Connections

The connections I can make between The Metamorphosis, “The Judgment,” and Great Expectations are the character’s surroundings shaping who they are and the characters not looking up to their father figure. In “The Judgment” Georg is a grown man who is living with his father who still commands him around and condemns him for his choices. Georg lets this part of his surroundings shape him because he still cowards when his dad yells at him, and even goes so far as to kill himself when his father commands it. Although Georg does as his father commands and wishes that his father liked him more, Georg recognizes his father’s insanity and has no desire to be similar in any sense. In The Metamorphosis Gregor let’s his job of being a salesman who no one likes, physically transform him into a beetle. Gregor doesn’t look up to his father in this story because when he turns into a beetle his father is not sympathetic at all and wants him gone. In Great Expectations, Pip lets his surrounds of gentlemen (and women) transform him into a gentleman who no longer feels any connection to his roots. Pip also no longer looks up to Joe as he did earlier in the book, and now just sees Joe as an unmannered blacksmith.