Why You Can’t Trust Good People | Kafka's Metamorphosis
Resumen
TLDRVideo analüüsib Franz Kafka novelli "Metamorfoos", kus peategelane Gregor Samsa ärkab ühel hommikul, olles muutunud hiiglaslikuks putukaks. Analüüs keskendub sellele, kuidas Gregori perekond teda hülgab ning kuidas hirm ja häbi mõjutavad mitte ainult Gregorit, vaid ka tema pereliikmeid. Kõneleja arutleb hirmu, häbi ja ühiskonna rollide üle ning kuidas need võivad olla destruktiivsed jõud inimpsüühikas. Samuti käsitletakse teemade kaudu eksistentsiaalset filosoofiat ja inimloomuse sageli varjatumaid külgi.
Para llevar
- 🐞 Gregor Samsa ärkab hiiglasliku putukana.
- 😨 Hirm võib muutuda vihaks ja hävitada inimestevahelised suhted.
- 💔 Perekond hülgab Gregori tema muutuse tõttu.
- 😢 Häbi ja sotsiaalsed normid võivad olla tugevalt painutavad.
- 🌀 Gregor kogeb meeleheidet, kui kaotab oma identiteedi.
- ⚖ Filosoofid nagu Freud ja Schopenhauer pakuvad analüüse.
- 💭 Inimestel on kalduvus määrata endale sotsiaalseid rolle.
- 🔍 Eksistentsialistlikud küsimused tähenduse otsingust.
- 🚨 Ei tohi alahinnata häbi ja hirmu mõju.
- 📚 Kafka kriitika ühiskonna kohta on terav ja ajatruu.
Cronología
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Gregor Samsa ärkab hommikul, olles muutunud hiiglaslikuks putukaks, mis põhjustab tema peres hirmu ja vastikustunnet. Kafka "Metamorfoosis" uuritakse, kuidas hirm võib muuta viha ja kuidas inimliku olemuse kõige inetumad küljed võivad avalduda. Gregor, kes oli varem pere peamine toitja, tunneb nüüd, et tema väärtus on kadunud. Tema isa hirm Gregori vastu väljendub vägivallas, mis lõpuks viib Gregori surmani.
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Gregor kaotab oma identiteedi ja uhkuse, kui temalt võetakse ära roll, milles ta end määratles. Ta langeb meeleheitesse, kuna ei suuda enam täita oma sotsiaalset rolli toitjana. Kafka näitab, kuidas ühiskondlikud rollid võivad olla kahe teraga mõõk, pakkudes nii rõõmu kui ka hävitades, kui neid ei suudeta enam täita. See peegeldab sügavamalt, kuidas ühiskondlikud ootused ja võimetus nendega sammu pidada võivad viia sügava psüühilise kriisini.
Mapa mental
Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas
Kes on "Metamorfoosi" peategelane?
Peategelane on Gregor Samsa, kes ärkab ühel hommikul ja avastab, et on muutunud hiiglaslikuks putukaks.
Mis teemasid novell käsitleb?
Novell käsitleb teemasid nagu hirmu mõju psüühikale, dehumaniseerumine, häbi ja ühiskonna rollide mõju.
Kuidas Gregori perekond temasse pärast muutumist suhtub?
Gregor Samsa perekond tunneb vastikust ja hirmu, nad isoleerivad ta ja kohtlevad teda halvasti.
Millise filosoofi teooriaid mainitakse videos?
Videos mainitakse Sigmund Freudi ja Arthur Schopenhaueri teooriaid.
Mida sümboliseerib Gregor Samsa muutumine putukaks?
Gregor Samsa muutumine putukaks sümboliseerib ühiskondlikest rollidest ja ootustest tekkinud hirme ja häbi.
