The Historical Interpretation of the Metamorphosis

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The historical interpretation of The Metamorphosis Nikki I want give a historical interpretation of The Metamorphosis written by Austrian writer Franz Kafka. The strange story, which begins with a traveling salesman, Gregon Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect-like creature, attracted me and also confused me when I first read the article. The Chinese translation of The Metamorphosis is included in the Chinese senior high school textbook as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. I think the reason why Kafka wrote absurdist fiction like The Metamorphosis is due to the history background. He lived in a period when the Austro-Hungarian empire was about to collapse, so he experienced various of social contradictions, especially when he worked at a insurance company and got the opportunity to know some disabled and poor workers .He realized that the improvised people had to pay price to the rich; therefore, the lower-class cannot control their own density by themselves. Kafka created The Metamorphosis which reflected and denied the whole society from his personal and humanistic perspective. This impossible transformation only happens in the literatures, but this was what Kafka tried to tell the readers - people at that time were tend to be a sort of "inhuman" which obviously is an abstract concept. Being in a society like that, people became numb and mechanized. In such a historical background, the societal atmosphere was so powerful that citizens cannot fight against it. To sum up, in my opinion, it was the history that influenced the society and the society had a lot effect on Kafka. That is why The Metamorphosis was

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