The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis (German: "Die Verwandlung") is a blackpilling novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. It tells the story of the salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ("monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to this condition, being extremly ugly.
Story[edit | edit source]
Gregor Samsa earns all the money for his family but on one morning, he wakes up as a huge insect (often depicted as a cockroach) and can therefore no longer go to work. His parents begin to detest their son, so he's only inside his room all day. Only his sister Grete still looks after her brother and gives him food and drink. But she too turns away from her brother more and more, since he can no longer earn money which results in increasing financial problems for their family.
When he comes out of his room one day, his father throws apples at him to make Gregor disappear again. Gregor critically injures himself and is locked in his room again, and dies alone there. After his death, his family lives happier and thinks about their future again because they are now earning money independently from him.
Blackpill interpretation[edit | edit source]
- Once your use (in his case money) is gone, your value deemed by society is gone, too; regardless of your effort, intentions or "personality".
- Looks are everything; and they heavily dictate how you get treated by others. There may be a bias within one's family, yet even there this phenomenon is observable.
- Consequently, extreme ugliness (as in an individual depictable as a "monstrious vermin") causes extreme and direct opposion of one's presence.
- According to the legal law in civilized nations, everyone's the same but the law of nature will never be restraint by humans: Gregor was doomed, and it was over for him, as soon as his appearance changed to the worse.