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Gregor Samsa, a traveler, awakes to find that his body is hard and armour plated with a “vaulted brown belly divided” into stiff arched segments (Kafka 3). At first, he desires to go back to sleep and forget about “all this foolishness” (4), but he cannot. He realizes he has become the “mindless and spineless” (5) creature his boss and father want him to be, which is “a scoundrel” (10) to be treated with suspicion despite unfailing devotion and company loyalty. Gregor refuses to become like the head clerk, so he embraces his transformation from an agitated beetle into the person he is to become. This interim step is necessary to prove to Gregor that he must make the change. jvKafMet.rtf
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(Kafka 3). At first, he desires to go back to sleep and forget about "all this foolishness" (4), but he cannot. He realizes he has become the "mindless and spineless"
(5) creature his boss and father want him to be, which is "a scoundrel" (10) to be treated with suspicion despite unfailing devotion and company loyalty. Gregor refuses to become
like the head clerk, so he embraces his transformation from an agitated beetle into the person he is to become. This interim step is necessary to prove to Gregor that
he must make the change. The agitated beetle form is just the right amount of spectacle necessary to relieve Gregor of the painful
duty of his "aggravating work" and "grueling profession" (4) in the mundane world. His metamorphosis will be, not only a rescue from work, but also the traditional life represented by
the father who ultimately squishes that old life out of Gregor. By changing into a beetle, Gregor and his agitated legs are making the first steps to free him to
pursue work considered meaningful to Gregor. It is his form of rescue. Rescue, in whatever form it takes, is a transformation out of
the past into the present in support of a future. Sigmund Freud believed that only by freeing repressed happiness, can an individual make a contribution to society and serve its
needs. This is done through segments, or "gradual alterations" (Freud 62). This is why Gregors path as a beetle is wrought with fits and starts. He is too agitated to
wait, but at the same time, even getting "halfway out of bed" requires several major efforts for the beetle. Gregor has a number of second thoughts about his decision to
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