The Existential Plight Of Jews In Franz Kafka's Novels

Franz Kafka is one of the most important writers in the world.Scholars interpret his novels from different angles.Kafka is a Jew.The Jewish writing in his works are deeply concerned by the academic community.The Jewish people always dogged by misfortunes in history.The Jewish identity accompanied Kafka throughout his life and was integrated into his works.Kafka's three novels,The Missing Person,The Trial,The Castle,all contain the Jewish living experience.The thesis first introduces background of these three novels,including Kafka's relationship with the Jewish nation,the survival dilemma faced by the Jewish nation,and the turn of the century in Prague.And then I analyzes how the three novels reflect the survival difficulties of the Jewish nation.In the novel The Missing Person,the experiences of Carl that exile to the United States is similar to the experience of the Jewish nation who lost their homes and wandered the world.In The Trial,it can be seen that the jewish nation suffered from "blood libel" and faced religious crisis.The description of similar-looking people and similar environment in The Castle shows the plight of the Jewish nation in the environment of assimilation.Kafka pointed out the plight of the Jewish nation in three novels,but did not point out the way out.The conclusion section summarizes the hopes for the breakthrough dilemma in three novels and reiterates Kafka's view of Zionism.