Kafka Modernism

Tons of works have been made out to express a certain point or moral in a persons life. Kafka's Metamorphosis pinpoints many morals in everyday life, has concepts of existentialism, and humor. Throughout Kafka's Metamorphosis, it is obvious Kafka threw out some morals for the reader to adopt as something to relate to their own lives. In on one of the very first pages of his story, Kafka blatantly shows that even after Gregor's shift from human to pest, he was basically a vermin all along. Samsa has gotten nothing out of his life, has nothing to show for, and his metamorphosis to a worthless bug makes this even more clear. Gregor cannot be understood anymore by his family and "although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because his ears had gotten used to them" (Kafka 6). Samsa still thinks his family love him as a son and money tree. The key to this sentence is that he has never been important to them for anything other than money. They have never been able to hear his words and needs, just their own. Another moral that is prominent is that if you don't change your daily cycles, to will fade away into nothingness. Throughout the whole story Gregor has ONLY been working and his family mooches off his money that he suffers through because of THEIR debt. Then, as he slowly dies because of the apple, his life form fades away, and his family moves on, understanding that if they don't get off their lazy butts, they will end up like him. When the family finally gets jobs, this happen: "Bent far over the light, the mother sewed fine undergarments for a fashion shop. The sister, who had taken on a job as a salesgirl, in the evening studied stenography and French, so as perhaps to obtain a better position later on" (Kafka 18). Once the family has moved on they realize they need to change their habits and get jobs to support themselves. The last moral taught in this work is that one needs to stand up for themselves,or else one will turn into 'Gregor'. This is to say that if we do not stand up for ourselves, we will get used. This is exactly what happens to Gregor and later on; his sister. His parents are basically vampires in a way: When his sister is chosen: "And it was something of a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when at the end of their journey their daughter stood up first and stretched her young body" (Kafka 27). They are vampires who suck on the life of other people. They used up all of Gregor, and are now moving on to their young, loving, daughter. Gregor didn't stand up for himself and his wants, so he was used and wasted. Morals are everywhere, even in a story about a man transforming into a bug, where you least expect them.

Kafka is interesting in his wording throughout his stories.