Question

What have you learned about Kafka's life and about the era in which he lived that helps you understand The Metamorphosis better?

Answer 1

Plato Answer

Step-by-step explanation:

Your answer might include these points:

Kafka's strained relationship with his father is reflected in Gregor Samsa's relationship with his insensitive father.

Gregor's job as a traveling salesman is tiring and monotonous, which echoes Kafka's job and the increase in industrialization during his lifetime.

Kafka lived amongst Czech-speaking people, yet he was more comfortable speaking German. As a nonreligious German Jew, Kafka always felt alienated from those around him. This sense of alienation is reflected in Gregor's isolation.

The novella is an absurdist story, which shows how deeply Kafka was influenced by the literary and artistic movements taking place around him.

Answer 2

Franz Kafka wrote the metamorphosis at first because he felt the need to express the confrontation of man with the oppression of a modern world (At that time it was the outbreak of the First World War), and as such the history of metamorphosis originated as a story about the unbearable weight of responsibility he had to express that feeling.

Explanation:

Franz Kafka was a writer born in Prague, his works and writings were influential in existentialism, the philosophy of the absurd and other literary currents.

He also directly influenced writers who read his works thanks to his crude, unusual and absurd style.