Gregor has lost almost every part of his life that made him human. Before this metamorphosis, all Gregor did or thought about doing was work. Now he has no way to work, and he has completely given up thinking about it. He can no longer get food for himself. Grete has to bring it to him. Gregor likes spoiled and old food rather than normal human fresh food. His favorite drink of milk now tastes disgusting to him. Gregor now hides under a couch with a blanket when his sister enters the room. Without locks on his door, he is completely shut out from the world. The furniture that any human would use has now been taken out of his room. Gregor is currently as far from his human self as possible. His family is treating him completely like a monstrous vermin.
Gregor's loss of humanity throughout this section is evident. There are numerous reasons that will support this. First, Gregor will not eat regular human food any more. He even rejects his favorite drink, milk. Gregor only likes food that is expired or from the garbage. He is no longer eating like a real human. Second, he realizes that he cannot see the hospital that he, as a human, was tired of looking at. This causes him grief and makes him sad. He does not have any human abilities, such as vision. Third, he struggles to listen to any conversation made in the house. Gregor realizes that he cannot speak to anyone so he is obsessed with having someone to even listen to. He cannot show affection because he has no one to talk to. Fourth, Gregor feels guilty for not being able to talk and thank Grete for everything she has been doing for him, as he would have if he were human. He feels as if he is the worst brother in the whole world, and he that he is letting Grete down. Fifth, Gregor is upset when his mother and sister start taking the furniture out of his room. To him, that is one of his lasting memories when he was human and tries to save the picture of the woman with the boa. He cannot stand the idea of not have the room in which he has lived in for five years. Sixth, Gregor feels like and outcast, and does not realize it until he hears his mother's voice again. He then realizes how much he misses being human. He cannot communicate to any of his family members and feels lonely. Finally, Gregor feels like a hideous creature when his father comes home, finds Gregor, and chases Gregor back to his room, while throwing apples at Gregor. At this point, Gregor realizes how he is barely human anymore. He cannot function like a human and scares everybody he sees. He has no humanity or affection, and he is now just a vermin.
As Gregor's life continues to move on in the form of a vermin, he loses more and more of his humanity. First of all, he is drinking from a dish on the floor. Normal people do not eat off of the floor from a dish, then again he isn't human. He is an insect. Also, his once favorite drink, milk, is no longer considered edible. Gregor starts to climb on the walls and ceiling, finding complete amusement from it. He loses his humanity there as well. Although only basic, Gregor's slight shift in humanity changes his world. He is becoming more and more like an insect, when he should be worrying about returning to human form again. However, Gregor realizes once he returns to his normal state he will be treated also no different and return to the hum-drum of life as he knew it. As for a conclusion, I conclude that Gregor prefers being the "monstrous vermin" as far as Section 2 tells us. Gregor doesn't like working or having to take full responsibility for his family. Being the insect gives him an escape from it, even though it has its set backs. Maybe, by the end of the novella, Gregor will learn to assert himself and be able to return to his human form. That, or he will get crushes like the bug he is.
The more Book 2 progresses, the more Gregory moves away from being a human and towards being an insect. The first thing in the chapter that emphasizes this is that he wakes up at twilight, when most people would be going to sleep. Also, his family separates themselves from him by locking his doors and tiptoeing around. Nobody in the family treats Gregor like a human. They all see him as a beast. Even his sister, who now cares for him, does it for the family, not Gregor himself. She gives him table scraps and rotten food to eat, and, as a sign of his growing bestiality, he happy accepts these and turns away good food. Mr. Samsa will not even enter Gregory's room, Mrs. Samsa will only do so if she cannot see Gregory, and the only time Grete actually addressed Gregory personally is when she threatened him. She further demonstrates Gregory's transformation when she throws away the food he hasn't eaten and picks up his bowl with a rag, rather than her hand. Gregor's desire to be under the couch also shows his loss of humanity. Not only does it tell us that he likes small places like an insect would, but also that he is alienating himself from mankind because of his physical form. Because he has separated himself from humanity, Gregor's family does not even think to try to talk to him, and talks about him in secret, though they don't think he can understand them. The only way for Gregor to find out what's going on is to eavesdrop at the door. Gregor's family neglects him because of his repulsive appearance. They fail to see the slowly dying human inside. Grete exemplifies this when she runs to open the window in Gregor's room, and when she does not remove the sheet from over Gregor. He has officially been removed as a member of the family due to his ugliness and uselessness. Gregor again shows his physical loss of humanity when he finds pleasure in climbing the walls and hanging on the ceiling, as well as the deterioration of his vision. When Gregor was turned into an insect, he slowly lost his humanity both in his bestial behavior and in his removal from supporting his family in the terribly capitalistic society he lives in. However, I don't think Gregor's humanity was entirely intact even before his metamorphosis. This is shown by both his alienation from society, and of his lack of spirit and dignity. His transformation only puts these traits in a viewable, physical format.
