Category: Kafka

Alienation is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Alienation is a central theme that Franz Kafka discusses in his story Metamorphosis from the beginning all the way to the end when the main character, Gregor, dies…

A major problem confronting readers of Kafka’s short stories is to find a way through the increasingly dense thicket of interpretations. Among the many approaches one encounters is that of the autobiographical approach. This interpretation claims that Kafka’s works are little more than reflections of his lifelong tension between bachelorhood and marriage or, on another…

Introduction to Bureaucracy in “The Trial” Written at the beginning of the 20th century The Trial depicts the rise of bureaucracy, the power of law, and the atomization of the individual, which are allegorically reflected in a story about Joseph K., a bank employee who is accused of unspecified crimes. This rather surreal and pessimistic…

There is sadness that force you to sleep, sadness that force you to cry, but the deepest kind of sadness the one you cant let go of that forces you to write. Writing sometimes is a silent scream to all the buried words and repressed feelings inside of us but its the strongest sensations that…

In the novel, Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, the protagonist Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old Japanese, runs away from home intending to escape his fathers curse, which is that he will sleep with his sister and mather, then kill his father. During the escape, Kafka ran into multiple chaotic situations, and he managed to…

Abstract This study focuses on the literature novels written by Franz Kafka and Thomes more. Firstly, I will try to focus on corruption and deterioration on society within both books Utopia and Trial. This corruption in society leads to the new words Utopia and Dystopia.Secondly, I will focus the meaning and roles these words in…