An Analysis of the Tragic Consciousness under the Power System of Kafka's "The Castle"

Mengke Han

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/2024.17981

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An Analysis of the Tragic Consciousness under the Power System of Kafka's "The Castle"

Mengke Han *^,1,

¹ Zhejiang Normal University

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2024.17981

Abstract

Kafka's work presents a strong absurd, nihilistic, and symbolic writing style. As his late novel, "The Castle" recounts the desperate struggle of the little people under the power system, revealing the tragic nature of absurd nothingness. The blind worship of the power system and the discipline of the individual in a totalitarian society doom everything to the dust. Everything is a puppet of abstraction and symbolism. Kafka borrowed "The Castle" to express the absurdity of human paradox. The so-called absurdity, Yunescu believes: "Absurdity refers to the lack of meaning...... Man is cut off from his own religion, from his own metaphysical foundations, from a priori, and all his actions seem meaningless, absurd, and useless. ”.

Keywords

Absurdity, nothingness, power, puppetry, despair

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Han,M. (2024). An Analysis of the Tragic Consciousness under the Power System of Kafka's "The Castle". Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,77,51-56.

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