Gregor has become accustom to being a bug; he goes through the same routine every day. Grete feeds him daily and she sets up a chair so he can sit by the window. He would silently participate in family conversations by listening through the doors in his room. Gregor still has human emotions. He feels shame and grief and he clings to his belongs that he does not want taken away from him. Inside, Gregor has human qualities, but because he is now a vermin he cannot express them like a human or act like a human. I think that Gregor is trying to stay the same person he was. He has difficulty doing this because he has to make so many necessary changes to adapt to his new body.
In book two Gregor is still stuck in his miserable insect state. Gregor's loss of humanity is recognized when his sister Grete and his mother start removing funiture from his room without his consent. Gregor is not given the choice of food to eat anymore. He liked milk and when his Grete left it for him he took one sip and stopped drinking it. From there on Grete brings a spread of food into his room on a newspaper twice a day. Gregor eats what he likes and leaves what he dislikes. He has his good days and his bad days with the food she brings him. Once again his father causes him to get a wound on his back from a thrown apple. He has no freedom now which most humans have freedom. Since he was transformed into a bug he is dehumanized by his father especially and has to remain in his room. He sleeps under the couch all night which doesn't seem comfortable at all which is another loss of humanity. It seems like Gregor is getting the hang of his new body but the rest of his family except his sister is not. It has gotten worse with his father and mother; they can't even stand the sight of him. At this point of this novella it seems to me that Gregor will be continuously treated as an alienated person and his father and mother will never get used to him.
Gregor's loss of humanity starts with his loss of taste for his favorite foods. He will only eat the old, inedible foods. He is treated like an animal because everyday his sister has to come in give him a bowl of water, which only he drinks out of, she has to pick up his leftovers with a cloth, and she sweeps up after him. Gregor hides himself under a sheet everyday Grete comes in to clean up. When his mother finally comes in and when she does see Gregor, she faints from horror. The father throws fruit at his own son. I believe that Gregor's metamorphosis is complete and he is a complete insect.
Gregor has lost almost all of his humanity in book 2. He is completely ignored by his family, and is only brought food by his sister. Even she is afraid to look at him! The way he is treated by his sister pretty much degrades him, and he is treated animalistically. His sister does bring him food, but she must bring it into his room whenever his parents are asleep, in fear of them being upset over the fact that Grete is bringing Gregor food. When Grete does visit Gregor, he feels obligated to hide under a sheet so she does not have to see him. Gregor is starting to get used to his new body and has found new sources of entertainment, such as climbing on the walls and ceilings. Gregor longs for more crawling space, but he also does not want his furniture to be taken from him. His mother and sister start moving furniture, piece by piece, out of Gregor's room. Even Gregor's mother recognized that maybe by removing his furniture, they were also removing his hope of being normmal again. Although this is her viewpoint, Grete thinks differently and insists on moving the furniture. Gregor realizes himself that he is losing his humanity, as he says that he barely remembers life as a human being. I think that Gregor will continue to lose his humanity until his family starts accepting him and treating him better (if that ever happens, that is).
Gregor loses alot of his humanity. He becomes more of a bug than a human. He eats like a bug. He chooses garbage, stinky cheese, and rotten vegetales over bread and milk. He also begins to forget more of his life as a human. He thinks that he can only hold onto that life through his room with furniture. Gregor also hides like a bug would do. He feels more comfortable being under the couch than anything else. He also has found new entertainment. He crawls around like a bug does. I believe that Gregor will soon almost forget completely what he it is like to live humanily with a bed and real food.
