3/6/2024 0 Comments Metamorphosis manga summary![]() Communication channels are entirely and excruciatingly severed, though he is not spared the double torture: for he is still able to wholly understand and interpret the world he is so harshly, it seems, excluded from. In his "current sad and revolting form", Gregor is reluctantly debarred from the very possibility of human affection and relationability. In Kafka's short story, the sense of alienation, deep-rooted anxiety, and horror, are made to inhabit the same space of the preposterous and counter-rational in some visually compelling ways, it is reminiscent of Polanski's farcical Carnage. ![]() ![]() A family, therefore, that through a peculiar warping of tightly intertwined happenings, appears to have got infested with the most contradictory impulses of human nature: a sense of prevailing estrangement and underlying resentfulness bitterness alternated by sporadic bursts of guilt, affection or emotion a survival instinct that turns family into enemy. Gregor's uncanny predicament, recurrently referred to as "his present state", well, it complicates matters exceedingly for Gregor and his family, who had gratefully though perhaps in a mode of detached consciousness relied on his income for a long time. Of course, what they tend towards thematically is the over-arching and intensely annihilating forces at play quintessentially impersonal and traceable to an incontestable authority, though allusively also of personal origin. The situation itself, and the build-up of tension, come across as utterly surreal. Indeed, the chief clerk absurdly shows up and bluntly showers the family with accusations about the nature of Gregor's professional failings, merely on the grounds that he had not presented himself at work that morning. Gregor is portrayed as being "condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly suspicious at the slightest shortcoming". Though overly committed and devoted to his salesman job, the sense of perennial insufficiency prevails. Fancy waking up one fine day to find yourself in quite the expressionistic state: "transformed in bed into a horrible vermin"! Nonsense, huh? That's what Gregor Samsa thought, too.
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