Kafka and his Portrayal of Characters

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Throughout his life, Kafka wrote during times he felt frustrated, either by a love, his family, or his sickness (Sokel 133). Kafka's method of relief from these frustrations was through his writing (133). Kafka's coarse relationship with his father dominates his thoughts in life and his works...
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In the two works, "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgement," the image of a father is almost God-like. Until these works, Kafka had sought to escape from his father in his writing, only to find him dominating in all his work (157). Samsa Sr. who had part in his son's sudden change into an enormous bug, and Bendemann Sr...
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