What if Gregor was any other animal??!
In our class discussion the other day, we mentioned the possible reasoning for Kafka choosing a giant insect as the animal that Gregor was transformed into, versus another type of animal. We uniformly agreed that Kafka's choice of a large cockroach-like insect was deliberate. By choosing an insect as the new body of Gregor, it gives both the reader and the characters that Gregor encounters in the book the ultimate sense of dehumanization without leaving the realm of living vertebrate. Below I have some reasonings as to why an insect was Kafka's best choice of brute: - bugs are the most commonly killed leaving creatures. There are insect repellents and other devices to get rid of bugs that are easily available at your local grocery store, and it is normal for a household to own one or more of these repellents. Also, an exterminator is a person whose paid occupation is to exterminate (a rather aggressively fancy word for killing bugs!) thes...