A Portrait of Franz Kafkas Life in his Fictional Story, Metamorphosis

A Portrait of Franz Kafkas Life in his Fictional Story, MetamorphosisFranz Kafka seems to have had a tough time ontogenesis up with his fuck off, who was app arntly a domineering, unapproachable man. A few historic period before Franzs untimely death, he wrote a long garner to his induce in an attempt to address many of the lingering issues which had plagued their relationship. He may have tried through his fictional writing to reach his father prior to the garner, using a kind of metaphor code. Franz Kafka became other characters representing himself in his fiction. In The Metamorphosis, his character, whose name is Gregor Samsa, becomes a giant beetle as the get out of an unexplained transformation at the very beginning. The fact that the author is really the main character is so cleverly disguised and the details so carefully presented that this encoded message becomes an entertaining literary work in its make right. While many of Kafkas short stories, e.g. The Judgment, A Country Doctor, appear to be vignettes, The Metamorphosis is to a greater extent or less a surreal self-portrait of Franzs spirit and his troubled relationship with his family. The concepts of psychological abuse, entrapment and escape are ongoing themes in Kafkas work, and The Metamorphosis contains several examples that specifically relate to his father.The main character takes the authority as caretaker of the family, is transformed into a bug and left to eventually break-dance in his room. In The Metamorphosis, the main character awakens from troubled dreams into an even more troubled reality. At the beginning, the rain beating against the window of his room gives him a depressed, melancholy feeling. This sets the tone for the entire story.According to Franz Kafka, his father c... ...or no move on his father and their relationship, as he still felt compelled to pen a long personal letter plainly stating his feelings. Although Franz intended for the letter to reach his f ather, it was never sent to him instead it was returned to Franz by his mother. Ironically, even in his straightforward attempt, Franz had failed, though, in a sense his father did read the letter by reading most of his sons work. The fact that he died only a few years later, long before his father did, seems to have been spookily foreshadowed in The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka seems to have thought that some of the most liberating occurrences are those that are beyond ones control.Works CitedKafka, Franz. Letter to His Father (1919) Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka The Complete Stories. Ed. Nahum N. Glatzer. N.Y. Schocken Books Inc., 1971 89-139.