Gregor has experienced a tremendous loss of humanity in Book 2. No longer does he look towards the future, but he wryly reminisces about the past and the state of things long ago. He is robbed of human interaction on a daily basis; for example, his sister hurriedly leaves his food in the room as she tries to avoid him at all costs. Gregor has even become afraid of his own family and darts under the couch at the slightest sound of a key turning in the lock. However, Gregor yearns for a relationship as shown through his attempts to listen in on the conversations in the adjacent rooms. Those words are the only factors that are keeping him relatively thriving in his sequestered life. When he thinks about his family’s financial situation, he still feels guilty, though. Gregor has lost almost all of the characteristics that make up a human being, and he is merely just a robot who used to provide for his family. After all, his personal furniture has been cleared from his room and he is treated as some sort of specimen or pet, not a family member. His furniture was the last connection to his better days, and now that it is gone, I conclude that Gregor’s family will get rid of him or he will die somehow, especially from how repulsed his family behaves towards him and after reading the last line of the section.
Gregor has many losses of humanity throughout this section. One loss of humanity is when he is given a meal out of a bowl on the ground. This is a loss of humanity because usually pets or creatures that are not allowed to eat like humans eat on the ground. Another example of loss of humanity is when Gregor sleeps underneath the couch. This is a loss of humanity because pests and usually unwanted creatures sleep underneath couches. Gregor's loss of humanity is also portrayed by how he covers himself up with a sheet so his sister cannot see him. The last example is the fact the Grete and Mrs. Samsa are taking everything out of Gregor's room. This is an example of a loss of humanity because they are depriving Gregor of everything he once enjoyed. My conclusion is that Gregor is going to stay a bug and he is only going to get worse from now on.
Gregor starts to adapt to being a monstrous vermin in Book 2. First, he starts to like foods that seem rather repulsive to humans, and hate foods that are normal for humans to like. Some foods he cannot even stand the smell of, so he takes the foods he likes away from the foods that smell bad. Also, for recreation he likes climbing up the walls and onto the ceiling. His behavior starts to gradually change towards the behavior of an insect.
Book 2 further allows the reader insight into how Gregor is exponentially losing his humanity as he adjusts to his new lifestyle. While Gregor has already long since lost any means of communication with his family, they are now thoroughly convinced that he cannot understand them. Numerous examples of both physical and mental losses of humanity are also exhumed in this section. When his sister Grete brings him his once favorite drink, milk, he turns away in disgust, quickly realizing he does not remotely enjoy it in his current state. Instead, he soon finds that he extraordinarily enjoys half-rotten cheese, vegetables, and scraps that he had previously dunned inedible as a human. Physically, Gregor is gaining more and more control over his new body. To his amazement, he now has the capability of climbing the walls and ceiling of his room, which he uses for his sole source of entertainment. Moreover, Gregor's eyesight is rapidly decreasing; He cannot see the hospital he could once view clearly from his window. Also, due to his sister's suggestion, it dawns on Gregor that he would much prefer a room with no furniture, allowing him to freely excavate his "cave."
While there was previously little hope for Gregor to maintain a somewhat healthy lifestyle in Book 1, there is now absolutely no chance of Gregor regaining his humanity. He is steadily decreasing, both mentally and physically, into a true insect. What with the prevalent belief among the Samsa family that Gregor is an evil, pestulent vermin, and given Gregor's state of mind and physical condition, it can be assumed that he will eventually be killed for being a nuisance and a "pest."
Gregor has lost his humanity little by little throughout this section, but it adds up to a lot. Firstly, he eats scraps and leftover moldy foods that a regular human wouldn't touch. He also doesn't like the foods he once loved. Next, Gregor has become dehumanized by his family shutting him out. They are scared of him, shun him, and do not even attempt to talk to him. He hasn't had human contact in at least 2 months and he has been being talked about. Gregor has so much guilt and probably feels bad enough that everyone talks about him, and he can't even tell them how he feels or how he wants his room. Gregor is becoming less human with every move that is made. Greg's imprisonment, like in "The Bet" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "A Tale of Two Cities," has lead to his dehumanizing self. He cannot function as a human and has lost all contact, senses, and humanity. I don't know if he will ever be the same even if he gets to be a "human being" again
Gregor's loss of humanity is shown all throughout book two. In the beginning of this book, we are told that Gregor uses his antenae to feel aroud in the dim light. Since Gregor is starting to use his antenae, he demonstrates a loss of humanity. Another example in book two is Gregor is now starting to crawl on the walls like an insect. Gregor also says that his vision is decreasing. These examples show that Gregor is becoming more like the insect he changed into. Also, Gregor even says that over the month, he has been able to control his new body much easier. I think that this means he is becoming more insect-like and less human. Clearly, throughout book two, there are many examples of Gregor beginning to lose his humanity. I guess we will see in the next book if he does become an insect completely, or if he begins to regain his humanity.
