The Metamorphosis: Society Split Into Different Sections
Beginning of paper
Society often works against itself in one way or another. In
reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka one could presume the work to be a
social criticism. Throughout this story Kafka shows how society can be
split into different sections, with Gregor representing the working man at
the time, and his ....
Middle of paper
.... Gregor awoke one
morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a gigantic
insect" (P862, Ph1) that Kafka meant something underneath the surface.
Awakening from uneasy dreams could mean awakening from an uneasy, labored
life by quitting it all. His transformation could mean how society can
compare him to a cockroach for his giving up on them and treat him as if
he was less than human.
Gregor has obviously had a life of hard labor at a job that he
finds to be unbearable; as he ....
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