In 1883-1910 Czech Republic was under control by Austria. This may have affected Kafka as a young man, as it can damage a young persons mental state, knowing that your an outcaste to society just because of your religion, it’s a experience which most likely sticks with you forever, and in Kafka’s case, it did.

Kafka had a complicated relationship with his father. His father treated him with “indifference and even contempt”. It’s really important to have a good relationship with your family, as it’s mentally healthy for a young person, however, the reason why Kafka always had a antisocial energy to him was because he didn’t have a lot of social experience as a young child, due to things like having a distant relationship with his family. These experiences were often used as a stimulus in his plays. When writing up a script or preparing the plot for one of his plays, he often uses his life experiences to portray his perspective on the world and how his life was. Much of the time, his plays were strong and deep in meaning allowing the audience to also have a different perspective on the world and generally in their daily lives.

Metamorphosis is especially significant to Kafka’s life, as it portrays how humans can be affected by their families, in this case, how his distant relationship with his family affected him. In his play, he reveals to the audience how too much pressure to a human can lead to him/her becoming stressed and straining into a faze they don’t want to be in, in this case, Gregor being forced into a beetles body against his will due to the pressure on him to work and provide for his family. The use of an insect can represent someone who is more vulnerable and so someone who reacts to various emotions differently and it can tear a family apart. Generally no one likes insesct’s, and throughout the play we get more and more of his family neglecting and leaving Gregor to suffer in a form of body which his family are not fond of.