Franz Kafka Isolation

Being Isolated From Life Throughout the centuries there has been numerous authors who have reflected their life experiences onto their intricate stories. Among some of these authors is Franz Kafka. Some examples of this are Kafka’s: Excursion Into the Mountains, Bachelor’s Ill Luck, Unhappiness, and The Judgment. Excursion Into the Mountains is about an unnamed character that starts off by saying how nobody will come to him. He is alone and keeps telling himself that nobody will come to help him. He further goes on about how a pack of nobodies could come with him in a trip into the mountains. The narrator fantasizes all of the nobodies linked together with him joyfully walking in the mountains with the wind blowing through them. They are all

This story shows a major theme of isolation. In the story Georg is talking to his wife about inviting his friend to their wedding. His wife asks why his friend is not being invited and Georg responds, “...'don't misunderstand me, he would probably come… he would feel that his hand had been forced and he would be hurt, perhaps he would envy me and certainly he'd be discontented and without being able to do anything about his discontent he'd have to go away again alone. Alone - do you know what that means?' (Kafka-3). This quote shows how is scared to invite his friend because now that he is engaged he is not the same as his friend. He feels like his friend will be hurt and feel isolated from Georg. That is just another example of the theme of isolation. The idea for this story was most likely because of Kafka’s life. In Franz Kafka Online it states, “His father, Hermann Kafka, was described as a huge ill-tempered domestic tyrant, who on many occasions directed his anger towards his son and was disrespectful towards his escape into literature” (Franz Kafka Biography). This quote shows how Kafka’s father was very rude to him when he was growing up. They had a very bad relationship with each other which was most likely a formal type. Kafka was isolated and the only way he could escape was through literature, and because of his relationship with his father he used that as a model to create The Judgment. Every

Gabriel Josipovici of The Times Literary Supplement said this about Kafka and his voice in his writing, “Only Kafka could experience language with such intensity and express his response in such a strange and striking way” (Josipovici). This quote shows how Kafka had a intense and often strange way of writing. This writing often made it hard for readers to understand what was going on in Kafka’s stories. It also made it difficult to identify themes and literary