LIT 2020
             Research Paper
            
            
             "The way he lived is what he wrote"
            
            
            
            
             "The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me."
             FRANZ KAFKA
            
             Reading such an imaginative author can make you think about the different reasons this author expresses himself in the way he does in his writings. In the above quote we can see clearly Kafka was troubled by the way he grew up and the way he was treated by his parents. He says he has a tremendous world inside his head, meaning all the thoughts of his childhood. He also tells us it is better to be "torn to pieces" and get it out of his head, than to die with that thought in his head. This is how "Metamorphosis" came alive. Franz Kafka‘s "Metamorphosis" can be given such a deep thought, reasoning and understanding because of the way this man lived his childhood and young age. It is more than a literary work. It is a representation of the inner fears the author has in a not so tragical as to be called tormented, but traumatic childhood. Kafka disguises himself in the character Gregor Samsa, and makes the reader aware that even though he has no fault in what has happenned, his family, specifically his father, who is the one who represents and makes him live a traumatic childhood, makes his life a living hell. The reader can find out about this, once it is known that Mr. Samsa wants to "knock Gregor back into his room" . Mr. Samsa, just as Hermann Kafka, represents the bad giant, the man whose violence overpowers any kind of sympathy he might have for his unfortunate son. Even though Hermann Kafka never physically abused his son, he severly punished him at times and this is why young Kafka was so afraid of his "huge fat...