A.P English Literature Research Paper:

The father-son relationship in The Metamorphosis, The Judgment, and A Hunger Artist is a complex and emotional fascination that is based on Franz Kafka’s life and is present as the main conflict in many of his other short stories. Kafka’s negative and struggling attitude towards the father figure in his works is based on his personal life as described from the translated works Das Schloss, a biography about Kafka’s life in his native tongue of German. “Hermann Kafka was a domestic tyrant, who directed his anger against his son. Kafka also had three sisters, all of whom perished in Nazi camps. (1)”
This short passage in the opening paragraph of his German biography gives any reader of his work insight to the hardship he faced as a child, and understandably how he would focus this abuse into his writing. The Judgment is regarded as Kafka’s breakthrough work, where it establishes his trend of “conflict between father and son......

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Title: Franz Kafka's Themes
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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