Thursday 3 April 2014

Describe the ways in which Gregors relationship with his family members changes or stays the same.

Gregor Samsa
goes through a horrifying experience: he wakes up transformed into a bug.


"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious
dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous
bug."

This strange and incomprehensible change
causes his relationship with his family to shift throughout the story.

At the
start of the story, soon after Gregor wakes as a bug, his parents (especially his mother) begin
to distance themselves from him. At first, Gregor's mother tries to wake him up for work with a
"soft voice." She shows tenderness and love for her son. After she sees him in his bug
form, her treatment of her son changes. As he rocks quietly near his mother in his bug form she
cries out, "Help, for God's sake help!" Her fear of her bug-son is so great that she
"collapsed into the arms of [Gregor's] father." His mother grows afraid of Gregor in
his new form.

Gregor's relationship with his sister changes greatly
throughout the plot as well. At the...

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