The paper focuses on the depression of the novella's protagonist, who suffers from a painful dream which changes him into a horrible vermin. This transformation disturbed the whole family and self, giving us a modernistic vision of the upcoming world. The upcoming modern world metamorphosises a family man into a modern man who leads a natural life to a modern mechanical life. The single transformation of the protagonist changes the whole family's notion of him who loves his own family before the transformation. This novella exhibits the modern world that subtracts love and happiness and, moving fast towards an unrealistic modernistic ideology, symbolises a full-fledged machine man. The modernistic vision we face today is faced by the author and the protagonist as a shadow. Kafka shadows the reality of the modernistic world, full of alienation, depression, and absurdity. Though it is fiction and does not tell anything directly, it remembers reality through the protagonist's metamorphosis. Kafka lensed him in the eyes of Gregor, the protagonist, and symbolically proposed the characteristics of the modern man through the transformation. So, this transformation would move the people from the late 19th and 20th centuries to the upcoming nuclear world.
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Volume 1 | Issue 3 | Year 2023 | Article Id: LLL-V1I3P101 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/LLL-V1I3P101
A Sense of Depression of the Protagonist in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Study
F. Flora Jannet
| Received | Revised | Accepted | Published |
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| 16 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2023 | 07 Dec 2023 | 30 Dec 2023 |
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F. Flora Jannet. “A Sense of Depression of the Protagonist in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Study .” DS Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 1-8, 2023.
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Metamorphosis, Depression, Alienation, Transformation, Kafka, Modernistic.
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