In modern society, people are losing their character and becoming more familiar with uniformity due to scientific technology, mass-media and pop culture designed for utility and convenience. Also they are losing their sense of value as well as the ability to think independently. As a result, they fo...
In modern society, people are losing their character and becoming more familiar with uniformity due to scientific technology, mass-media and pop culture designed for utility and convenience. Also they are losing their sense of value as well as the ability to think independently. As a result, they focus on the mechanization and industrialization of materials and are reduced to ones of means and tools which are composed of the mechanized society. People do not esteem and respect themselves anymore, and experience isolation through which every connection is deprived. Isolation appears when people are controlled passively, rather than when they control themselves, and are reduced to objects, rather than subjects. Works of literature have appeared, which describe isolation of contemporary people vividly through complete identification with the seriousness of the isolation. The representative writers, as mentioned above, are Kafka and Lee Sang. They presuppose that everyone has an inner desire to escape from reality, and show that inner suffering due to isolation can happen to anyone. Isolation is universal, not confined to specific people in 「Metamorphosis」and 「Nalgae」. In「Metamorphosis」by Kafka, Gregor is a salesman who always visits people who are unwilling to see him. He resorts to an alarm clock to get up and lives a boring and repetitive life. Even ant home, he does not empty his mind of the work, but he experiences continuing isolation form work. In「Nalgae」by Lee Sang, "I", unlike Gregor in 「Metamorphosis」, do not have a job and an ability to support his family. He is unemployed and intelligent, and he shows he loses his identity through expressing "stuffed genius" himself. In this situation, Gregor and "I" discover identities through metamorphosis and going out while facing a conflict of identity dissolution. In 「Metamorphosis」, Gregor recognizes the nature of society, and the company to which he belongs, through metamorphosis, and understands his family only to find himself isolated from his family. His family does not try to discover Gregor's spirit and consider him as just a worm even though only his body is metamorphosed into a worm. It leads to his death. Through the work, Kafka highlights the isolation caused by loss of humanity and tries to overcome a realistic conflict through metamorphosed appearance into an animal. Through this work, he reveals and criticizes the absurdity of society and its mean system in which the true identities of people are annihilated. How about the condition of "I" of 「Nalgae」? "I" is not isolated from the work and myself as a supporter of the family as Gregor is, but isolated from society and the wife while separated from the society under the control of the wife. Someday will have an opportunity to go out, which is an escape caused by a doubt about his wife's control and which provides a chance for self-realization by identifying the real identity of his wife. It has something in common with Gregor's self-realization through the metamorphosis, which reveals the hidden things in him. "I", stimulated by going out, turns my eyes to myself and reveals my desire to fly to the rooftop. As mentioned above, it is the contradictions and problems of daily life, which compel them to try to die and desire flying that Kafka and Lee Sang focus on, not metamorphosis, going out, death and desire of flying. Kafka tries to let us know that we are able to change even though we are immersed in standardized and mechanized society, and Lee Sang criticizes isolation of the contemporary society through showing people are beings who have a dream of flying. In other words, through the death and flying of the heros of 「Metamorphosis」 and 「Nalgae」, the authors make a serious consideration of indifference and isolation and give society a scolding and urge it to discover realistic identities. 「Metamorphosis」 and 「Nalgae」 lead readers to construct their own world and to find the real condition. They try to reveal the actual existence of people who strive to find their identities while escaping from the modem society of isolation, mechanization and organized systems caused by the abuse of affluent and material cultures and the development of mechanized civilization.
In modern society, people are losing their character and becoming more familiar with uniformity due to scientific technology, mass-media and pop culture designed for utility and convenience. Also they are losing their sense of value as well as the ability to think independently. As a result, they focus on the mechanization and industrialization of materials and are reduced to ones of means and tools which are composed of the mechanized society. People do not esteem and respect themselves anymore, and experience isolation through which every connection is deprived. Isolation appears when people are controlled passively, rather than when they control themselves, and are reduced to objects, rather than subjects. Works of literature have appeared, which describe isolation of contemporary people vividly through complete identification with the seriousness of the isolation. The representative writers, as mentioned above, are Kafka and Lee Sang. They presuppose that everyone has an inner desire to escape from reality, and show that inner suffering due to isolation can happen to anyone. Isolation is universal, not confined to specific people in 「Metamorphosis」and 「Nalgae」. In「Metamorphosis」by Kafka, Gregor is a salesman who always visits people who are unwilling to see him. He resorts to an alarm clock to get up and lives a boring and repetitive life. Even ant home, he does not empty his mind of the work, but he experiences continuing isolation form work. In「Nalgae」by Lee Sang, "I", unlike Gregor in 「Metamorphosis」, do not have a job and an ability to support his family. He is unemployed and intelligent, and he shows he loses his identity through expressing "stuffed genius" himself. In this situation, Gregor and "I" discover identities through metamorphosis and going out while facing a conflict of identity dissolution. In 「Metamorphosis」, Gregor recognizes the nature of society, and the company to which he belongs, through metamorphosis, and understands his family only to find himself isolated from his family. His family does not try to discover Gregor's spirit and consider him as just a worm even though only his body is metamorphosed into a worm. It leads to his death. Through the work, Kafka highlights the isolation caused by loss of humanity and tries to overcome a realistic conflict through metamorphosed appearance into an animal. Through this work, he reveals and criticizes the absurdity of society and its mean system in which the true identities of people are annihilated. How about the condition of "I" of 「Nalgae」? "I" is not isolated from the work and myself as a supporter of the family as Gregor is, but isolated from society and the wife while separated from the society under the control of the wife. Someday will have an opportunity to go out, which is an escape caused by a doubt about his wife's control and which provides a chance for self-realization by identifying the real identity of his wife. It has something in common with Gregor's self-realization through the metamorphosis, which reveals the hidden things in him. "I", stimulated by going out, turns my eyes to myself and reveals my desire to fly to the rooftop. As mentioned above, it is the contradictions and problems of daily life, which compel them to try to die and desire flying that Kafka and Lee Sang focus on, not metamorphosis, going out, death and desire of flying. Kafka tries to let us know that we are able to change even though we are immersed in standardized and mechanized society, and Lee Sang criticizes isolation of the contemporary society through showing people are beings who have a dream of flying. In other words, through the death and flying of the heros of 「Metamorphosis」 and 「Nalgae」, the authors make a serious consideration of indifference and isolation and give society a scolding and urge it to discover realistic identities. 「Metamorphosis」 and 「Nalgae」 lead readers to construct their own world and to find the real condition. They try to reveal the actual existence of people who strive to find their identities while escaping from the modem society of isolation, mechanization and organized systems caused by the abuse of affluent and material cultures and the development of mechanized civilization.
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