Please respond to the following questions, at least one paragraph each.
1) What do you think Kafka was trying to say by turning the protagonist, Gregor into an insect?
2) Why do you think that Kafka chose the beetle/roach as the insect as supposed to the classic fairy tale reptile, the frog?
He turned him into an insect minimize him. Make him be just another thing to be ignored, squashed on, a nobody. He tried to make an example out of a protagonist to tell us a message. His message is a hard one to analyze, but I'll take my best analysis his message. He wanted to say that some people may as well be bugs, because they don't want to do much with their lives. Gregor was a person who wakes up, goes to work, goes home. He isn't the kind of person to go and take care of himself, but he takes care of everyone else. He was a person that hides in the shadows and brings back to the hive.
Kafka chose an insect because no one would care about a bug. It's something that someone saw as disgusting and they wouldn't want him to be around anyone or anything. Which is also the reason why he was confined to just his room. He was treated like trash. He became insignificant to his family and no one wanted to deal with him. As far as his family treated him, he was already an insignificant bug to them. Some who just goes through the motions.
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