Looking Inside Franz Kafka
Looking inside Kafka in "A Hunger Artist"
Looking inside Kafka in "A Hunger Artist"
by Franz Kafka
A Psychoanalytic Reading
By Raymund Salazar
AB English
Thesis Statement: "The psyche of the people towards the hunger artist as a metaphor to the inconsistency, frailty and superficiality of human belief; through the eyes of Kafka as the hunger artist himself"
The story's use of profound metaphors, symbolisms and allegorical abstractions, are too intricately bound and woven so that a singular interpretation of "A hunger Artist" is a total impossibility. Therefore, this paper will try to tackle only two of the possible interpretations: the story as an autobiographical representation of Kafka himself, and his commentary on the flaws and frailty of human belief.
The story is about a hunger artist who professionally fasts for the entertainment of the people but later found himself struggling to keep his reputation and acclaim up, for the people began to slowly lose......
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