Kafka

I am not sure exactly how my perspective on the Metamorphosis has changed. I try to distance the story from the author. After the movie, it became harder to do that. It was obvious that Kafka was both sick and a whiner. The movie showed how Kafka would take little things in his mind and blow them out of proportion until the truth was obscured. He took the dredge of his family and his work life and wrote it down into the Metamorphosis. It is for this reason that I don't feel that he is a genius, or even pretty good. His book is just a linguistic complaint about life and how terrible it is and what a drag his family is on him. It is well written, but even Hitler's speech are long and beautifully composed complaints. Complaints have become increasingly more common since the fall of man in the garden.
The moral is that life is one big rat race where everyone scrambles to make as much money as they can. He shows how pathetic humanity has become. He feels that everyone is just trying to take advantage of everyone else. This is especially true for families. Kafka's experiences with his own father make him feel that families are no longer places of love or security. The parents just want to use their children as workers. The same is true of the other human Institutions. The companies and governments can only surcice and thrive by using the labors of the common people. They no this. So they try and keep the men down so that they can keep on living. Kafka's time in the accounting firm, which he blames on his parents, is the basis of his belief that humanity has been subjected into a permanent working role in modern society. This is contrary to what god wanted, and what he believes. He knows that now humanity is just one more species of draft animal, but that they should be something more.
The glorified work horse can be seen between the similarities between Kafka and Gregor. Gregor is forced into working for a company that he doesn't like because of the debts of his family, a feeling that mirrors Kafka's belief that his family could have kept him out of the insurance office. Both our godless men who still have a basic belief in the rights of man and that men have at least a higher purpose than money. If I were to write an AP question it would be; Sometimes Authors use their characters as cameos. Show how Gregor is a representation of Kafka and the time perriod inwhich he lived.