Over the weekend I read 'The Metamorphosis', in all honesty i found it very strange and a bit surreal. The story is something of which you would never imagine possible, something that you don't ever think will actually happen. Being that one morning Gregor woke up no longer human and he was a giant insect, he was unable to do anything that he was previously able to do, he couldnt leave his house, basically he no longer had anything to live for, he was stuck in a room all day everyday.
I quite liked this story purely because there is a lot of meaning behind it, its quite similar to that of a human cyborg. If Gregor were to go outside into the real world, he quite obviously get strange looks of people, people would wonder 'what' he was, nobody would ever look at him like a normal person, he was far from it and he proboably would never of been accepted for what he had become. Although this isnt like what would happen with human cyborg's it is similar in the respect that people who have 'cyborg' mechanical body parts such as prosthetic legs, arms, feet, hands or any other body part as well as things like cameras implanted within them would most probably get funny looks off people, people are going to stop and look at them as they are different from everybody else, they have a part of them that is mechanical, its a forign object - one that they weren't born with.
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