¶ … waking up one morning and suddenly you are a bug. Last night, when you went to sleep you were an ordinary man. Today, you're a bug. Gregor Samsa does just that, and suddenly his life is thrown completely off track. No longer is he the sole breadwinner for his mother, father and sister. He is now the burden that they have been to him. His mundane job as a traveling salesman has been replaced with the confusing life he lives as a bug. It is this image of the bug he has become that is the focus of Frank Kafka, and it is the bug that represents Gregor's ultimate desire to no longer bear the responsibility of a family, and what eventually brings his family's true character to light. Gregor is not the narrator in the story, but the narrator is right along with Gregor through his discoveries of his bug form. The description of the form is so blunt, and precise that you cannot mistake him for imagining himself as a bug, when perhaps he really is not one. His "numerous little legs which never stopped waving in all directions and which he could not control in the least" seem to represent his life, his career and his responsibilities. He is unable to control his own life because of his family and the care of them that has fallen on his shoulders. His body is described as being large and difficult to maneuver which represents Gregor's emotions. This idea is supported even more when his father attacks him with apples; one of the apples pierces his skin (his heart or feelings), which is so painful to him that he blacks out. He is dealt a...
When she nourishes him daily, he hides his hideous form in order to not offend her. I see this as Gregor's way of shielding her from the ugliness of reality. Again it is also his way of deriving pleasure from pleasing his family, for he enjoys seeing her seem thankful, despite the discomfort the sheet causes him. What causes him the most discomfort is how much his appearance still bothers her, when he feels that he is the same person inside. However, Gregor himself is the ugliness he is saving her from, and his increasingly bug-like wants and needs are also beginning to surface.
Life It is important to acquire goodness in order to understand the meaning and purpose of life. Distressed and hopeless people do not consider or think about the meaning of life. For them, the meaning of life becomes inappropriate when their existence is at stake and when their life is a mixture of worries and perplexities. On the other hand, people who are not desperate mull over the meaning of life.
strong issue with the ideas of David Benatar and James Lenman (1997), which I regard as simply absurd, or more likely a case of academics striking a pose and writing in a sarcastic and cynical manner in hopes of getting a rise out of their readers. If the latter is true, they certainly succeeded with me, since I cannot accept the notion that non-existence is always preferable to existence
Life A number of literary, philosophical, psychological, religious and other writers are of the view that the subject of 'the meaning of life' forms one among the most central issues experienced by people. Tolstoy (Rowlands) claims that science is unable to provide assistance in this regard. While it can describe what life is, it is incapable of describing its meaning. It is able to explain the things in this world and
.....deathbed, Morrie reflects on his life, and relays several messages about the meaning or purpose of life. Ironically, one of the main messages of the story is that life does not necessarily have a greater or cosmic meaning. Meaning is found in what is immediately before us, in the day-to-day existence and especially in relationships with others. Life's meaning is found in accepting life for what it is rather than
Life Philosophers much older and wiser than I have wrestled with the thorny question of life's meaning, and risen from the mat covered with scratches and welts, but still without answers. The questions regarding life's meaning plague mankind at times. During times of prosperity and success, culture and man's conscious is understandably silent on the issue. There is no reason to struggle with the weighty matters of my purpose on
Life Experience of Personal Care Assistants in Anchorage: Cross-Cultural Caring of Older Adults: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study The increase in racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and specifically in Anchorage Alaska and the compelling evidence of ethnic health disparities (Smedley, Stith and Nelson, 2002) makes the incorporation of ethnogeriatric perspective into the practice of geriatric health care of critical importance. Reported are the "federally designated racial and ethnic groups…[of]…"American
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