Metamorphosis

Question 0

What does the train represent

Answer 0

Rebirth

Question 1

What does the apple represent

Answer 1

Decay

Question 2

What does the rotten food represent

Answer 2

Devolution

Question 3

What does the cleaning woman represent

Answer 3

Enlightened

Question 4

What do the lodgers represent

Answer 4

Society

Question 5

What does Mr. Samsa represent

Answer 5

Kafka’s real father

Question 6

How can Kafka’s novels be described

Answer 6

Enigmatic

Question 7

What are all of Kafka’s works assumed to be

Answer 7

Autobiograpicalc

Question 8

Kafka was Czech but what language did he write in

Answer 8

German

Question 9

How did Kafka carry out most of his relationships

Answer 9

Via Letter

Question 10

How did Kafka die

Answer 10

Tuberculosis

Question 11

What did Kafka settle on after studying chemistry and literature

Answer 11

Law

Question 12

Name two other works by Kafka

Answer 12

The trial and castle

Question 13

Explain three phases of Grete

Answer 13

First she takes care of Gregor, second she stops helping him, third she grows into a grown woman after his death

Question 14

Explain the family dynamic in Kafka’s life and the effect it had on his literature

Answer 14

His father never accepted anything he did which caused Franz to hate himself. This is shown in metamorphosis

Question 15

Cite and explain to animals or inanimate objects that Kafka wrote about

Answer 15

Apple- symbolizes the death of gregor and downfall of humans in the bibles

Door- symbolizes isolation from his family

Question 16

What is the significance of the cleaning woman

Answer 16

She brings new life to the family by ridding them of Gregor

Question 17

Why did Kafka not name the bug

Answer 17

Kafka didnt name the bug because he didn’t want the readers to think of it as a specific type of bug. He called it a vermin to show much of a nuisance he was to the family and the dread he brought.

Question 18

How is the story about society and its inability to accept everyone

Answer 18

Gregor turns into a giant bug and immediately begins to see the changes in his family. His father began to shun him first. Whether he was a bug or not, he was still a part of the family and his family never treated him that way with the exception of Grete for part of the book. The cleaning lady didn’t hesitate to get rid of him either. Kafka makes this just like real life because people didn’t accept him for the sole reason that he was different. Even though he was different, doesn’t mean he should be treated differently

Question 19

How does Gregor become dehumanized

Answer 19

Gregor becomes dehumanized in many ways more than just the actually transformation of a human to a bug. The dehumanization is described through the changes is Gregor’s personality and the changes in everyone’s character around him as a result of his transformation. As time goes on, not only does the family not accept him, but he also begins to not accept himself. He looks at himself as a nuisance and as he is holding the family back. He begins to alienate himself from the family As a result of this.