Kafka Short Story In The Animal Image

Franz Kafka who has been respected as the ancestor of the West Modernliterature is an exotic flower in the world literature history. His works are the mazesthat we can't go out forever. There are many animal images in his short stories. Theyare the novel leading characters, the important novel clues, the less important rolewho can be seen everywhere in the stories, or the animal analogy. In Kafka letters anddiaries, he compares himself with "the beast in enveloping" or "the lamb in the wrongpath". Kafka's works, life and the heart are all been stroked by the animal brand.Therefore, understanding the animal images can be good at understanding Kafka'sworks. First, the animal subject gets in touch with animal awakening. What doKafka's animal mazes want to tell us after all?This paper analyses animal image in three aspects. First, the development and thecurrent situation of the animal images. The development of the animal images isdivided into four stages: the period of pullulation, the tentative period, the period ofdevelopment, and the prosperous period. The development of the animal canestablishes Franz Kafka's animal image position in the longitudinal phylogeny.Secondly, Franz Kafka's animal images and classification. According to therelationship of person and animal, the images can be divided into three kinds:prototypic animals, transformable animals and opposite animals. The animal imageshave common points: the color is dull, the relationship of people and animals is closed,and the animals are living in scared and lonely situation. Thirdly, the reason of usinganimal images. The reasons of Kafka's animal hobby are as follows: setting up theobstacle to the readers, running after the strange-rization effect and searching his ownspace. Franz Kafka feels lonely and scared in the human being world; he goes to ananimal's world by himself. The animal image is one kind of the way to keep him safeand escape from the life. Kafka has isolated himself into the animal world and theanimal body, trying to explore his lonely soul and the destiny of humanity trueness.