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A 7 page analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” and Herman Hesse’s “Steppenwolf” as they relate to ideas expressed by critic/philosophers. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Each one of these characters lives a life that is filled with meaning, for the reader, but perhaps no meaning for the particular character. They are novels, and characters, that
seem to be overflowing with symbolic possibilities. They address isolation, freedom, confusion, the nature of man, spiritual emptiness, and societys control to name but a few of the possible elements
one could find in these stories. The following paper examines and analyzes the two stories separately, while incorporating the critical notes of three writers. These notes come from Wayne Booths
comments on fiction, Jean-Paul Sartres "What is Literature," and Walter Benjamins "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." The Trial Kafkas "The Trial" is a very
unique as well as perhaps disturbing story of a man who is simply taken away and put on trial. He is never told why he was arrested, or what he
is on trial for. From this simple illustration we can clearly see that it is a novel that speaks, symbolically, of many things, not the least of which is perhaps
a very controlling political system that has the power to so just such a thing. In looking at Kafkas story we can
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his world and environment from many philosophical approaches.
Interestingly enough, one author, in quoting Wayne Booth, offers us the following: "the authors judgment is always present to anyone who knows how to look for it. ...We must never
forget that the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear" (Bishop). In all honesty, one can never really read a Kafka story and
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