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4. In what ways do stories like ‘The Judgement’ and ‘Metamorphosis’ suggest Kafka’s fraught relationship to social and particularly paternal authority? How might this relationship be thought of as typically ‘modern’?

As a child and as a young man, Franz Kafka had a particularly difficult relationship with his father. For Kafka, this adversely affected the way he related to paternal authority throughout the rest of his life, and this fraught relationship with figures of paternal authority is evident in much of his writing. In particular, stories like ‘The Judgement’ and ‘Metamorphosis’ illustrate this difficult relationship, both in the themes that run throughout the stories and in the open depiction of the father working against the son. This troubled relationship with his father and his resulting struggle with paternal authority figures is also evident in the biographical ‘Letter to His Father’, written by Kafka in 1919. In this letter Kafka struggles......

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