I agree with the same sentence: "What I am most afraid of feelings is that I do not care about the other party in exchange for sincerity." "You give sincerely, but the other party takes your efforts for granted, and anyone will feel cold." It is said that the feelings between people are mutual, and no feeling can be maintained by the efforts of one party alone. But not everyone really knows how to be grateful, and there are always some people who, accustomed to getting it, forget to cherish it. In this world, nothing is taken for granted, if the effort is not cherished, the sincerity is not responded to, even the deepest feelings will appear. Often people can only see their true relationship with the world when they are deeply suffering.
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In the Metamorphosis by the Austro-Hungarian writer Franz Kafka, the absurd story of the protagonist becoming a beetle tells us the fragility and dirtiness of human nature in the face of interests, which is a cruel reality of mercenary, worship of money, and disdain for true human nature. It reflects the fate of the little people at the bottom in the era of weak humanity and hypocrisy of family affection.
Kafka
The protagonist of the story, Grigel, is a salesman for a travel company, and because of the heavy responsibility of supporting his family, Grigel has been on the move for many years. A person struggles to support the entire life expenses of his parents and sisters at home. At first, he was the eldest son of his parents, the proudest brother of his sister.
But the reality is like the june day to change, as the pillar of the family, he has undergone earth-shaking changes in one day. Early that morning, Grigel lay in bed and had a series of nightmares, waiting to wake up. He found himself transformed into a giant bug, with a hard carapace attached to its back, lying face up on the bed. At first Grigel thought he was dreaming, and he tried to get himself up, but unfortunately he did not grasp the position, and after a strong intimate contact with the pillar at the end of the bed, he felt his lower body hurt fiercely.
Originally, he had planned to take the train that left at 6 a.m. to go to work, but now it was 7:15. You know, in the five years he worked diligently, he didn't take a single sick leave. It took hard work day and night to exchange for the comfortable life of the family today. The painful body and paralyzed mind only wanted him to continue to sleep upside down.
Since Gregor had not yet appeared at work, the door rang at the same time, the sincere greetings of his parents and the accountability of the company's legal representative for his late arrival at work. At this time, in addition to turning into a huge beetle, Grigel's voice began to become less and less human. Fortunately, under the strong sense of responsibility, Grigel still used his deformed hand to open the door of the room with difficulty.
If the sun's duty is to bring light. The responsibility of raindrops is to moisturize the earth, and the bloom of flowers is to set off the world. Griegle's mission, then, is to hold up hope for tomorrow for his family. But what he did not expect was that when the door was opened, everyone showed unanimous fear and disgust for Grigel's beetle appearance, and he not only frightened the company representative, but also directly frightened his mother, who had always been weak, to the ground.
In the panic, the father grabbed a large wooden stick in his right hand and waved it, trying to banish the ugly "bug" back to the bedroom. He begged his father, but his angry father could not listen to his cries. No matter how sincere his attitude and how respectful his behavior was, it was useless. The fierce father even kicked Grigel behind him and kicked him back into the room.
Compared with the pain in his body, Grigel at this time is more of an inner loss. Over the years, he has given his all for the family. Whenever he took home the money he earned from his hard work and put it on the table, his family all regarded him as a model. But now he is spurned because of this body that cannot continue to work. When family affection is no longer warm, indifference can only become the protagonist.
In this way, the deformed Grigel began to live a beetle life at home. If there is any comfort, it is that my sister always took pains to take care of him in the beginning. On weekdays, he was brought food, cleaned the room, and sometimes even cheese, vegetables, meat jelly and other delicacies. Although Griegle at this time is in the shape of a beetle, the mind is still the human thought. Although he can only make a beetle at home now, his heart still remembers his sister's musical dream, his father's bond problem and his mother's physical condition, which he fought for before he became a beetle.
Once, the sympathetic sister wanted to make more room for her brother to crawl, and she planned to remove all the furniture in the house that stood in his way. But at this time, Grigel was hanging upside down on the wall in a daze, and although the family was mentally prepared, the strange body and the room full of mucus once again frightened the mother, and the father angrily picked up the apple and threw it at him.
From the first day of his transformation, his father had firmly established this belief, and the most appropriate way to treat it was relentless violence, and under his father's "artillery bombardment", an apple smashed deep into Grigel's back, and the unprecedented pain made him faint.
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Interactions between people are more or less influenced by potential interests, not only money, but also companionship, care, love, or freedom. When a person loses his value, what will follow will only be people's distance and scorn.
After Grigel turned into a beetle, the family's first crisis was the problem of income, at this time the father was already in the age of flower armor, and the younger sister had not yet fully grown up. My mother, too, had suffered from asthma for years, and she would have an attack every few days. The miserable situation made his father turn his anger to Grigel, who turned into a beetle. In order to relieve the pressure of survival, the father had to rent out part of the room in the house, and the family had to eat in the small kitchen.
One day, my father proposed that my sister play the piano for the three tenants in the family, and the sound of the piano fascinated the dizzy Grigel in the room, and the elegant sound was as intoxicating as the lullaby on the bedside. Haunted by the sound of the piano, Grigel did not know that he had appeared above the hall. With a scream, the tenants in the hall all left in panic.
At this time, the sister felt that Griegle's sudden appearance had disgraced her. She cried out in a hoarse voice and said to her father, "I must get it out of the door, I have made great patience and sacrifice." Her sister's cries made Grigel understand once and for all that there is no real tolerance in this world, especially when one fades the appearance of a person and reveals it.
Finally, on a sunny morning, before his father could take a stick to kick him out of the house, Grigel, who was tormented by body and mind, left the world he had fought for forever. When the door was opened again, the mother did not feel fear anymore, because by this time Griegle was already lying motionless on the ground, while the father who was standing by the side drew a cross on his chest and kept muttering, "Thank God for his kindness to us."
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In The Metamorphosis, Kafka creates absurd and bizarre images, using symbolic techniques to mirror comical reality. After Griegle transformed into a beetle, his family relationship changed dramatically, and a picture of extreme selfishness, indifference and cruelty stung his heart. The lingering loneliness and sadness eventually led him to be knocked down by reality.
Looking back on life, we now have to bear great pressure every day, worry about learning when we go to school, and worry about our careers when we grow up, and people begin to suffer from illness in old age. More and more people will be defeated by the harsh reality and eventually bow to fate.
In the face of an unchangeable fate, as Emerson said: "In our lifetime, fate is an unpredictable factor." Once a ship in the middle of the sea disintegrates, the sailor is as small as dust. However, as long as you learn to swim, be good at chopping waves, and exercise a strong body, your fate will change."