Gregor And Meursalt (Comparison)

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Gregor & Meursault’s

Character based comparison

Sohrab nezamzadeh

A beetle in the room is the actual grandson of the Samsa’s family; he had been through hard work in making money for his family and the debts of his old aged father just till the last day which he was an actual human bodied person. This morning he had limbs and a big abdomen with a rounded back which he continuously swung on it; uncontrollable conversion in his taste, thoughts and looks. But not is all about it, he was another creature, the family has little by little accepted Gregor as just a beetle, and the whole thing was to keep him rescued. He was lost the personality, respect and love of others, as a human in a beetle’s body but brings him love and the actual humanity from inside as to be a spectator of the human’s around him; the emotions of his father becomes merely disappeared towards him and the sister as well becomes indifferent to her bugged shaped brother, it seems like the whole family seeks the money he makes and not the actual personality which he had. And so they make the beetle be just a beetle in every aspect in their minds. Gregor struggles and while the whole furniture are moved from his room, he jumps on a gilt framed picture of a woman in a fur coat and feels deeply sad and nostalgic, and the table which he had been using since his childhood which all in all shows the existing love and emotions which are still left in Gregor’s heart as a beetle. He is not permitted to get himself even the least inside, to the world of humans and listens to the violin played by her sister; he is condemned to be out, no one cares about his inner thoughts and feelings, every one changed to him and he is not acceptable in the society.

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on the other hand; Meursault, which had been a single person, living alone in an apartment with a pimp as his neighbor called Raymond, he is careless, and emotionless to everything happens around him, he doesn’t remember the exact date for the death of his mother, and doesn’t really understand what is love when Marie talks about marriage and making love, kiss doesn’t raise any feelings up for him and so the routine of his life has never been changed. He is an outsider; he kills an Arab while walking on the sands of a beach in a hot weather, ...

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