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- 00:00:00as Gregor samza awoke one morning from
- 00:00:02uneasy dreams he found himself
- 00:00:04transformed in his bed into a giant
- 00:00:07insect so begins kafka's metamorphosis
- 00:00:10it is the story of a man who by some
- 00:00:12unknown magical means has overnight been
- 00:00:14transformed into a monstrous insect the
- 00:00:17sight of which repulses everyone around
- 00:00:19him it follows how he copes with the
- 00:00:20change how his family treats him and
- 00:00:22ultimately shows some of the ugliest s
- 00:00:24of humanity I've ever read in a book
- 00:00:27through kafka's novel we will learn
- 00:00:28about the effects of fear on the human
- 00:00:30psyche how dehumanization can break a
- 00:00:32mind and how all of us can be more cruel
- 00:00:35and destructive than we realize but
- 00:00:37first let's set the scene the novel
- 00:00:38follows four main characters there is
- 00:00:41Gregor the traveling salesman who
- 00:00:42unfortunately is now a dung beetle his
- 00:00:44sister Greta a fundamentally kind person
- 00:00:47whose personality is eventually warped
- 00:00:49into something much cruler and less
- 00:00:50caring Gregor's father who is deeply
- 00:00:52fearful of Gregor and wants to ensure
- 00:00:54that he remains shut away where the
- 00:00:56world cannot see him and Gregor's mother
- 00:00:58who wants to care for him but is so
- 00:01:00broken by the whole ordeal that she's
- 00:01:01mainly found weeping in a corner a
- 00:01:03cheerful cast for a cheerful book so
- 00:01:05without further Ado let's get started
- 00:01:07one the danger of fear the Austrian
- 00:01:10founder of psychoanalysis Sigman Freud
- 00:01:12once theorized that if repressed or left
- 00:01:14unmanaged Fear Can quickly morph into
- 00:01:17anger and this is still held by
- 00:01:18therapists to this day think about it if
- 00:01:20you are fearful you're detecting a
- 00:01:22threat and you want to run away from it
- 00:01:23this is the flight part of the fal
- 00:01:25flight response if it is clear that you
- 00:01:27cannot run then the only option left is
- 00:01:29to fight and the fear must transform
- 00:01:31into anger if it's to be any use to you
- 00:01:34and this is exactly how Kafka
- 00:01:35demonstrates the disastrous effects that
- 00:01:37fear can have on the Mind Gregor fondly
- 00:01:39remembers how his family behaved to him
- 00:01:41before his transformation he was the
- 00:01:43sole bread winner of the household and
- 00:01:45he says this granted him a place of
- 00:01:47respect in the family his father and
- 00:01:49mother were proud of him his sister
- 00:01:50admired him he was loved adored and
- 00:01:53respected but all of this changed with
- 00:01:55the simple application of fear at first
- 00:01:58there is the simple fear from his family
- 00:01:59that he could no longer work he can no
- 00:02:01longer bring them income as a result
- 00:02:03they would each have to find their own
- 00:02:04employment which was a frightening
- 00:02:06Prospect for each of them and there is a
- 00:02:07far more profound fear lurking just
- 00:02:10below the surface they were scared of
- 00:02:12the sight of Gregor this was not just
- 00:02:14because of his repulsive appearance but
- 00:02:16more importantly what he represented he
- 00:02:19was the form of someone that they loved
- 00:02:21Twisted in such a way that he was
- 00:02:23totally unrecognizable perhaps it was
- 00:02:25also the suddenness of his
- 00:02:26transformation that terrified them he
- 00:02:28was a reminder that life can fall apart
- 00:02:30at any moment with no warning and no way
- 00:02:33of going back to the way things were
- 00:02:35whatever the original C of the fear it
- 00:02:37quickly mors into a destructive
- 00:02:39Whirlwind of anger and hatred first they
- 00:02:41do not even do Gregor the Dignity of
- 00:02:43looking at him they isolate him in his
- 00:02:45room with only his sister occasionally
- 00:02:47cleaning it and bringing him some odd
- 00:02:49scrap of food that had been left out he
- 00:02:51is kept in his room by means of violence
- 00:02:53if necessary with his father beating him
- 00:02:55back there with a stick if he dares try
- 00:02:57to escape in one pivotal scene Gregor