Gregor realizes more and more throughout Book 2 that he is losing his humanity. At first, he has the diffucult task of trying to communicate to get certain things that he needs or wants. His first issue arrives when hunger takes over and he realizes that he now has a sudden distaste for milk. Of course, this is due to his metamorphosis but goes to show how he needs to communicate to survive or else starve. However, the most predominant point where he sees that he has really lost his humanity, is when Grete and his mother begin to move the furniture. At first, he believes that the idea is wonderful because it will give him more free space to crawl around in, especially along the walls and floor. He feels happy that his sister is doing something for him in the sense that he is still her brother, just that he has now more abilities since his metamorphosis. However, he really sees the idea differently when his mother puts the idea into her own perspective. She basically says that by moving the furniture proves that they really have no hope of Gregor ever transforming, or as she puts it, getting better. After thinking his mother's words over he believes that what she says is true. He still is human inside, but by removing the external things that help make people feel like humans, they experience less and less humanity. Gregor realizes that this metamorphosis is taking away his humanity more and more. In other words, he is begining to think of all the room he will have to crawl in instead of the furniture he will need as a person again. He even tries to regain some of his humanity, in a sense, by covering up the picture of the lady to ensure that they will not take it away with the rest of the furniture. To him, that picture is one of his last remaining chances or hopes of returning to being human. The furniture, I think, is like a symbol saying to Gregor that there is the hope that he will use all those things again when he does return to his human state. My conclusion is that Gregor is indeed losing his humanity as of the present situation, however, I also believe that he will try to draw himself back to retrieve his humanities.
Gregor is becoming less and less humanlike. His family treats him accordingly. One example is how Gregor does not eat the same things he used to. He usually loves the milk, but this time he is repulsed by it. Another example is how his vision is going. His long distance vision is deteriorating. He can not even see across the street to the hospital. It just becomes a "desert where the gray sky and the gray earth were indistinguishably fused." Also, another example of his loss of humanity is how he wants to have the room empty. He is sort of split on this decision, but he thinks that it would be good for the room to be bare in order to climb all over the walls and ceiling. I can conclude that, seeing that his humanity is exponentially decaying, he will soon be secluded and alone in the world. He will soon be separated from his family. Also, he, soon enough, will lose all ties to humanity and become degenerate. Continuing on this path, his mental health will soon deteriorate to nothing.
Gregor has lost a great deal of humanity throughout this section. He now eats like an animal by shoving his face into his foods and no longer likes his favorite drink of milk, but now likes old cheese and rotting foods. Gregor also now starts to act more like a bug and less human by crawling all over the walls and ceiling. Gregor has lost his human personality in favor of an insects.
During Book 2, Gregor loses his touch with humanity. He is unable to care for himself; ergo, Grete, his little sister, has to feed him and clean up his area. Gregor is no longer looked upon as a human. He had to hide himself with a sheet in order to shield a majority of the disgust of his family. The one time Gregor did not hide his vermin form from his mother, she fainted and he ran out of the roolm as attempts to help his sister. As reprimance for his escape, Gregor's father chased his and hit him with apples. The most obvious way Gregor loses touch with humanity is his isolation from the world and his family. He has to stay in his room while being visited twice a day from his sister who he cannot see or talk to. All of this is not normal behavior of a human; therefore during this month of isolation Gregor loses touch with humanity.
Gregor acts more like an insect as time goes on. In the process he loses his memory and connection of human behavior. He prefers old, rotten food over fresh food and hides under the couch when someone enters his room. He also begins to care less about concealing himself from his family in order to explore what is going on around him and puts his desire ahead of his family's. I think Gregor is reaching a point where he won't be able to return to human behavior.
I think the theme of the novel is that Gregor already faced isolation before and his metamorphosis was just an outward expression of it. When Gregor was working to support his family he was not really appreciated and was barely acknowledged, and his metamorphosis just forced his family to further that isolation. It also shows Gregor's mother's struggling between how she instictively reacts and how she thinks a mother should react to the loss of a son. We also saw how his father took advatage of Gregor when he was hoarding money that could have greatly helped Gregor, and Grete at the end of the book shows great contempt for Gregor eventhough Gregor had good intentions trying to send her to the Conservatory if things had not gone wrong.
