Irodalomelmélet, összehasonlító irodalomtudomány, irodalmi stílusok
Nyelvek és irodalom
Tudomány
In Kafka’s story, the transformation of Gregor Samsa is not the only one, for all
family members transform themselves in a certain sense after the metamorphosis – this
is one of the generally accepted theories of research. It is probably most striking
in Grete’s case, who transforms from a caring sister into an impassive “goddess of
fate” in the time between Gregor’s transformation and his death and virtually pronounces
the death sentence on Gregor, who is now only called it”. Her most important argument
is that her brother Gregor and this animal cannot be identical. A logic that is more
or less followed by her father and mother, but which seems superfluous to the cleaner,
who only knows Gregor in his transformed state and first refers to him as a “dung
beetle” and then as “thing”. This article examines how the process of Gregor’s objectification
unfolds for the individual characters and examines whether and, if so, how this process
is depicted in the 1975 film adaptation of the same title by Jan Němec.
