What would it mean to read both Gregor and Bartleby as tragic figures of modernity?

What would it mean to read both Gregor and Bartleby as tragic figures of modernity? In what ways do their respective authors hold them up to us readers as tragic heroes? (Pleasenote: A tragic hero was defined by Aristotle as a figure whose lack of knowledge, deficiency of virtue, or excess of character leads him or her to ruin and/or destruction.) In what ways are these two characters the victims to the social and cultural circumstances to which they belong? How do Kafka (author of Metamorphasis) and Melville (author of Bartleby) indicate this to us as readers? In what ways do they use these characters to comment upon the nature of (office) work and modern society moregenerally? Write an argumentative essay putting any stance forward using the above questions as a prompt(s).Here are the official directions for the assignmentPlease note: these essay prompts are designed to stimulate the development of your own views on the work in question, and so simply answering the questions posed in each prompt is insufficient for the purposes of this assignment. It is vitally important that in developing your reading of the novel, that you substantiate it by means of textual evidence, which you must cite and explain.