Gregor has lost almost every part of his life that made him human. Before this metamorphosis, all Gregor did or thought about doing was work. Now he has no way to work, and he has completely given up thinking about it. He can no longer get food for himself. Grete has to bring it to him. Gregor likes spoiled and old food rather than normal human fresh food. His favorite drink of milk now tastes disgusting to him. Gregor now hides under a couch with a blanket when his sister enters the room. Without locks on his door, he is completely shut out from the world. The furniture that any human would use has now been taken out of his room. Gregor is currently as far from his human self as possible. His family is treating him completely like a monstrous vermin.
ReplyDeleteGregor's loss of humanity throughout this section is evident. There are numerous reasons that will support this. First, Gregor will not eat regular human food any more. He even rejects his favorite drink, milk. Gregor only likes food that is expired or from the garbage. He is no longer eating like a real human. Second, he realizes that he cannot see the hospital that he, as a human, was tired of looking at. This causes him grief and makes him sad. He does not have any human abilities, such as vision. Third, he struggles to listen to any conversation made in the house. Gregor realizes that he cannot speak to anyone so he is obsessed with having someone to even listen to. He cannot show affection because he has no one to talk to. Fourth, Gregor feels guilty for not being able to talk and thank Grete for everything she has been doing for him, as he would have if he were human. He feels as if he is the worst brother in the whole world, and he that he is letting Grete down. Fifth, Gregor is upset when his mother and sister start taking the furniture out of his room. To him, that is one of his lasting memories when he was human and tries to save the picture of the woman with the boa. He cannot stand the idea of not have the room in which he has lived in for five years. Sixth, Gregor feels like and outcast, and does not realize it until he hears his mother's voice again. He then realizes how much he misses being human. He cannot communicate to any of his family members and feels lonely. Finally, Gregor feels like a hideous creature when his father comes home, finds Gregor, and chases Gregor back to his room, while throwing apples at Gregor. At this point, Gregor realizes how he is barely human anymore. He cannot function like a human and scares everybody he sees. He has no humanity or affection, and he is now just a vermin.
ReplyDeleteAs Gregor's life continues to move on in the form of a vermin, he loses more and more of his humanity. First of all, he is drinking from a dish on the floor. Normal people do not eat off of the floor from a dish, then again he isn't human. He is an insect. Also, his once favorite drink, milk, is no longer considered edible. Gregor starts to climb on the walls and ceiling, finding complete amusement from it. He loses his humanity there as well. Although only basic, Gregor's slight shift in humanity changes his world. He is becoming more and more like an insect, when he should be worrying about returning to human form again. However, Gregor realizes once he returns to his normal state he will be treated also no different and return to the hum-drum of life as he knew it.
ReplyDeleteAs for a conclusion, I conclude that Gregor prefers being the "monstrous vermin" as far as Section 2 tells us. Gregor doesn't like working or having to take full responsibility for his family. Being the insect gives him an escape from it, even though it has its set backs. Maybe, by the end of the novella, Gregor will learn to assert himself and be able to return to his human form. That, or he will get crushes like the bug he is.
The more Book 2 progresses, the more Gregory moves away from being a human and towards being an insect. The first thing in the chapter that emphasizes this is that he wakes up at twilight, when most people would be going to sleep. Also, his family separates themselves from him by locking his doors and tiptoeing around. Nobody in the family treats Gregor like a human. They all see him as a beast. Even his sister, who now cares for him, does it for the family, not Gregor himself. She gives him table scraps and rotten food to eat, and, as a sign of his growing bestiality, he happy accepts these and turns away good food. Mr. Samsa will not even enter Gregory's room, Mrs. Samsa will only do so if she cannot see Gregory, and the only time Grete actually addressed Gregory personally is when she threatened him. She further demonstrates Gregory's transformation when she throws away the food he hasn't eaten and picks up his bowl with a rag, rather than her hand. Gregor's desire to be under the couch also shows his loss of humanity. Not only does it tell us that he likes small places like an insect would, but also that he is alienating himself from mankind because of his physical form. Because he has separated himself from humanity, Gregor's family does not even think to try to talk to him, and talks about him in secret, though they don't think he can understand them. The only way for Gregor to find out what's going on is to eavesdrop at the door. Gregor's family neglects him because of his repulsive appearance. They fail to see the slowly dying human inside. Grete exemplifies this when she runs to open the window in Gregor's room, and when she does not remove the sheet from over Gregor. He has officially been removed as a member of the family due to his ugliness and uselessness. Gregor again shows his physical loss of humanity when he finds pleasure in climbing the walls and hanging on the ceiling, as well as the deterioration of his vision. When Gregor was turned into an insect, he slowly lost his humanity both in his bestial behavior and in his removal from supporting his family in the terribly capitalistic society he lives in. However, I don't think Gregor's humanity was entirely intact even before his metamorphosis. This is shown by both his alienation from society, and of his lack of spirit and dignity. His transformation only puts these traits in a viewable, physical format.
