https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DfrBcjisVo
6:20 – 6:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E9aOuf6eI8
0:45 – 1:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrhpRtEXH8
6:15 – 7:04
“His mother—in spite of the presence of the manager she was standing here with her hair sticking up on end, still a mess from the night—first looked at his father with her hands clasped, then went two steps towards Gregor and collapsed right in the middle of her skirts, which were spread out all around her, her face sunk on her breast, completely concealed. His father clenched his fist with a hostile expression, as if he wished to push Gregor back into his room, then looked uncertainly around the living room, covered his eyes with his hands, and cried so that his mighty breast shook.”
“By the door he first noticed what had really lured him there: it was the smell of something to eat. For a bowl stood there, filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread. He almost laughed with joy, for he had an even greater hunger than in the morning, and he immediately dipped his head almost up to and over his eyes down into the milk. But he soon drew it back again in disappointment, not just because it was difficult for him to eat on account of his delicate left side—he could eat only if his entire panting body worked in a coordinated way—but also because the milk, which otherwise was his favourite drink and which his sister had certainly placed there for that reason, did not appeal to him at all”
As I was reading Metamorphosis, I knewn that the Story was about a man, Gregor, who turns into creature of some sort, and as I was reading the first part of the story it seemed as if he had simply turned into a massive bug. The way I thought of him was as a cockroach. But while reading the story had he truly just been a cockroach, it didn’t really make sense to me how his sister could still love him and try to take care of him. I understood that he was still her brother, and he was still his parent’s child but, he had totally turned into a cockroach and it was as if he was totally gone, as a gross, either small or tremendous bug, so at this point it didn’t really make sense to me how they were still trying to help him survive. It seemed that he was basically no longer any bit human and I could have understood entirely how it would have been really hard to treat him as such. My idea of what Gregor was to look like only became more confirmed when they talked of him hiding under the couches and furniture, I could only picture him as a bug. And this remained true through the first two videos I saw. Through Karl-Heinz Teuber’s interpretation, to Wisecrack’s interpretation in thug notes, they both portray him as a cockroach, completely just a bug. But then I saw this third video from Carlos Atanes, and I started to understand the book a little more. One will never know what Franz Kafka truly intended Gregor to look like, however, I think That Atanes makes it much clearer. In this video Gregor is more half man-half cockroach where he is clearly half a man still. In this case it is a lot harder to ignore the fact that he was a brother and a son, and I understand fully how Gregor’s sister and parents still tried to love him. This video made the entire story a lot more real for me, and maybe even more tragic, as they didn’t just lose their family member one day, but that they lost him slowly overtime as they couldn’t bear to have him live there.