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Kafka throughout Metamorphosis shows key examples of the life of Gregor and how it’s filled himself with alienation. Alienation is brought out in both Kafka’s writings The Metamorphosis and “A Hunger Artist”. The way Kafka lived may have been examples and themes in each the two stories. In both stories main characters decide to separate themselves from their own surroundings. They are reasons for each of the characters isolation from what’s outside of them. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor, the main focus morphs physically into a bug. His intent was to be freer from his own life, but isolation from family and work increases. Gregor’s family then does not want anything to do with him. Also, the hunger artist alienates himself by hiding inside a cage and fasting. In the story he wants nothing from the outside not even food. These are two extreme examples of how Kafka uses the theme of alienation. This important theme is shown throughout the works of The Metamorphosis and “A Hunger......

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