ReplyDeleteGregor has become accustom to being a bug; he goes through the same routine every day. Grete feeds him daily and she sets up a chair so he can sit by the window. He would silently participate in family conversations by listening through the doors in his room. Gregor still has human emotions. He feels shame and grief and he clings to his belongs that he does not want taken away from him. Inside, Gregor has human qualities, but because he is now a vermin he cannot express them like a human or act like a human. I think that Gregor is trying to stay the same person he was. He has difficulty doing this because he has to make so many necessary changes to adapt to his new body.
ReplyDeleteIn book two Gregor is still stuck in his miserable insect state. Gregor's loss of humanity is recognized when his sister Grete and his mother start removing funiture from his room without his consent. Gregor is not given the choice of food to eat anymore. He liked milk and when his Grete left it for him he took one sip and stopped drinking it. From there on Grete brings a spread of food into his room on a newspaper twice a day. Gregor eats what he likes and leaves what he dislikes. He has his good days and his bad days with the food she brings him. Once again his father causes him to get a wound on his back from a thrown apple. He has no freedom now which most humans have freedom. Since he was transformed into a bug he is dehumanized by his father especially and has to remain in his room. He sleeps under the couch all night which doesn't seem comfortable at all which is another loss of humanity. It seems like Gregor is getting the hang of his new body but the rest of his family except his sister is not. It has gotten worse with his father and mother; they can't even stand the sight of him. At this point of this novella it seems to me that Gregor will be continuously treated as an alienated person and his father and mother will never get used to him.
ReplyDeleteGregor's loss of humanity starts with his loss of taste for his favorite foods. He will only eat the old, inedible foods. He is treated like an animal because everyday his sister has to come in give him a bowl of water, which only he drinks out of, she has to pick up his leftovers with a cloth, and she sweeps up after him. Gregor hides himself under a sheet everyday Grete comes in to clean up. When his mother finally comes in and when she does see Gregor, she faints from horror. The father throws fruit at his own son. I believe that Gregor's metamorphosis is complete and he is a complete insect.
ReplyDeleteGregor has lost almost all of his humanity in book 2. He is completely ignored by his family, and is only brought food by his sister. Even she is afraid to look at him! The way he is treated by his sister pretty much degrades him, and he is treated animalistically. His sister does bring him food, but she must bring it into his room whenever his parents are asleep, in fear of them being upset over the fact that Grete is bringing Gregor food. When Grete does visit Gregor, he feels obligated to hide under a sheet so she does not have to see him. Gregor is starting to get used to his new body and has found new sources of entertainment, such as climbing on the walls and ceilings. Gregor longs for more crawling space, but he also does not want his furniture to be taken from him. His mother and sister start moving furniture, piece by piece, out of Gregor's room. Even Gregor's mother recognized that maybe by removing his furniture, they were also removing his hope of being normmal again. Although this is her viewpoint, Grete thinks differently and insists on moving the furniture. Gregor realizes himself that he is losing his humanity, as he says that he barely remembers life as a human being. I think that Gregor will continue to lose his humanity until his family starts accepting him and treating him better (if that ever happens, that is).
ReplyDeleteGregor loses alot of his humanity. He becomes more of a bug than a human. He eats like a bug. He chooses garbage, stinky cheese, and rotten vegetales over bread and milk. He also begins to forget more of his life as a human. He thinks that he can only hold onto that life through his room with furniture. Gregor also hides like a bug would do. He feels more comfortable being under the couch than anything else. He also has found new entertainment. He crawls around like a bug does. I believe that Gregor will soon almost forget completely what he it is like to live humanily with a bed and real food.
