Social Alienation in Kafka's "Metamorphosis" Many people in today's society let social alienation take over and ruin their lives. Social alienation is the state of being emotionally and socially isolated and dysfunctional with your surroundings. Kafka shows the effects of social alienation through isolation and rejection toward an individual. The Metamorphosis demonstrates the gradual and long term effects of social alienation. When Gregor Samsa, surprisingly wakes up one day, to realize he now has six …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…as a speaker in a German Czech city, as a jew among German Czech Gentiles in a period of ardent nationalism, as a man full of doubts and an unquenched thirst for faith among people with business interests, as a sick man among the healthy, and as a timid and neurasthenic lover in exacting erotic relationships."(Encyclopedia 303) It can be assumed, that Kafka himself is an example of a person leading a socially alienated lifestyle.