EXPLOITATION IN FRANZ KAFKA’ S NOVELLA, THE METAMORPHOSIS: AN EXISTENTIALIST STUDY

Afza Sabir MPhil English Scholar. Email: Afzasabir@gmail.com
Ahmad Ullah MPhil English Scholar, Northern University Noshehra, Pakistan, Email: ahmedktk2013@gmail.com
Khalid Azim Khan Assistant Professor, Consultant Academic Accreditation, Deanship of University Development and Quality Assurance, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Email: kakhan@uqu.edu.sa
Hashim Khan Head of English & General Subjects Department, Saudi Japanese Automobile High Institute, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Email: khansnexus@gmail.com

Abstract

This exploration investigates Exploitation in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis; from the Existentialist View. The Metamorphosis (2002) centers around existence with its various highlights from a solitary individual to the entire world. The story is the narration of a labor who transforms into a big bug, symbolically, through the process of metamorphosis. This is the situation that almost every human being experiences i.e. diseases and hardships. Further, the novella covers savage events that had played havoc in the lives of many people. The focus in this work is to search out how people live through coarse situations and the austerity that they face. This world, now-a-days, is not a bed of roses anymore. For the purpose to explore these uncouth elements, an Existentialist approach, by Jean Paul Sartre, is opted for the analysis of the above mentioned novella that shows the penury of life where everyone tries to feed and struggle for life but, at the end, he gets nothing out of it. If there comes net zero result of all human struggles, that is because of the wanton nature of human beings. Therefore, this study investigates Exploitation through the angle Existentialism in the text of The Metamorphosis (2002) and its relation to the contemporary world. Exploitation is the key determinant in the text. In order to analyze the text and to relate with the theory, textual analysis of the novella is performed.

 

 

 

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