AN INTRODUCTION
Language as a medium is a significant common factor between the Law and literature. The current paper seeks to explore the connection there is between literature and the Law, with major reference to the philosopher Franz Kafka.
Now though Kafka was well versed with the law and was law graduate, his desire to write would drive his passion. Numerous pieces have been written about the works of Kafka, but this submission seeks to explore the relationship and rather the influence of law in Kafka’s literature. We thus draw a connection between his professional life and his passion of writing. Since he hardly enjoyed his work, he found refuge in writing, which in turn was a product of his experiences during his employment. This paper …show more content…
These experiences led to Kafka gaining knowledge and acquaintance with so many aspects of the Law and the impact of this fact can be perceived from a reading of his literatures.
KAFKA’S LEGAL SYSTEM
At the time of Kafka’s life the popular modern day city Prague was an integral part of the licentious Austrian Hungarian Realm, which had existed since 1867. The Austro-Hungarian empire followed the civil system, which centres profoundly around the Germanic classification in a sequence of the Austrian codes. Austria-Hungary was designed as a dual monarchy amongst the Habsburg realm of Austria and Hungary. The bureaucracy in the kingdom of Austria and Hungary was a very strongly established one. Apart from that there was existence of a vast middle class that relied heavily on the packed state mechanism for being employed; it has been defined as “infinitely complicated, slow, and inexorable in its functioning.” The rising and the assassination of the successor to the kingdom, Francis Deste, was within Kafka’s lifetime. The assassination of the Ruler led to the downfall of the Kingdom post the World War and the consequent formation of …show more content…
Informers were, more often than not, employed to inform the police about the acts of the populaces that ultimately led to outwardly discriminating detentions. Such practices of hiring informers were also employed by a number of other nations in that era such as the UK, France and Germany but at a lesser scale. Kafka hinted on the Austrian past of surveillance and secrective handling of K. in The Trial. The evidence to this fact has been providedin the very first sentence of the novel which goes as ‘someone must have been slandering Joseph K., for one morning, without warning, he was arrested.’ The possibility of detentions to be carried out as a consequence of accusations of an individual minus the supportive evidence is certainly not a possibility in the contemporary legal systems of today, however it was clearly possible in the realm that was in the era that Kafka’s parents lived in.
THE CONCLUSION
When it comes to Kafka, the rendition has imitated structures of his writing that are also to be seen in his professional reports. There is an existence of a very robust, straightforward, neatly created development of information which is rationally structured and accurately offered.
The places visited by Kafka for inspection can be seen to be regions in his literature. The functioning
Language as a medium is a significant common factor between the Law and literature. The current paper seeks to explore the connection there is between literature and the Law, with major reference to the philosopher Franz Kafka.
Now though Kafka was well versed with the law and was law graduate, his desire to write would drive his passion. Numerous pieces have been written about the works of Kafka, but this submission seeks to explore the relationship and rather the influence of law in Kafka’s literature. We thus draw a connection between his professional life and his passion of writing. Since he hardly enjoyed his work, he found refuge in writing, which in turn was a product of his experiences during his employment. This paper …show more content…
These experiences led to Kafka gaining knowledge and acquaintance with so many aspects of the Law and the impact of this fact can be perceived from a reading of his literatures.
KAFKA’S LEGAL SYSTEM
At the time of Kafka’s life the popular modern day city Prague was an integral part of the licentious Austrian Hungarian Realm, which had existed since 1867. The Austro-Hungarian empire followed the civil system, which centres profoundly around the Germanic classification in a sequence of the Austrian codes. Austria-Hungary was designed as a dual monarchy amongst the Habsburg realm of Austria and Hungary. The bureaucracy in the kingdom of Austria and Hungary was a very strongly established one. Apart from that there was existence of a vast middle class that relied heavily on the packed state mechanism for being employed; it has been defined as “infinitely complicated, slow, and inexorable in its functioning.” The rising and the assassination of the successor to the kingdom, Francis Deste, was within Kafka’s lifetime. The assassination of the Ruler led to the downfall of the Kingdom post the World War and the consequent formation of …show more content…
Informers were, more often than not, employed to inform the police about the acts of the populaces that ultimately led to outwardly discriminating detentions. Such practices of hiring informers were also employed by a number of other nations in that era such as the UK, France and Germany but at a lesser scale. Kafka hinted on the Austrian past of surveillance and secrective handling of K. in The Trial. The evidence to this fact has been providedin the very first sentence of the novel which goes as ‘someone must have been slandering Joseph K., for one morning, without warning, he was arrested.’ The possibility of detentions to be carried out as a consequence of accusations of an individual minus the supportive evidence is certainly not a possibility in the contemporary legal systems of today, however it was clearly possible in the realm that was in the era that Kafka’s parents lived in.
THE CONCLUSION
When it comes to Kafka, the rendition has imitated structures of his writing that are also to be seen in his professional reports. There is an existence of a very robust, straightforward, neatly created development of information which is rationally structured and accurately offered.
The places visited by Kafka for inspection can be seen to be regions in his literature. The functioning