- 00:02:59G's father becomes so enraged at his
- 00:03:02presence that he throws an Apple at
- 00:03:03Gregor which lodges itself in his back
- 00:03:05this is the wound that will eventually
- 00:03:07become infected and kill Gregor so
- 00:03:10potent is the Father's fear and rage
- 00:03:12that he murders his own son and after
- 00:03:14Gregor is dead the family breathes a
- 00:03:16sigh of relief as the source of their
- 00:03:18fear has vanished after a brief morning
- 00:03:20period they Rejoice that the beetle is
- 00:03:22gone from their lives and they Scurry
- 00:03:24off to another place moving on to
- 00:03:26greener pastures Kafka here does a
- 00:03:28wonderful job of showing us a truly ugly
- 00:03:31part of human nature often the things we
- 00:03:33fear and thus strike out against have
- 00:03:35not done anything wrong we generally
- 00:03:36fear things because they are unfamiliar
- 00:03:38to us and threaten Us in some way
- 00:03:40whether that is intentional or not
- 00:03:42Gregor's father fears Gregor because if
- 00:03:44anyone were to see the beetle they would
- 00:03:46think of the family as unclean but
- 00:03:48that's hardly Gregor's fault nonetheless
- 00:03:50the fear did turn to anger and hate in
- 00:03:52the father's mind and the exact same
- 00:03:54thing can happen to us I don't think
- 00:03:56kfka is being so simplistic as to say
- 00:03:58that fear and anger are always bad after
- 00:04:01all if somebody is trying to attack you
- 00:04:02in the streets then fear and anger are
- 00:04:04perfectly appropriate responses but he
- 00:04:06does warn us that neither fear nor anger
- 00:04:08need be rational and we should be aware
- 00:04:10of the effects they can have both on
- 00:04:12those around us and on ourselves but
- 00:04:14what of Gregor's own feelings well that
- 00:04:16is what we shall move on to next if you
- 00:04:18want more on philosophy and the art of
- 00:04:20learning subscribe to my email list the
- 00:04:22link is in the description two societal
- 00:04:24roles and pride I once knew someone who
- 00:04:27desperately wanted to become a dancer he
- 00:04:29worked in incredibly hard on it and
- 00:04:30there was no doubts that he was on his
- 00:04:32way to becoming a star but then one day
- 00:04:34in a freak car accident he broke both
- 00:04:36his legs while they would healed he
- 00:04:37would never have the same sort of
- 00:04:39Mobility that he used to and his budding
- 00:04:41dance career was over robbed of this
- 00:04:43dream he fell into a deep depression
- 00:04:45that took him a very long time to get
- 00:04:46out of he only managed it when he found
- 00:04:48a new identity that was just as strong
- 00:04:50as his old one as a dancer he is now a
- 00:04:52physicist and he takes just as much joy
- 00:04:54in that as he ever did in the stage the
- 00:04:56point is that deprived of the thing that
- 00:04:58he hung his identity upon he became
- 00:05:00miserable and he found a way out of that
- 00:05:02with a brand new identity and I think we
- 00:05:04can all relate to this sort of
- 00:05:06experience we all have certain pillars
- 00:05:08upon which we build our sense of self we
- 00:05:10might take great pride in how loving or
- 00:05:12caring we are or the depths of our
- 00:05:13empathy Mike Tyson said he used to take
- 00:05:15great pride in the fact that he could
- 00:05:17beat almost anyone in a fight the point
- 00:05:19is that when these things are taken away
- 00:05:20from us it is no wonder that this causes
- 00:05:22us great psychological harm and no one
- 00:05:24illustrates this point better than Kafka
- 00:05:27after his transformation Gregor's mind
- 00:05:28is filled with with anxiety about his
- 00:05:30identity he is no longer able to provide
- 00:05:32for his family he cannot work he doesn't
- 00:05:34even appear human anymore what was once
- 00:05:36his favorite food is now repulsive to
- 00:05:38him while rotten vegetables somehow
- 00:05:40taste delicious it is no wonder that he
- 00:05:42feels so miserable when everything he
- 00:05:44defined himself by has been taken away
- 00:05:46and I want to focus on this role he has
- 00:05:48in providing for his family because I
- 00:05:50think it helps demonstrate the
- 00:05:51double-edged sword of the roles we think
