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Throughout history, civilization has undergone many changes typically brought on by technological advances. The most recent of these changes, the industrial revolution, instigated a mass movement of people from rural areas into rapidly growing cities and from farms into factories. While most agree that the industrial revolution brought about change for the better, some argue that the costs have outweighed the benefits and man has become worse off than he was before the revolution. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka creatively illustrates this later point and shows how man has become self absorbed and reduced to the status of a lowly worker insect by the modern world.
The Metamorphisis begins with a daunting image of Gregor waking to "unsettling dreams" as a "monstrous vermin"(3). Right from the beginning of this story, the reader is bombarded with the image of Gregor's metamorphosis into a revolting insect. Upon waking up as an insect, most people would likely become frightened......

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