“Birkaç Dakika İçinde İyi Olacağım”: Franz Kafka’nın Dönüşüm Eserinde Yabancılaşma, İzolasyon ve Aile Dinamikleri

Year 2025, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 67 - 73, 29.12.2025

Megan Varney

https://doi.org/10.62425/korpus.1816202

Abstract

Kafka'nın Dönüşüm adlı eseri, modern çağda iş yerinde yabancılaşma, kentsel izolasyon ve aile dinamikleri gibi temaları etkili bir şekilde araştırır; modern hayatın koşullarını eleştirmek için retorik sorular, betimlemeler ve paralellik gibi çeşitli edebi araç ve teknikleri kullanır. Bu yaklaşım, 20. yüzyıl toplumunun metni nasıl karşıladığını etkilemiştir. Bu argüman, tarihsel bağlam, birincil metinlerin edebi analizi, birincil metinlerin karşılaştırmalı analizi, kültürel değerlerin incelenmesi, sosyoekonomik analiz ve yabancılaşma ile kimlik gibi temaların incelenmesi yoluyla desteklenmiştir. Dönüşüm’ün tarihsel bağlamını ve kültürel değerlerini incelediğimizde, onun bugünkü toplumdaki bu sorunları anlamamıza nasıl yardımcı olduğunu görürüz. Bu analiz önemlidir çünkü değişim yabancılaşmaya yol açabilir, ancak bireyler bunun mutluluk ve başarılarını nasıl etkileyeceğini seçebilir.

Keywords

Yabancılaşma , İzolasyon , Aile Dinamikleri , Metamorfoz , Alman Edebiyatı

“I’ll Be All Right in a Few Moments”: Alienation, Isolation, and Family Dynamics in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

Abstract

Kafka's The Metamorphosis effectively explores themes of workplace alienation, urban isolation, and family dynamics within the Modern era, employing a range of literary devices and techniques, such as rhetorical questioning, imagery, and parallelism, to critique the conditions of modern life. This approach impacted how 20th-century society received the text. This argument is substantiated through historical context, literary analysis of primary texts, comparative analysis of primary texts, examination of cultural values, socioeconomic analysis, and exploration of themes such as alienation and identity. By examining The Metamorphosis’s historical context and cultural values, we see how it helps us understand these issues in today’s society. This analysis is important because change can lead to alienation, but individuals can choose how it affects their happiness and success.

Keywords

Alienation , Isolation , Family Dynamics , Metamorphosis , German Literature

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