- 00:05:53we should play on the one hand the
- 00:05:55social role has worked very well for him
- 00:05:57so far when he was able to provide he
- 00:05:59felt immense joy and fulfillment and
- 00:06:01since his role was also supported by his
- 00:06:03family he had immense respect from them
- 00:06:04but now he can no longer provide no
- 00:06:06longer fulfill the role he and others
- 00:06:08think he should have he falls into a
- 00:06:10profound type of Despair schopenhauer
- 00:06:13says that since humans have the ability
- 00:06:14to think and reflect they have the
- 00:06:16ability to multiply their Joys and their
- 00:06:18losses by assigning themselves things
- 00:06:20that they must achieve when they achieve
- 00:06:22their goal they feel an immediate sense
- 00:06:23of Joy which then quickly Fades as
- 00:06:25another goal takes its place but when we
- 00:06:27do not live up to our expected
- 00:06:29accomplishments this can plunge us into
- 00:06:31a deep despair shophow uses this to take
- 00:06:34a somewhat pessimistic view on The Human
- 00:06:36Condition but I am a little bit more
- 00:06:37optimistic than that people find it very
- 00:06:40difficult to live without having
- 00:06:41something to strive towards this is
- 00:06:42partly what kamu meant when he wanted us
- 00:06:44to imagine sisifus happy we naturally
- 00:06:46take meaning from the process of
- 00:06:48overcoming obstacles conquering
- 00:06:49challenges and achieving a goal no
- 00:06:51matter how big or small that goal is
- 00:06:53fully recognizing that this challenge
- 00:06:55will soon be replaced by another one but
- 00:06:56what happens when we have goals that are
- 00:06:58just out of our reach reach or we have
- 00:07:00goals assigned to us by others that we
- 00:07:01simply have no interest in or there are
- 00:07:03roles we have which are difficult to get
- 00:07:05out of if our circumstances change and
- 00:07:07others will judge us if we even try to I
- 00:07:09don't pretend to have the answers here
- 00:07:11but existential philosophy offers us
- 00:07:12many Avenues of thought that we could
- 00:07:14pursue we could be like satra and argue
- 00:07:16that an authentic life or we refuse to
- 00:07:18play any role that does not suit us is
- 00:07:20the best route to fulfillment we could
- 00:07:21be like n and try to forge new values
- 00:07:24for ourselves standing apart from the
- 00:07:26rest of humanity and strengthening our
- 00:07:27Will To Power we could be like Camu and
- 00:07:30think we must move past the question of
- 00:07:31meaning altogether personally I largely
- 00:07:34think the path is individual I don't
- 00:07:36think that existential philosophy should
- 00:07:37be a command given by a general but
- 00:07:39rather a gentle suggestion from a kindly
- 00:07:41old friend but no one quite brings these
- 00:07:43existential questions of meaning and
- 00:07:45rooll to life quite like Kafka and
- 00:07:48that's probably why his books still echo
- 00:07:49in our ears today but the delicate way
- 00:07:51Kafka charts the progression of Gregor's
- 00:07:54misery is its own work of genius and
- 00:07:56that is what I want to move on to next
- 00:07:58three Gregor's despair we have all known
- 00:08:01despair in our lives that creeping
- 00:08:03feeling that our existences have become
- 00:08:05unpleasant and malformed that we no
- 00:08:07longer have access to the hope that
- 00:08:09sustains our joy that we have been
- 00:08:11abandoned and rejected by those around
- 00:08:13us with no hope of being loved or
- 00:08:15cherished again and the character of
- 00:08:16Gregor himself is a wonderful case study
- 00:08:19into such a terrible mental state as I
- 00:08:21mentioned in the previous section his
- 00:08:22initial reaction to his transformation
- 00:08:24is that of mourning his old life he
- 00:08:26Longs for the days where he was a human
- 00:08:28being who could sustain himself provide
- 00:08:30for his family and interact with other
- 00:08:32people as his peers but it is
- 00:08:34interesting to see just how his despair
- 00:08:36changes throughout the book at first
- 00:08:38while he is miserable and anxious he
- 00:08:40still shows a profound care for his
- 00:08:42family notably his sister when he
- 00:08:44realizes she finds him disgusting to
