What was I thinking when I left Kermit alone with a Kafka book, of course he would get inspired. This frog is begging for new ways to be seen and we're having some trouble with him right now. Kermit thinks he's been through the metamorphosis and won't come off the ceiling, how did he even get up there? Kermit decided he doesn't want to be a frog, he wants to be something more like a spider. Is this the thanks I get for raising your green lima bean body?
I have read this story before, I did a Kafka course back in 2019 I think, I remember the story being one of the most original stories I had read just by the fact that Kafka writes in such a different way and he's very expressive and melancholic and I think he speaks for all of us when he turned a character into a bug to escape his responsibilities, I mean I've tried less?
Metamorphosis is about a man, Gregor, who works and lives at home to support his family (father, mother and sister). He describes his life as boring and repetitive, and he is not very happy with life. One morning he wakes up feeling heavier than usual. He does not get out of bed, and can barely move. Gregor generally feels strange, and when he realizes a moment later that he has turned into a giant insect, it does not really feel much better.
Then his family, begins to wonder why he won't come out of his room, when he has missed the bus several times. They are worried, but when they see what has become of him, a distaste builds up. They are hopeful at first, and the sister sneaks in with food every day, but when they realize that he probably won't get better, they give up.
It is a miserable story, it's anxiety filled and it drowns in depression. Gregor hates his life before the transformation and he hates it after. His life never becomes easier and he is never truly appreciated for who he is, instead he is always tied down by a new weight in his life and way for him to not be able to proceed forward.
There are so many themes represented in this, the most interesting one for me is just the limit there is for sympathy. I think it's a pretty good example for real life because people will only care for so long before they run out of the patience, much like Gregors sister.
His family goes from trying to understand to deciding on how to get rid of him.
The book is quite sad, I wouldn't recommend it if your heart is weak like mine because you're going to be there suddenly trying to save a fiction insect. Other than that I love Kafkas work and this one is one of the better ones as well.
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