The Social Exclusion Fact in Franz Kafka’s ‘’The Metamorphosis ‘’ / Franz Kafka’nın Dönüşüm’ünde Sosyal Dışlanmışlık Olgusu

Abstract

There is a strong relationship between the individual and society. Individuals comes together to form society and lives within this social structure in which they have formed their lives. In this context, relations and contradictions arise between the individual and society. Social exclusion is also described as a phenomenon that arises from contradictions between the individual and the society. Social exclusion is a concept that became known after 1970’s and is defined as the situation in which an individual can not integrate with the society due to various reasons and is excluded from social life. Literary works’s ability to present details the relations and contradictions between the individual and the society makes it possible to establish a coperation beetween literature and social sciences. Thus, in this study Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) novel was examined within the context of the concept of social exclusion. The story of Gregor Samsa, the hero of the novel, is a story of social exclusion, in which Gregor Samsa was treated as a social exclusionary individual and his family as a micro-scale society. The contradictions leading to social exclusion between society and the individual have been tried to be revealed by analyzing the discourse of heroes of the novel. This work, which has been done, aims to present a different perspective to the The Metamorphosis (1915) novel from previous works.

Keywords

• Franz Kafka
• The Metamorphosis
• social exclusion
• society
• novel