- 00:08:46look at and is scared in his presence he
- 00:08:48hides under the sofa while she is around
- 00:08:50despite it all he still has a love in
- 00:08:52his heart for his family and his fellow
- 00:08:54man but as he sinks deeper and deeper
- 00:08:56into Despair and as his family's
- 00:08:58attitude towards him does not shift his
- 00:09:00Outlook changes whereas before he had
- 00:09:02fored himself into thinking that his
- 00:09:04loved ones were just getting over the
- 00:09:05shock of his transformation and he would
- 00:09:07soon be welcomed back into the fold with
- 00:09:09open arms now he is disabused of any
- 00:09:11such notion and he reacts with
- 00:09:14understandable spitefulness instead of
- 00:09:16hiding himself away he becomes
- 00:09:17rebellious he climbs up onto the wall to
- 00:09:19frighten his sister or mother because he
- 00:09:21wants to reassert himself into their
- 00:09:23world he wants to say I am here
- 00:09:25acknowledge me he wants what we all want
- 00:09:27from our loved ones which is for the
- 00:09:29them to notice us and respect us as
- 00:09:31equals this reaches a climax when he
- 00:09:33escapes the room that he's been locked
- 00:09:34in and scuttles around the kitchen this
- 00:09:36is the point where his father finds him
- 00:09:38and throws the Apple that will
- 00:09:40eventually kill him from Gregor's
- 00:09:41perspective he has gone from being
- 00:09:43ignored and abandoned to being outright
- 00:09:45hated and this is what prompts the final
- 00:09:47stage of his despair eventually Gregor
- 00:09:49just gives up his Spirit has been broken
- 00:09:51and he sinks fully into the depths of
- 00:09:53his mind this is where he loses the will
- 00:09:55to live entirely he stops eating he
- 00:09:57stops moving almost all together and he
- 00:09:59seems to just be waiting to die he aches
- 00:10:02all over from his father's abuse and he
- 00:10:04Longs for the day when the pain will go
- 00:10:06away when he will be allowed to slip
- 00:10:08peacefully from this world into the arms
- 00:10:10of Oblivion and there is a huge amount
- 00:10:12of wisdom to be gleaned from Gregor's
- 00:10:14Journey here it is a fantastic analysis
- 00:10:16of how the process of social abandonment
- 00:10:18and hostility can cause people both to
- 00:10:20rebel and eventually to despair we see
- 00:10:22this all the time in the actual world
- 00:10:24how many people do you know who are
- 00:10:26filled with Spite and hatred because of
- 00:10:28how they perceive that others have
- 00:10:29treated them kard talks of a kind of
- 00:10:31person who is so completely consumed by
- 00:10:33their own Despair and misery that they
- 00:10:35lash out at the world itself and hate
- 00:10:38everything in it for how filled with
- 00:10:39suffering their life has become this is
- 00:10:41the second stage of Gregor's pain his
- 00:10:43Fury and his indignation and when the
- 00:10:46fury has all been expelled when someone
- 00:10:48has tried everything to get others to
- 00:10:49notice and acknowledge them and none of
- 00:10:51it has worked that is when they cannot
- 00:10:53do anything but sink deeper and deeper
- 00:10:55into their sadness so perhaps we should
- 00:10:57be very conscious of just how painful
- 00:11:00abandonment can be and we should ensure
- 00:11:02we are very careful about abandoning
- 00:11:03people in our own lives but there is one
- 00:11:05pervading force that colors the entire
- 00:11:07book and I simply cannot let it go
- 00:11:09unexamined four shame think back to a
- 00:11:12time where you did something really
- 00:11:14embarrassing when your cheeks flushed
- 00:11:16red and you felt the eyes of the world
- 00:11:18upon you I remember once a few years ago
- 00:11:20I was in a social situation and I made a
- 00:11:22rather juvenile Your mom joke at an
- 00:11:24acquaintance I had completely forgotten
- 00:11:26that their mother had actually passed
- 00:11:27away earlier that year as it happens he
- 00:11:29was not in the least offended or upset
- 00:11:31but I distinctly remember the shame I
- 00:11:33felt at having been so thoughtless it is
- 00:11:36still one of those moments that my brain
- 00:11:37sadistically coners up in my mind's eye
- 00:11:39as I'm trying to get to sleep and the
