How Does Kafka Use Anxiety In The Metamorphosis
A man turns into a cockroach, is rejected by those nearest to him, and suddenly dies with an apple on his back. The plot of “The Metamorphosis” is just that. Or is it? The story is filled with emotion and modernist concepts. The three A’s of modernism, anxiety, ambiguity, and alienation, show up prominently in Kafka’s writing. Anxiety oozes out of “The Metamorphosis.” The story reads like a bad dream. First of all, the situation itself is anxiety inducing. For many, nothing would be more horrifying than to wake up as a cockroach. Anxiety in the story only gets worse as it continues. Gregor must deal with the fact that his family must now support themselves without him and that their lives are already changing. Kafka emphasizes this