Prompts Kafka Victoria Jensen Fruedism really brought an insight unto Kafka.

The first time I read the story the Judgment I was perturbed at the seemingly pointlessness of the story. After learning about Freuds impact on Kafka, though, I took his work to be something to be greatly admired. To have a story have more than one possible meaning is an accomplishment in itself, but especially so to trick your reader. Its easy to know about Freudian concepts and still miss his somewhat intended purpose for analyzing. For that I admire him. Because of this one story you gain a greater understanding of relating things other literary works to literature. New psychological ideas as well as artistic, economic, or even scientific ones can have a huge impact on how you interpret a novel. Kafka taught me to look at other subjects and fields in literature for analyzing. Expressionalism was expressed in both stories, and honestly I already realized there were undercurrents of it in them. What I didnt realize was how it applied to an actual movement and time period. Some of the major aspects of this type of writing are to focus on emotions, expressions, and try not to connect in depth with your characters to stay detached. This really this really applies to A Country Doctor and The Hunger Artist especially because it felt like these were the main points the author was trying to make. Putting these themes in distorted settings only enhance the feelings you get from the characters, such as the Sick boy talking to the Doctor. You knew before the Doctor was a little unhappy with is work but after his experience you have verification. The exaggeration of situations underlines his failures, isolation, and the harsh world he lives in. In The Hunger Artist its the same way, the entire story is focused on his estrangement in society. His isolation is literally staged for everyone to see and visit. When he is in that state theres a lot of time to think about his anxieties and fears that would normally be shoved aside to make room for daily life. If I was to say which ism The Hunger Artist

represents the most, I would say expressionism, because almost every aspect points toward the themes Kafka introduced. Surrealism is the same way. I naturally prefer realistic stories because I get annoyed when things dont work out in a logical way. But with surrealism the reader can take an absurd happening and view it in such a different light to make it somewhat reasonable if not genius for the insight and thought put into it. Surrealism helped me understand A Country Doctor more than I had even after discussion because it points to a plausible cause of why the author might have written it so outrageously. It makes you search deeper for the hidden meanings of things instead of just classifying every event you read as weird and then immediately move on. Eventually, you become so baffled that trying to make sense of how one part connects to another is on the backburner to what is happening right there and then. These isms bring enjoyableness to the works that I just previously would have dismissed as stupid.