A World Out Of Time Essay, Research Paper

A vermin is a terrible thing to think of yourself. A bug is a slimy, stinky, and disgusting creature that eeks it s way through life. In the novel, the Metamorphosis, the main character Gregor finds himself changed into a vermin one ungrateful morning. I find this irrational occurrence hard to believe. Gregor never changed into a bug physically but mentally is another story.

Let s say that a person was to wake up one morning changed into a bug. Would that make any sense in our society? The logical way to look at it is to say he was changed mentally into a bug . For example, Gregor states in the book, Don t stay in bed being useless and I hope I don t miss the train to work. Would a human being transformed into a bug be worried about his job? Boil it down to the facts, and you can logically see that Gregor couldn t have changed into a bug, but he most certainly could have felt like a bug.

The author of the book, Franz Kafka, had his share of problems with his father; the issues seem to match identically with Gregor s problems in the Metamorphosis. It is an odd coincidence that drills the question; does the author project himself through the book? The answer to that question is yes. Once again, look at this issue logically; it would make perfectly good sense to write out your problems in a story to tell the world without really saying so. Why didn t Kafka just flat out say it was himself who was insane and suffering from a deep-seated destructive urge against the mother image (pg.157 of Franz Kafka s Metamorphosis as Death and Resurrection Fantasy by Peter Dow Webster)? All the problems he was feeling brought such insecurity that Gregor transformed into a bug; a mask that he wears in order to cover the true meaning.

To understand the whole cover-up with the bug is to have common sense. Logic is what all human being have within themselves. Here s an example of logic, (pg.149 of Franz Kafka s Metamorphosis Kafka s Fantasy of Punishment by Hellmuth Kaiser) of course the Metamorphosis of the son-viewed psychologically-does not signify an external event but an internal change in the direction of drive. Science fiction is can be fun, but I prefer non-fiction. Yes, Gregor was hurt psychologically because of his father that we know, but I know for a fact that he never changed into a vermin. The idea is so obscured to think that frame of mind; one would have to be in the frame of mind as Gregor was, a dream state of mind.