- 00:11:41memory of the shame I felt is burnt into
- 00:11:43my psyche I'm sure there are many times
- 00:11:45in your life where you felt similarly it
- 00:11:47is almost a universal experience of
- 00:11:49being human and no one brings this out
- 00:11:51quite like Kafka the whole of
- 00:11:53metamorphosis is dominated by The Shame
- 00:11:55of the characters there is Gregor's
- 00:11:57shame at not being able to provide at
- 00:11:59his disgusting appearance and how he
- 00:12:00makes his family feel there is the
- 00:12:02Father's shame at having to take up a
- 00:12:04servant position in a bank and how this
- 00:12:06makes him all the more willing to use
- 00:12:07Force to control his cursed son there is
- 00:12:09the mother's shame and not being able to
- 00:12:11look upon her darling boy anymore at
- 00:12:13being terrified of the sight of her own
- 00:12:15offspring there is the shame of the
- 00:12:17family as a whole that deprived of
- 00:12:19Gregor's income they've had to take
- 00:12:20three Lodgers into their home who talk
- 00:12:22down to them in their own living room
- 00:12:24the entire cast of the novel feels a
- 00:12:26deep shame at almost every aspect of
- 00:12:28their existence and in highlighting this
- 00:12:30Kafka makes a devastating critique of
- 00:12:32how the individual rubs up against
- 00:12:33society and the dark side of this
- 00:12:35interaction the philosopher Thomas Hobbs
- 00:12:37wrote in his Landmark text Leviathan
- 00:12:39that he thought human beings surrendered
- 00:12:41their freedom and agreed to take up
- 00:12:42certain roles in order to reap all the
- 00:12:44benefits of living in a peaceful Society
- 00:12:46so you give up the ability to do
- 00:12:48whatever you want you agree to pay taxes
- 00:12:50and so on and in return Society promises
- 00:12:53the order will be maintained and no one
- 00:12:54will break into your house and kill you
- 00:12:56or at the very least it promises to do
- 00:12:58its very best best to stop this from
- 00:13:00happening but many thinkers have
- 00:13:01criticized this picture after all we
- 00:13:03often did not explicitly agree to our
- 00:13:05societal obligations and sometimes they
- 00:13:07appear more imposed from the outside
- 00:13:09than achieved by Mutual consent ner
- 00:13:11famously argued that social obligations
- 00:13:13kept exceptional or unusual people from
- 00:13:15achieving great things and Kafka brings
- 00:13:17out one method that Society uses to
- 00:13:19enforce its values upon us the
- 00:13:21application of Shame Shame is almost
- 00:13:23like the internalized gaze of the values
- 00:13:25of whatever culture you happen to live
- 00:13:27in so if you lived in a theocracy you
- 00:13:29would feel shame over any religious
- 00:13:30doubts you have and if you lived in a
- 00:13:31culture that really valued long hair
- 00:13:33then you'd feel a deep shame at going
- 00:13:34Bal but kafka's novel brings out just
- 00:13:36how destructive all of this shaming can
- 00:13:38be the source of the family's shame is
- 00:13:40Gregor's transformation and it is this
- 00:13:42shame coupled with the fear that I
- 00:13:43mentioned earlier that causes them to
- 00:13:45ignore ostracize and abuse Gregor and
- 00:13:48eventually means that they celebrate his
- 00:13:49death kfka through his writings here and
- 00:13:52his other works like the trial explores
- 00:13:53how shame is neither an inherently moral
- 00:13:56nor immoral force it is a completely
- 00:13:58amoral tool that can be used for extreme
- 00:14:00good or extreme evil depending on the
- 00:14:02society and who is wielding the force of
- 00:14:05Shame so characteristically of Kafka he
- 00:14:07gives us a stark warning be wary of
- 00:14:10Shame be wary of feeling ashamed and
- 00:14:13most of all be wary of how you shame
- 00:14:15others you never know how this shame
- 00:14:17will impact them or what horrible Deeds
- 00:14:19they will do to be free of it and if you
- 00:14:21want more on Kafka check out this video
- 00:14:23where I talk about the trial and stick
- 00:14:25around for more on thinking to improve
- 00:14:27your life
- Kafka
- Metamorfoos
- hirm
- häbi
- dehumaniseerumine
- Freud
- Schopenhauer
- ühiskonna rollid
- inimpsüühika
- eksistentsialism