Metamorphosis Dysfunctional Family

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Showing the reality of a dysfunctional family, Franz Kafka’s novella Metamorphosis exemplify existentialists’ ideology of the harsh world that people live in, one where everyone must act by himself or herself to achieve his or her inner desires and true role in life as time dissolves reality and personality. Existentialists believe in the human self, which means that one must act accordingly to what he or she believes to find himself or herself. Most existentialists favor “extreme individualism, an emphasis on freedom and responsibility” (Solomon). Everyone act based on his or her own belief; similar to the ideology, Kafka exemplify this ideology through Gregor’s method of living: as the provider for the family. Initially, however, instead of freedom, Kafka emphasis responsibility as Gregor feels the need to support his dysfunctional family that separate themselves from each other. Only through the metamorphosis does Gregor truly find himself and his freedom. …show more content…
A famous existentialists, Friedrich Nietzsche claims that “[human] go ‘beyond good and evil… towards a more creative… prospective’ (Solomon). Instead of statements, existentialist views the world literally from differing point of view. In Metamorphosis, Gregor’s realization of his usefulness and role in the family comes from him transforming into a “horrible vermin” (Kafka I) in which he then have the freedom of exploration. Kafka depicts the Gregor dysfunctional life through a solution of good and evil as the inhuman Gregor realizes there is “longer any point in running” (Kafka II) away from life; that he is who he wants to be. Kafka’s idea of acceptance and understanding resonance as Gregor comprehends his position in the
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