Franz Kafka’s "The Country Doctor" Commentary by behnam Kafka’s story "The Country Doctor" is one of his most enigmatic‚ because it is one of his most symbolic‚ and his symbols defy easy explanation. The story opens with a kindly physician standing outside his home in "great perplexity"; his horse has died‚ and he has been summoned to see a critically-ill patient some ten miles away. The doctor’s maid has gone to try to borrow a horse‚ but he is sure she will be unsuccessful. The story is introduced
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Vivianna Orsini Eng.298 Prof. Stevens “The tragedy of never finding food that you like” An analysis of A Hunger Artist By Franz Kafka Most people might have trouble seeing fasting as an art form. Fasting is commonly seen as a way to show devotion to God. Often art can be a way to share our suffering with the world. The hunger artist is no different. The virtuosity of the hunger artist was his devotion to God and bringing his audience closer to God by making them suffer
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The main character in Franz Kafka‘s‚ The Metamorphosis‚ experiences a surprising and tragic transformation that cut short his already miserable life. We are first introduced to the main character‚ a traveling salesman named Gregor‚ who awakes in the morning to find he had been transformed into a horrible vermin. Throughout the story‚ Gregor remembers what his life was like prior to his transformation. The author describes Gregor as a traveling salesman who is very hard working and an excellent provider
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Metamorphosis is a psychological drama by Franz Kafka. The existential framework of this story is that Gregor is a failure to himself and his family and himself‚ and falls victim to the psychological consequences of it. With this in mind‚ themes of alienation‚ isolation‚ self determination‚ absurdity of life‚ and limits of suffering start to take place. Gregor’s family seems to blame him for their own failures. The family is struggling financially and relies on Gregor to work and provide for them
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In Metamorphosis‚ by author Franz Kafka’s we come across the protagonist Gregor Samsa who is deemed lowly and helpless. Gregor’s emotional and mental state was triggered by the financial burden due to his father’s decisions‚ the struggle to support his family and the debt to his employer. There are two metamorphoses occurring in the story‚ Gregor transforming into a rodent and the disintegrating of the family unit. Gregor’s struggles in supporting his family and the hardship of dealing with debt
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is a 20th-century philosophical movement‚ which assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves. -The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism. -Franz Kafka was an important literary author in existentialism. His story‚ which is surreal‚ is one of many modernist literary works that was influenced by existentialist philosophy. -The
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Cited: Kafka‚ Franz. "The Metamorphosis." Short Fiction: An Introductory Anthology. Ed. Gerald Lynch and David Rampton‚ ON: 1992. 494-532.
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In the opening line of The Metamorphosis‚ Kafka’s treatment of chaos establishes his vision of the world as going on about its business without regard for the doings of humans. Gregor is the object of a manifestly pointless and arbitrary metamorphosis‚ which he handles as if it were as ordinary any run of the mill event. As he lays in bed‚ having transformed into a bug‚ he considers the future as if it were any other day. “"Oh‚ God"‚ he thought‚ "what a strenuous career it is that I’ve chosen!” His
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The straightforward style of The Metamorphosis gives the story a nightmarish quality. Throughout the chapter‚ he struggles with the task of getting out of bed as an unidentified bug. In chapter 1 paragraph 14‚ it reads‚ “Should he really call for help though‚ even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? Despite all the difficulty he was in‚ he could not suppress a smile at this thought” (ch1 paragraph 14). Gregor is in a serious situation‚ but his alarming new appearance doesn’t seem
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Metamorphosis‚ was written by Franz Kafka‚ and published in 1915. It is a story about a hardworking son(Gregor)‚ who is trying to pay off his father’s debts and take care of his family‚ who one day wakes up to start a journey into becoming a cockroach‚ well‚ a beetle/human hybrid anyway. The story is a part of the expressionism movement‚ which focuses on the inner content of the protagonist. For expressionists‚ the inner reality‚ or the psychological world‚ is takes precedent over the external world
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