Metamorphosis: Based on Kafka’s life
Introduction
Metamorphosis written by novelist Franz Kafka was published in 1915, it is said that it is greatly based on the author’s life and therefore on the environment in which it developed. Kafka was born within a family of Jewish merchants as the firstborn son and trained in a German cultural environment. His father Hernann Kafka had achieved a comfortable economic position through an advantageous marriage, because of this he could pay for a good training at the firstborn at a German school in Prague. Having finished high school in 1901.
His father forced him to study law, matter for which he never felt the least interest and ended up a doctorate in law in 1906. However, the university years left Kafka time to cultivate their philosophical and literary hobbies. At the end of their studies, I work in various law firm and since 1908, in a Prague Insurance Company, where they perform their tasks with great efficiency and punctuality, coming to deserve a promotion;However, he completely lacked professional ambition. The boring employment (which would not definitely abandon until 1920, because of its serious health deterioration) was occupied only by the mornings.
Developing
Thanks to this I could dedicate the afternoons and nights to literature, his true passion. It is through the aspects of Kafka’s life as those mentioned above and the relevant fragments of his work metamorphosis, which will answer the next question, Gregorio Samsa is a reflection of the author’s life? In addition to discussing in this work the multiple symbols present in history and the methods used by the author to provide it with some more realism. From this point, the question raised in the introduction which is Gregorio Samsa is a reflection of its author’s life will be answered?
To answer this question, various textual quotes of the work will be used that will be compared to various aspects of the author’s life, which is why without further delay the following quotes are presented. "This getting up soon," he thought, "makes one break. men have to sleep. Other travelers live like Pachás ". If I, for example, throughout the morning I return to the pension to clean the orders I have achieved, these gentlemen are still sitting taking breakfast. That could try with my boss, at that time I would go to the street. Who knows, otherwise, if it wouldn’t be the best for me. If I didn’t have to dominate my parents.
I would have fired a long time ago, I would have introduced me to the boss and my opinion would have told him with all my soul. He’d have fell down of the table! Yes, it is a strange custom to sit on the table and, from that height, talk down with the employee who, in addition, because of the boss’s deafness, has to get close. As can be seen in the first paragraph of the event Gregorio Samsa is an extremely efficient and punctual man with his work compared to his classmates, characteristics which we could appreciate in the introduction shares with its author.
However, he also shares with this the lack of professional ambition as we could appreciate in the second paragraph of the appointment and that both Kafka and Gregorio detest their work, but they cannot stop doing them, since both are forced for some reason to some reasonCarry them out, which is linked to her parents, since Kafka was forced by her father to carry out laws and doctorate in law while Gregorio was obliged to pay her father’s debt to her boss, they also hate bothHis respective Kafka authority figure to his father and Gregorio to his boss.
He is not well, the mother told the attorney while the father spoke to the door, he is not well, believe me, sir proxy. How did Gregor go to lose a train! The boy has nothing more than the business in his head. It almost dislikes that I never leave in the afternoon;Now he has been in the city for eight days, but he spent every afternoon at home. There he is, sitting with us at the table and reads the newspaper quietly or studies trains schedules. For him it is already a distraction to do marquetry jobs. For example, in two or three afternoons a small frame has carved, you will be amazed at how beautiful it is, you are hung in there, in the room.
As soon as open Gregor will see it right away. In this event, the fact that Gregorio is an extremely dedicated man to his work is highlighted and thereAuthor, and like this he also has a passion, but while that of the author is his literature that of his is the marquetry devoting both in his free time of the afternoons and in the case of the author until the nights in his truepassions and they are likely to try to maintain such a good performance in their work so as not to bother their authority figures.
And to have free time to use it in their passions. «What a hard profession I have chosen! A day in and day also travel. Professional efforts are much greater than in the same warehouse of the city, and this bustle of traveling, being aware of the train junction, bad and undone food, a constantly changing human relationship, never lasting, never lasting, which never becomes cordial. Let everything go to the devil!»In this appointment you can see the feelings of Gregorio Samsa for his work feelings which we could presume were the ones that led him to his metamorphosis.
And it is that possessing such a demanding job and that I force you to have a very moved life, full of responsibilities, bad eating habits and almost zero quality human contact, in addition to the problems presented later in history with your family are whatThey led him to feel like a giant insect without value, these feelings are a reflection of what the author felt for his work and for what Ruiza, Fernández, & Tamaro: “He ordered his intimate friend and literary advisor Max Brod thatwill burned all his manuscripts after his death ". On the other hand, Gregorio’s metamorphosis is most likely a reference to the disease that Kafka suffered.
Which was tuberculosis according to Ruiza & Fernández: "The disease forced Kafka to spend long seasons in various sanatoriums", eventually it would be the cause of his death and the reason why he would end up abandoning his work as well as metamorphosis with Gregory. Among the most important symbols of the work is metamorphosis, this represents Gregory’s feelings and as he saw himself, the furniture represented his last connection with his humanity, the apple represents his father’s hatred towards him, the room of the room ofGregorio represents a space in which he feels safe, but in which he is at the same time deprived of his freedom.
conclusion
The damaged food symbolizes the bad food fields acquired by Gregorio, the family that wanted it only to produce the money, but once stopped doing so they stopped dying representing hypocrisy and unfair, etc. Finally, as it has been observed throughout the work, the author used aspects of his daily life, but with certain mutated characteristics to give rise to a genre called the literature of the absurdity. As Gregorio Samsa could be observed throughout the work if he acts as a faithful reflection of his author’s life, which decided to capture various aspects of his life.
Including his emotions to give his story with a great touch of realism mixed with certain modified aspects of reality to give rise to the creation of the literature of the absurd that characterizes this work and that allows us to better understand the author’s emotions betterIn addition to being stuffed with symbolisms which further enrich their history by becoming even more realistic, such as metamorphosis that refer to a sentimental transformation instead of physics how you can think about the first instance in the first instance.
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