Metamorphosis Surrealism Essay

The novella Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka revolves around a character named Gregor who wakes up one morning not in his usual form, he awakes as an insect. He is unsure of how he has become in this shape and struggles for acceptance. He hides in his room unable to see his family, this novella shows surrealism, Gregors want for existentialism, and even is one giant allegory. Throughout this novella or story there are many points of a surreal reality, or surrealism through the art of Gregors transformation. Readers must use imagination to understand some of this read, to feel Gregor. It’s an escape from reality, in the first section it says “He would have used his arms and hands to push himself up: but instead of them he only had all those little
Existentialism is the idea of saying one has the ability to choose his own life, makes his own choices. Gregor is unable to feel as if he can do this. But in section one, he says “If I didn’t have my parents to worry think about I’d have given in my notice a long time ago, I’d have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents debt to him- another five or six years I suppose – that’s definitely what I’ll do.”(Kafka 8). These lines show how Gregor has a desire to go off and be on his own but he feels too obligated to stay with his parents. He is stuck under control of others, with a copious amount of responsibility. He has the desire for existentialism but he does not show the traits