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Mind The Release Of Spiritual Sustenance

Posted on:2006-03-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J M QuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360182997470Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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A writer's style,choice material scope or contents of writing are taken shape bythe reasons in many aspects, the psychological factor that forms under the influence ofthe origin , family and social living environment is especially important . This articleattempts to analyze a great deal of factors of family, nationality, society which exertan influence on Kafka's creation to find Kafka's inner rule, order namely hispsychological experience, personality characteristic, and understand Kafka and hisworks further. The materials are chosen mainly depending on the letters and thediaries that can reflect his inherent psychology, while the works are analyzed mainlyrelying on those novels reflecting his inner world and the modern human survivalstate.Franz Kafka has unique influence in the history of modern literature in the 20thcentury, his creations represents a very great difference: traditional western literaturepays attention to represent the external world, but Kafka's creation turns to emphasizerepresentation of oneself, especially self-subjective world. Different from the laterwestern modern writers, when choosing self-subjective world as representation targetin Kafka's creations, he is not following with a certain new literary idea or creatingidea consciously;it is his inside mental characteristic and the life style restricted bysuch characteristic that let him make such art decision. Kafka's main psychologicalcharacteristics are lonely ,inferiority and fear, which are not inherent, but form bythe influence of postnatal living environment. As a Jew, he lives in the hell of hisfather from childhood, he is lack of mother's love as a child and his nature is sensitive.All the factors make lonely, inferiority and fear accompany him from childhood toadult, gradually infiltrate into his deep soul and became the core of his soul. It isexactly lonely, inferiority and the fear that wake his writing motion and enthusiasm,and make him devote himself to write, at the same time it also restricts and stipulatesKafka's writing content, even determines the overall characteristic of Kafka'screations. Lonely, inferiority and fear keep Kafka away from external world, whichbecome more and more strange in Kafka's eyes, then he has to return to his own innerworld. So when Kafka begins his literary creation, he naturally chooses self instead ofexternal world as description target.From his writing motive and purpose, Kafka's writing career experiences two periods:taking writing as the hope and writing caused despair. lonely in family and society,lack of self-confidence and fear of external world make Kafka begin to write articlesin the hope of resisting the world and saving himself, but the nearly self-destroyedwriting life fails to make Kafka get rid of the existing loneliness, inferiority and fear,on the contrary adds new content: deny to value of his own works, the suspicion to hisown writing, the worry about whether insisting on writing…The sense of fear growsday by day and gradually evolves to despair in writing. But Kafka do not give upwriting because of despair, on the contrary, his novel creations have new contentand are more mature . His writing reason demonstrates his positive outlook on life:Live meaningfully in health. And there is one way of this kind of outlook on life----WritingHe has strong rebellion temperament from the view of soul, but inferiority andfear make him fail to express his resistance idea by direct language and actions. Forsurvival, he had to express his idea through words and some unimportant personshaving the similar fate with him in literary creations. When numerous writers paysclose attention to history and events, Kafka strongly absorbs in oneself, in his ownexperience and existing meaning of oneself. What Kafka describes and defends is themost personal and inside things, his creation turns human's attention to the mostfundamental existing problems. The essence that his works reflects is the spirit of thewhole world and mankind not just personal feeling. Kafka considers that the literatureshall not only observe one's own inner world, represent self-subjective spirit, but alsochallenge and resist to reality in a special way at the same time. So the value of hiscreation has even exceeded Shakespeare's. The themes involving in his creations, nomatter diary and letter related real recording or fiction summarizes: people in modernsociety fails to master their fate and felt loneliness and strangeness without way out orfree.His writing, actually like the protagonist in the novel " hole in the ground "makes bothbig and firm hole in the ground for oneself, is to keep away from the external enemiesand had a hiding-place. In the literature world he created, he chews the meaning of thelife alone, earnestly hopes to obtain complete freedom on spirit. To Kafka, writing isthe way that he survives in this strange world, writing is the weapon that he resistspatriarchy and reality;writing is his whoop from soul, spirit bailment and extension oflife.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kafka, reason of the writing, the released soul, the extended life
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