Da, Bukashka
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In the short-story The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka often uses symbolism to show the rectitude of communism for society and to perpetuate and promulgate the views and theories of the Marxist-Leninists.
"For instance when during the course of the morning I go back to the hotel the orders I've received, those fine gentlemen are just having their breakfast. Should I try that with my boss, I'd be fired on the spot 'If I didn't hold myself back because of my parents'" (Dover, 12)
Gregor Samsa works as a travelling salesman. Despite the fact that his job is oppressive and he has a bte-noir towards it , he toils about it anyway for the sake of his family. Franz Kafka chose to turn Gregor into a bug to emphasize Gregor's life in a bourgeois, stifling society. Society (zemlja) crushes the worker (robnk) , just as Gregor's being fired is like him being "squashed like a bug:" hence his bug-like form. Gregor works for his family, and as the tension and conflict build between him and the family (zemlja), he is eradicated by the conflict, and Gregor dies. This proves the statement indirectly. Conflict between Gregor and the chief clerk proves the statements directly. The chief clerk represents the nadrobnk, or oppressor of the common working man...