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In the ‘metamorphosis’; a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa wakes up to find he has transformed into a giant beetle. The story follows Gregor as he adjust to his new form and his family’s reactions. In the end, he straves himself and dies, and his family was relieved. One element of modernism in this story is the absurd nature of the plot. A man turns into a giant beetle overnight, with no explanation or even much surprise on his part. Absurd situation is not uncommon in modernist literature. The scientific and industrial revolution that affected Europe and the rest of the world in the nineteenth century was further developed with the arrival of the twentieth century. The literary field have a drastic change. Braking away from literary movement of the other centuries such as romanticism or realism authors of the modernism borrow from new ideas in anthropology, psychology, political theory, psychoanalysis and physics to create their works. In this essay we will study the impact of any of the field in creating a sense of disillusionment, fragmentation or isolation in the particular work of Kafka called ‘The Metamorphosis’.

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