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Responsible for Gregor's death?

Who is responsible for Gregor's death? To what exptent do you think he is responsible? HELP I DONT REALLY KNOW?
Posted by joy t #64295 at Sep 28, 2008 12:34 PM || Report this post || Reply

   Do you remeber the dish of milk offered by his sister ,it was deliberately poisoned by Gregor's mother.she seemed to be inoccent all the time,but she planned in dark to get rid of him by poisoning his milk.Gregor did'nt drink but he only tasted it which was quite enough to make him die gradually and divert suspicion from the mother.
  Kafka himself mentioned it in a letter he sent me.
  believe me the life cycle of such insect is so short,so the nature also may take a part of that responsibilities.
Posted by m z #64501 at Oct 01, 2008 5:37 PM || Report this post || Reply

Gregor is responsible for his own death because his buggy-ness is merely the physical manifestation of who he really was anyways.
Posted by jackson b #75727 at Jan 09, 2009 11:09 PM || Report this post || Reply

the realization that his father..his family does not love him, ? so i guesss you would say he is responsible, yes.
Posted by sarah f #84963 at Mar 19, 2009 1:08 AM || Report this post || Reply

the milk theory is completely ridicules. gregor starves himself to death in order to prevent the suffering of his family. he realizes that they are better off without him. the family not loving him does apply because it is once his sister betrays him and says he is just hurting them that he realizes he is not changing back and that he is isolated from them
Posted by grete s #93337 at May 13, 2009 11:55 AM || Report this post || Reply

 

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