Metamorphosis, Analysis and Context
Gregorio Samsa was the only one in the family who worked and the money he charged was used to feed his family, all of which stayed with his job. When one day Gregorio Samsa suddenly becomes a fearsome creature, he begins to worry not about how he could return to normal, but for how his family would do to live without financial resources, they would be forced to go out to work for resourcesGregorio contributed to them. After becoming a bug, Gregorio Samsa received the care of his sister, Gretesamsa, who served wet food or milk so that he could live inside his room without having the need to leave “only when he had already reached the door warned what whatHe had attracted her to her, had been the smell of something edible, because there was a shield full of sweet milk in which bulls of bread swam ".(Kafka, 1915)
As the days passed, all their family members went to work, leaving alone in the room, sometimes looking at the landscape outside the window, sometimes hitting the wall to play by itself, and little by littleHis character became an insect. In this way, his sister could not take care of him with the frequency he had at first.
One day, he went out to the kitchen in search of food and was discovered by his father, who pursued and hit him, who had thrown an apple, which caused Gregorio Samsa to infect his back by the block and returned to hisfourth. As the days passed, his health deteriorated more and more, in addition to the lack of care of his sister, caused his life to be shortened drastically, adding the infection he had recently acquired. When one day he listened to his sister Gretesamsa playing her violin in the living room for the new tenant of her house, Gregorio Samsa left and wanted to invite her sister to play her violin in the room, but the tenants who had not seen GregorioSamsaen that state, panicly and immediately threatened Samsa’s family saying that they had imprisoned him, leading them to refuse to pay the rental of housing.
Grete Samsa realized that she was no longer her old brother, since her he used to protect her family instead of loading them with this weight and stress for their simple presence in the house. Finally, Gregorio Samsa returned to his room and died ill, although in a certain way, calm because he would no longer cause problems to all his relatives during those difficult times in which he lived. When his family found his body, after they do not respond, easily with a feeling of coldness they let him go without any remorse. For its part, the work of the SR. Samsa began to bear fruit, allowing Samsa’s economy to improve in a great way. After Gregorio’s death, they managed to move to a larger home, and start projecting for a better future, as well as looking for a fiance who asks for the hand of the young Grete Samsa, allowing the family to grow as time progresses.
Why can members of the Gregorio family treat Gregorio Samsa in this way? He became an insect later, he has become a dismantling, a corner, because he is the only one who can work. Since I don’t work, so I feel sensitive Gregory family about Gregorio Samsa, so he took Gregorio Samsa in his place in the family, lower, has finally arrived in Gregorio family no longer matters that if he has Gregorio Samsa or not. Because they discovered that he had earned more money than before, and Gregorio Samsa died so. And also, the 21st century is different that now, the man of the twentieth century, due to the problems derived from the economy, made money more important than man.
The first third of the twentieth century was characterized by great tensions and clashes between European powers. For its part, World War I (1914 and 1918) and the Russian Revolution in October 1917 encouraged hopes in a different economic regime for the owner. Those who had had great difficulties in the personal economic advancement of each one, during international tees, the global economy was devastated, which caused money to be more valuable than the life of any common person, generating insensitivity in the human society of the century of the centuryXX.
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