"A country doctor" and "metamorphosis" by Farantz Kafka were short stories to think about dilemma of humanity and complex relationships. We might think the best way to understand people are wearing their shoes or stand at their positions. However, people are self interest and the relationship could be fad while facing communication difficulities. Gregor turned into giant insect on one morning while he woke up. His world changed suddently. His parents, sister and manager were trying to understand what happened in Gregor, since he locked himself at the room at the moment he should go to work. Gregor tried very hard to open the door. Finally, he met his family and they were astonished. Gregor's sister helped to make Gregor to have comfortable life as a insect, the furnitures were relocated for him to turn around with ease. As a big bug, he cannot talk to family and also lose social capability in human society. The story was quite sad, his father said, "we need to get rid of it, he is not Gregor", the lost of communicaiton also shaked familty ties, Gregor's family started to think maybe this bug was not Gregor, and this bug only brought family trategy. I though if Gregor woke up in the morning and found himself transformed into a dog, cat or pig, the issue could be lighter. Since human being still can get along with most of mammals. However, a bug ? a giant bug? it must be very annoying even he was family member. If people can not talk, it means communicaton does not exist. The relationship is also dead even for family. People are easily to forget the relationship even they have good time before. A country doctor also reflects the same situation, the doctor can never understand the suffering from patient. Doctor is the one to cure patient and patient recieves the cure and pain. Eventually, Gregor died in the shape of bug. His sister turned into young woman and family was back to normal. The family relationship is usually considered the most beautiful with unlimited love; however, it still changes if family member becomes very strange thing, such as a bug. The stories reflect humanity weakness, human relationship is built based on qualified communication.
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AuthorFormosa girl in Korea Archives
June 2016
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