ReplyDeleteGregor has experienced a tremendous loss of humanity in Book 2. No longer does he look towards the future, but he wryly reminisces about the past and the state of things long ago. He is robbed of human interaction on a daily basis; for example, his sister hurriedly leaves his food in the room as she tries to avoid him at all costs. Gregor has even become afraid of his own family and darts under the couch at the slightest sound of a key turning in the lock. However, Gregor yearns for a relationship as shown through his attempts to listen in on the conversations in the adjacent rooms. Those words are the only factors that are keeping him relatively thriving in his sequestered life. When he thinks about his family’s financial situation, he still feels guilty, though. Gregor has lost almost all of the characteristics that make up a human being, and he is merely just a robot who used to provide for his family. After all, his personal furniture has been cleared from his room and he is treated as some sort of specimen or pet, not a family member. His furniture was the last connection to his better days, and now that it is gone, I conclude that Gregor’s family will get rid of him or he will die somehow, especially from how repulsed his family behaves towards him and after reading the last line of the section.
ReplyDeleteGregor has many losses of humanity throughout this section. One loss of humanity is when he is given a meal out of a bowl on the ground. This is a loss of humanity because usually pets or creatures that are not allowed to eat like humans eat on the ground. Another example of loss of humanity is when Gregor sleeps underneath the couch. This is a loss of humanity because pests and usually unwanted creatures sleep underneath couches. Gregor's loss of humanity is also portrayed by how he covers himself up with a sheet so his sister cannot see him. The last example is the fact the Grete and Mrs. Samsa are taking everything out of Gregor's room. This is an example of a loss of humanity because they are depriving Gregor of everything he once enjoyed. My conclusion is that Gregor is going to stay a bug and he is only going to get worse from now on.
ReplyDeleteGregor starts to adapt to being a monstrous vermin in Book 2. First, he starts to like foods that seem rather repulsive to humans, and hate foods that are normal for humans to like. Some foods he cannot even stand the smell of, so he takes the foods he likes away from the foods that smell bad. Also, for recreation he likes climbing up the walls and onto the ceiling. His behavior starts to gradually change towards the behavior of an insect.
ReplyDeleteBook 2 further allows the reader insight into how Gregor is exponentially losing his humanity as he adjusts to his new lifestyle. While Gregor has already long since lost any means of communication with his family, they are now thoroughly convinced that he cannot understand them. Numerous examples of both physical and mental losses of humanity are also exhumed in this section. When his sister Grete brings him his once favorite drink, milk, he turns away in disgust, quickly realizing he does not remotely enjoy it in his current state. Instead, he soon finds that he extraordinarily enjoys half-rotten cheese, vegetables, and scraps that he had previously dunned inedible as a human. Physically, Gregor is gaining more and more control over his new body. To his amazement, he now has the capability of climbing the walls and ceiling of his room, which he uses for his sole source of entertainment. Moreover, Gregor's eyesight is rapidly decreasing; He cannot see the hospital he could once view clearly from his window. Also, due to his sister's suggestion, it dawns on Gregor that he would much prefer a room with no furniture, allowing him to freely excavate his "cave."
ReplyDeleteWhile there was previously little hope for Gregor to maintain a somewhat healthy lifestyle in Book 1, there is now absolutely no chance of Gregor regaining his humanity. He is steadily decreasing, both mentally and physically, into a true insect. What with the prevalent belief among the Samsa family that Gregor is an evil, pestulent vermin, and given Gregor's state of mind and physical condition, it can be assumed that he will eventually be killed for being a nuisance and a "pest."
Gregor has lost his humanity little by little throughout this section, but it adds up to a lot. Firstly, he eats scraps and leftover moldy foods that a regular human wouldn't touch. He also doesn't like the foods he once loved. Next, Gregor has become dehumanized by his family shutting him out. They are scared of him, shun him, and do not even attempt to talk to him. He hasn't had human contact in at least 2 months and he has been being talked about. Gregor has so much guilt and probably feels bad enough that everyone talks about him, and he can't even tell them how he feels or how he wants his room. Gregor is becoming less human with every move that is made. Greg's imprisonment, like in "The Bet" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "A Tale of Two Cities," has lead to his dehumanizing self. He cannot function as a human and has lost all contact, senses, and humanity. I don't know if he will ever be the same even if he gets to be a "human being" again
ReplyDeleteGregor's loss of humanity is shown all throughout book two. In the beginning of this book, we are told that Gregor uses his antenae to feel aroud in the dim light. Since Gregor is starting to use his antenae, he demonstrates a loss of humanity. Another example in book two is Gregor is now starting to crawl on the walls like an insect. Gregor also says that his vision is decreasing. These examples show that Gregor is becoming more like the insect he changed into. Also, Gregor even says that over the month, he has been able to control his new body much easier. I think that this means he is becoming more insect-like and less human. Clearly, throughout book two, there are many examples of Gregor beginning to lose his humanity. I guess we will see in the next book if he does become an insect completely, or if he begins to regain his humanity.
