... . It doesn't do him much good for his family does not speak after the metamorphosis. But as time goes on they don't think of him in such an awkward manner. On the contrary, he becomes a common burden that they all share though they would never speak of him as such. The irony is that they were a heavy burden on Gregor during his former job. Gregor ... 's harder to live as a beetle than look at one. They never seem to grasp the hardships he faces in his own mind. The original printing of The Metamorphosis had a planned illustration of Gregor's beetle form, "Kafka wrote to the publishers on ...

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... Secondary Characters in the Plague and the Metamorphosis In the novels The Metamorphosis and The Plague the role of secondary characters is a crucial one. Without these pillars of support the protagonists would fall. Sometimes the role of a secondary character is not a big one, but they are like a second protagonist, holding in balance the life of the protagonist. Isolation and alienation are at the heart of this surreal story of a man transformed overnight ... pulpit, placing himself in exile on the path to the kingdom of God. By the time of his sermon of the second Week of Prayer, Fath...

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