The Social Exclusion Fact in Franz Kafka’s ‘’The Metamorphosis ‘’ Cover Image

Franz Kafka’nın Dönüşüm’ünde Sosyal Dışlanmışlık Olgusu
The Social Exclusion Fact in Franz Kafka’s ‘’The Metamorphosis ‘’

Author(s): Mehmet Emin Satır, Enes Bal
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Czech Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Franz Kafka; The Metamorphosis; social exclusion; society; novel;

Summary/Abstract: There is a strong relationship between the individual and society. Individuals comes together to form society and lives within this social structure in which they have formed their lives. In this context, relations and contradictions arise between the individual and society. Social exclusion is also described as a phenomenon that arises from contradictions between the individual and the society. Social exclusion is a concept that became known after 1970’s and is defined as the situation in which an individual can not integrate with the society due to various reasons and is excluded from social life. Literary works’s ability to present details the relations and contradictions between the individual and the society makes it possible to establish a coperation beetween literature and social sciences. Thus, in this study Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) novel was examined within the context of the concept of social exclusion. The story of Gregor Samsa, the hero of the novel, is a story of social exclusion, in which Gregor Samsa was treated as a social exclusionary individual and his family as a micro-scale society.

  • Issue Year: 24/2018
  • Issue No: 96
  • Page Range: 191-200
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish