Rory Cruz
12/19/16
Extended essay of Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis
Franz Kafka’s work was my favorite of all of the books we have read before. His dark style of writing and use of literary devices was amazing in my eyes, but what in his life caused this? Franz Kafka was born July 3rd, 1883 and died June 3rd, 1924, at the age of 40, from tuberculosis. During Kafka’s life, he was a very disturbed as a child, mainly because he was beaten, not only physically but also mentally. I feel like this definitely influenced his writing into the sick and twisted writing that is Kafkaesque. He lived in Prague, he was born into the middle class with a German speaking Jewish family. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his education, he started …show more content…
Some examples of this is the best one in my opinion is the metamorphosis where he turns into bug and is then disowned by his family which he had taken care of most of his adult life or The Hunger Artist where he fasts for a living and then eventually overlooked because people want to see more exciting forms of entertainment other than seeing a man fast so not knowing anything else he tries to wait it out and becomes a side show for the circus and he is overlooked by almost everyone except a few stragglers so he wastes away in his cage even the assistants at the circus forget to change his days (which he had beaten his own record if they would have been counting) after days pass the overseer see’s what appears to be an unused cage, but once he looks closer he sees the man buried in straw, near death. He listens to the hunger artist's last words which is him asking for forgiveness and how all he wanted was people admiration and when the overseer tells him that people do he responds with “They shouldn’t” confessing he only ever fasted because he could not find any food he enjoyed then he passes away. The …show more content…
The story the metamorphosis really shows this on how he feels abandoned just like i'm sure he felt when he was tortured as a kid by his father and his mother did nothing to stop it. Even when he wanted all of his writing destroyed just goes to show how much he really doubted himself even though his writings are supreme. You can also tell that all Franz wanted was the approval of his father Hermann Kafka you can tell this by one of his quotes about him "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature ...", by this quote alone you can see how much Kfka looked up to his father and how admiration he had for him even though all the awful things he had done to him. One night he as child had asked for a glass of water in the middle of the night, So his father did the only reasonable thing, pulled him from his bed, and then locked him out on the balcony for the remainder of the night (This actually happened to him). Another example of him using his father, is in is story “The judgement” where a father tells his son to commit suicide, which he listens and jumps off a bridge which if Kafka was told to do so he probably would have since he had a
12/19/16
Extended essay of Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis
Franz Kafka’s work was my favorite of all of the books we have read before. His dark style of writing and use of literary devices was amazing in my eyes, but what in his life caused this? Franz Kafka was born July 3rd, 1883 and died June 3rd, 1924, at the age of 40, from tuberculosis. During Kafka’s life, he was a very disturbed as a child, mainly because he was beaten, not only physically but also mentally. I feel like this definitely influenced his writing into the sick and twisted writing that is Kafkaesque. He lived in Prague, he was born into the middle class with a German speaking Jewish family. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his education, he started …show more content…
Some examples of this is the best one in my opinion is the metamorphosis where he turns into bug and is then disowned by his family which he had taken care of most of his adult life or The Hunger Artist where he fasts for a living and then eventually overlooked because people want to see more exciting forms of entertainment other than seeing a man fast so not knowing anything else he tries to wait it out and becomes a side show for the circus and he is overlooked by almost everyone except a few stragglers so he wastes away in his cage even the assistants at the circus forget to change his days (which he had beaten his own record if they would have been counting) after days pass the overseer see’s what appears to be an unused cage, but once he looks closer he sees the man buried in straw, near death. He listens to the hunger artist's last words which is him asking for forgiveness and how all he wanted was people admiration and when the overseer tells him that people do he responds with “They shouldn’t” confessing he only ever fasted because he could not find any food he enjoyed then he passes away. The …show more content…
The story the metamorphosis really shows this on how he feels abandoned just like i'm sure he felt when he was tortured as a kid by his father and his mother did nothing to stop it. Even when he wanted all of his writing destroyed just goes to show how much he really doubted himself even though his writings are supreme. You can also tell that all Franz wanted was the approval of his father Hermann Kafka you can tell this by one of his quotes about him "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature ...", by this quote alone you can see how much Kfka looked up to his father and how admiration he had for him even though all the awful things he had done to him. One night he as child had asked for a glass of water in the middle of the night, So his father did the only reasonable thing, pulled him from his bed, and then locked him out on the balcony for the remainder of the night (This actually happened to him). Another example of him using his father, is in is story “The judgement” where a father tells his son to commit suicide, which he listens and jumps off a bridge which if Kafka was told to do so he probably would have since he had a