The Metamorphosis End

For more financial help, the family rents out a room to 3 roommates.  They hate clutter so the family puts all the junk in Gregor's room which Gregor loves.  One night, Grete is playing the violin in the living room for her parents and the roommates.  Gregor comes out of his room a little to listen and love the music and later tell his sister he's paying for her music school, but one of the roommates sees Gregor and freaks out and says they will leave and that they won't pay rent.  This worries the parents and forces Grete to tell them that the bug isn't Gregor and that Gregor is gone and this bug needs to be exterminated.  Gregor is extremely hurt by these words and goes to his room and slowly dies to relieve the burden he feels he puts upon his family.  Gregor's family mourns and fire the maid and kick out the roommates but as well as find that they have more money and move to a nicer smaller apartment.  At the end Grete stretches her arms showing her breaking from the "cocoon" that Gregor put her and the family in.

The Metamorphosis Pt. 4

Gregor is injured and does nothing except sadly lie on the bed but the door is open so he can see his family living.  His father comes and says how sad his life is and how sick and tired he has become of doing everything, ironically the same position Gregor was in before he became a bug.  Gregor later finds out that his family has been selling off the family jewelry to get money to get by.  The family has also hired an elderly women now instead of a maid to clean their house.  Gregor feels that the family is trapped in his presence this all coming from his doubt in his life because he can't do anything as well as the family in general has basically stopped caring for him.

The Metamorphosis Pt. 3

Gregor faces the ultimate removal from his family as when he is in the room his mother walks in and his mother screams in scare.  Gregor's father comes home and hears that Gregor broke out and thought that he attacked the mother.  He starts screaming and so does the mother and when Gregor comes he becomes attacked by his father.  The whole scenario turns very ugly but still as Gregor is being attacked he still notices that his father's posture and how he looks is much better, straighter and cleaner.  This just shows how much Gregor loves his family and how the feelings might not be mutual as we see.

The Metamorphosis Pt. 2

Gregor had always taken care of his family.  He did everything for them but now since he is incapable they not only treat him differently they don't even show him love at all.  He now only eats the scraps of food because he is a bug, but it is ironic to the situation of how he is treated by his family in the phrase that, you are what you eat.  The only person that treats Gregor nicely is his sister Grete who doesn't forget how good he really is.  But still, his family did not save its money well, the money that Gregor earned for them, but now since they have to get jobs, and are basically deadbeats, still Gregor is the one feeling bad...for failing them.  His emotions and selflessness are very confusing.

My thoughts on class discussion

I think the free discussion was really productive because the flow of the classroom was very mellow but interactive. I enjoyed the fact that we were not being prevented or judged from speaking but as we'll being able to learn from each other in a more interactive setting. I feel like nobody really talked over anybody just everybody wanted to get in their ideas and it was in a sense an idea over load

The Metamorphosis

Gregor Samsa wakes as a bug.  I feel its ironic because the way he is described makes this human being feel and seem like nothing and one who only carries stress and burden in which no accounts for him, even though he is human size.  You see his tasks are amplified as they are not all as easy if he were to be human.  He also has to provide for his parents who can't afford to provide for him.  Although a dire situation, ironic that the bug which is typically the hardest worker of the food chain/animal kingdom, is working to the bone to help provide sand survive.

Essay: Conclusion

Freud wrote that aggressiveness and desire are things we are born with, but can slowly learn to suppress.  Yet he also believes that you need to free yourself to be who you really are, ironic yet ideas that challenge the real thought of who we are as human beings.  In the novel Heart of Darkness, we are able to see Freud's writing come to work as we are given the images of men who are put on both sides of the table and are able to free themselves and in the end have to bring themselves back to their reserved lives.  Together both pieces of literature support one another as they establish the idea, humans are part of nature just like all other animals and the trees around them, and us acting normal is surprisingly abnormal, and for us to be who we truly we must not judge one another, yet it is this unnatural thought that will keep us from being who we need to be.

Essay: Body Paragraph 2

In the novel "Heart of Darkness", Conrad shows the different classes of life.  He presents broad extremes that range from the 5 wealthy men from England to the low, poor, uneducated, cannibalistic    villagers of Africa.  Yet Conrad uses these two extremes to make an enormous comparison that feeds directly of the ideas of Freud, which is that no matter how wealthy you are or how poor you are, all people are the same, because they are all born with the natural aggressiveness that causes us to act like savages and animals.  The way we see these actions take place is the use of Conrad inserting Marlow into the story which allows us to have an eyes and ears in the novel.  Through Marlow we not only see a developing story but the reader feels the story as they are in a point of view for the story where they experience what happens hands on.  Marlow's shift from Europe to Africa changes not because of his surroundings purse but because he is finally released into the wild where his id is free to roam and explore and truly develop.  Marlow's transformation proves Freud's point of the inability of humans to detach themselves from their natural ways.  Freud develops the idea that we are all born with natural instinct and this addresses human beings as not people but parts of the animal kingdom.  As well, through Marlow we see changes in others as the rich become desperate and greedy and let their superegos, that which is not spoken or done, take over them, and as end result end them.  Throughout the novel the shift between dark and light is drastic and simply enough epitomizes Freuds theory of superego and id, where the superego is what we cannot say or do (dark) the id is what we are born to do (light) and everything, as Marlow comes back to Europe, always has to commit towards the center of balance, the ego.

1st Body Paragraph

Freud presents the human world as something not human at all.  Freud develops the aggressiveness and naturally that all people around the world, whether they are the richest or the poorest, Freud believes and writes that they are all just animals.  We live in nature, but it is disguised by all the tall buildings and material wealth that we come to consume, believe, and assume are our everyday lives.  Accordingly, Freud believes that humans adjust to there surroundings and aren't able to truly express themselves.  This suppression of feeling, only builds up tension and results in our true and raw animalistic behaviors but come out in the forms of greed, love, hate, sex, violence, and much more where we think are very complicated and belong in our super-ego and should not be thought of or done until it leaks over into our ego, but is truly in our id, which Freud describes to be, our true ego, just we do not have the space to literally and figuratively "spread our wings and fly".

Essay Intro

In Freud's theory, all human beings are born equal.  As ironic as it sounds it is true, but not in rights, but in our mind, body, and soul.  Freud stresses that human beings are born with natural aggression, unable to control ourselves, similar to animals in the wild, unaware of their primary surroundings and must learn to adjust and become "the norm".  Freud implies that we as human beings are our own downfalls and darknesses.  We let our desires and are fears shape who we are and the only way to change is to see how others are; to judge and to learn.  This thought is similar to the way Conrad writes "Heart of Darkness" as he uses Marlow as our stationary eyes that show us the greed, fear, and natural aggression that Freud talks about.  Conrad displays the idea of learning from these incidents that Marlow sees in his life.  He shows that men can be who they are in the wild (there natural habitats) but must restrain themselves once they are back into the social norm.  Freud develops the ideas of the world being a jungle in its own right and that is where humans belong, where they lack judgement and have the capability of being themselves and this is similar to what Conrad writes because in his writing he shows what it truly means to be free, as Marlow travels "to hell and back".