i sometimes feel reading Kafka is not healthy, as the situations he describes share a resemblence to reality but are without the possbility for resolution or hope. They seem like dark wisdoms about the terrible nature of reality - despiriting instead of inspiring.
i have read kafka for years, you're right. his soul was devastated for reasons that would be long to discuss here, but hope still shine in his vision. where? the light that comes from the door in this tale, for example.
Onomato, cool stuff. are you going to resume posting? I'm not sure if Before the Law is a story for 'children'; what age are you thinking? That said, I accidentally discovered the novel The Trial (from whence comes this parable) when I was 12. The simple prose that Kafka employed in order to write for the Everyman made me think this was a novel for children or teenagers. I think I was about halfway through chapter three when I started to think "oh shit...what IS this?!" I did not feel at all 'ready' for it, but by then it was already too late for my too curious mind.
It means that the man was subdued by red tape and bureaucracy and fear but if he had any courage he could’ve just rolled the dice, gone in, and not wasted his life away waiting for permission.
Here I am trying to understand this story for school😪
same man
@@TT-lk9vv it’s about the futility of waiting for justice to come to you.
i sometimes feel reading Kafka is not healthy, as the situations he describes share a resemblence to reality but are without the possbility for resolution or hope. They seem like dark wisdoms about the terrible nature of reality - despiriting instead of inspiring.
i have read kafka for years, you're right. his soul was devastated for reasons that would be long to discuss here, but hope still shine in his vision. where? the light that comes from the door in this tale, for example.
Onomato, cool stuff. are you going to resume posting?
I'm not sure if Before the Law is a story for 'children'; what age are you thinking? That said, I accidentally discovered the novel The Trial (from whence comes this parable) when I was 12. The simple prose that Kafka employed in order to write for the Everyman made me think this was a novel for children or teenagers. I think I was about halfway through chapter three when I started to think "oh shit...what IS this?!" I did not feel at all 'ready' for it, but by then it was already too late for my too curious mind.
I am mighty or I am IT?
Waoo great content 🥰
there is something wrong in that illustration, it shows the door half opened, but the tale said it was open as always.
What can be the Interpretation ????
In The Trial is an explanation
the country man should try enter in the law, against the doorkeeper. is the old myth of the hero that joseph campbell studied for years.
It means that the man was subdued by red tape and bureaucracy and fear but if he had any courage he could’ve just rolled the dice, gone in, and not wasted his life away waiting for permission.