The Metamorphosis’ is an absurdist novella by Franz Kafka. It

used a metaphor of humans transforming into an insect to depict
the alienation and exploitation of our egos and existence
in contemporary society.
Inspired by the notion of transforming scales, this narration
translates the social dilemma in Oakland into an urban-scale
complex of social operation. The analogy compressed the
social context into four stages of acts, endlessly performs the
abstraction of dwelling, socializing, working, and producing.