"The Metamorphosis" by Kafka as a social criticism

Society often works against itself in one way or an other. 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 carve up into into different sections, with Gregor

representing the working man at the time, and his family

representing all the other kinds of people throughout society.

        This story shows how Gregor has worked for his family in the

past, and how he subconsciously thought he had control over them.

He works at an intolerable job of hard work to support his family,

and gets trivial respect for this. It shows what happens to him

when he stops working for them, he transforms into a huge

cockroach. He is rejected by his family, and he is not cared for

properly which results in his death. Following Gregors death is a

gleeful ending, which eventually implies that the cycle will be

repeated, though this time through his sister.

        It is apparent even in the send-off sentence As Gregor awoke

one morning from uneasy dreams, he effectuate 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, push life by quitting it all.



His

transformation could mean how society can discriminate 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 states Oh, God what an

exhausting job Ive picked (P862 Ph4). He feels that he must

work though. He feels that his family is unable(predicate) of supporting

themselves. His mother has asthma, his father is old, and his

sister is very young.

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