ReplyDeleteGregor realizes more and more throughout Book 2 that he is losing his humanity. At first, he has the diffucult task of trying to communicate to get certain things that he needs or wants. His first issue arrives when hunger takes over and he realizes that he now has a sudden distaste for milk. Of course, this is due to his metamorphosis but goes to show how he needs to communicate to survive or else starve. However, the most predominant point where he sees that he has really lost his humanity, is when Grete and his mother begin to move the furniture. At first, he believes that the idea is wonderful because it will give him more free space to crawl around in, especially along the walls and floor. He feels happy that his sister is doing something for him in the sense that he is still her brother, just that he has now more abilities since his metamorphosis. However, he really sees the idea differently when his mother puts the idea into her own perspective. She basically says that by moving the furniture proves that they really have no hope of Gregor ever transforming, or as she puts it, getting better. After thinking his mother's words over he believes that what she says is true. He still is human inside, but by removing the external things that help make people feel like humans, they experience less and less humanity. Gregor realizes that this metamorphosis is taking away his humanity more and more. In other words, he is begining to think of all the room he will have to crawl in instead of the furniture he will need as a person again. He even tries to regain some of his humanity, in a sense, by covering up the picture of the lady to ensure that they will not take it away with the rest of the furniture. To him, that picture is one of his last remaining chances or hopes of returning to being human. The furniture, I think, is like a symbol saying to Gregor that there is the hope that he will use all those things again when he does return to his human state. My conclusion is that Gregor is indeed losing his humanity as of the present situation, however, I also believe that he will try to draw himself back to retrieve his humanities.
ReplyDeleteGregor is becoming less and less humanlike. His family treats him accordingly. One example is how Gregor does not eat the same things he used to. He usually loves the milk, but this time he is repulsed by it. Another example is how his vision is going. His long distance vision is deteriorating. He can not even see across the street to the hospital. It just becomes a "desert where the gray sky and the gray earth were indistinguishably fused." Also, another example of his loss of humanity is how he wants to have the room empty. He is sort of split on this decision, but he thinks that it would be good for the room to be bare in order to climb all over the walls and ceiling. I can conclude that, seeing that his humanity is exponentially decaying, he will soon be secluded and alone in the world. He will soon be separated from his family. Also, he, soon enough, will lose all ties to humanity and become degenerate. Continuing on this path, his mental health will soon deteriorate to nothing.
ReplyDeleteGregor has lost a great deal of humanity throughout this section. He now eats like an animal by shoving his face into his foods and no longer likes his favorite drink of milk, but now likes old cheese and rotting foods. Gregor also now starts to act more like a bug and less human by crawling all over the walls and ceiling. Gregor has lost his human personality in favor of an insects.
ReplyDeleteDuring Book 2, Gregor loses his touch with humanity. He is unable to care for himself; ergo, Grete, his little sister, has to feed him and clean up his area. Gregor is no longer looked upon as a human. He had to hide himself with a sheet in order to shield a majority of the disgust of his family. The one time Gregor did not hide his vermin form from his mother, she fainted and he ran out of the roolm as attempts to help his sister. As reprimance for his escape, Gregor's father chased his and hit him with apples. The most obvious way Gregor loses touch with humanity is his isolation from the world and his family. He has to stay in his room while being visited twice a day from his sister who he cannot see or talk to. All of this is not normal behavior of a human; therefore during this month of isolation Gregor loses touch with humanity.
ReplyDeleteGregor acts more like an insect as time goes on. In the process he loses his memory and connection of human behavior. He prefers old, rotten food over fresh food and hides under the couch when someone enters his room. He also begins to care less about concealing himself from his family in order to explore what is going on around him and puts his desire ahead of his family's. I think Gregor is reaching a point where he won't be able to return to human behavior.
ReplyDeleteI think the theme of the novel is that Gregor already faced isolation before and his metamorphosis was just an outward expression of it. When Gregor was working to support his family he was not really appreciated and was barely acknowledged, and his metamorphosis just forced his family to further that isolation. It also shows Gregor's mother's struggling between how she instictively reacts and how she thinks a mother should react to the loss of a son. We also saw how his father took advatage of Gregor when he was hoarding money that could have greatly helped Gregor, and Grete at the end of the book shows great contempt for Gregor eventhough Gregor had good intentions trying to send her to the Conservatory if things had not gone wrong.
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