I’ve read the Metamorphosis in high school. It is one of the most impressive,
great books that’s I ‘ve ever read. (Since I rarely read English books and
often feel reluctantly to read books in English because English is my second
language.) It had been about four years since I finished the book, but I still
remember what was happening in the book, which is unusual because I usually
forgot everything after I finished the books. So Metamorphosis had always been
a special book of mine.
When I read it for the second time for this
class, I felt oppressed, like being overwhelmed by giant rocks in the chest. I
felt like being a bug. And I felt sympathy towards Gregor and also Kafka. It
was said that the life of Gregor is the portrayal of Kakfa himself. Kafka did a
brilliant job in depicting the psychology of every character. The fear of both
Gregor and the family after Gregor turned into a bug, the peacefulness of the
family accepting the fact, the shamefulness and panic of Gregor, the disgust of
the family, the despair of Gregor and the relief of the family. Gregor and the
family members should be loving each other. However, his father treated him
only as a tool for him to pay the debt. When he becomes a bug, and doesn’t have
the ability to earn a living, the family considered him a burden. When he died,
they didn’t even feel sad, other than that, they went on a picnic. It reflects
the cruelty that in the capitalist society, the relationship between people and
people is so week. Kafka uses the transformation of the human to bug to
symbolize the corruption of the capitalism that had always been ruining the
humanity.
However, I don’t like Murakami’s Samasa in love, which is considered a
reversal of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Murakami
also named his character Gregor Samsa. I think this story has too much shadow
of Kafaka’s. Also, I think his story is
not that attractive or worth deep thinking than Kafaka’s.
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