Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)

On the Survival Dilemma of Modern Individuals in Kafka’s The Judgement

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Xiufan Dai1
1Hunan Normal University
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Available Online 28 January 2022.
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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Kafka; The Judgement (Das Urteil); Modernity Dilemma; Existentialism
Abstract

Through such means as metaphor and symbolization, Kafka gave his novel The Judgment (Das Urteil) multiple meanings, giving it the nature of a modern allegorical novel. This work contains the characteristics of multiple referents and complex meanings, thus providing readers with the possibility to interpret it in multiple dimensions and from multiple perspectives. In addition, in this novel, such propositions as the expression of religious meanings, the perspective of the image of how father and son get along, and the prominence of modernity under tragic circumstances have constructed the spiritual world behind this work. Readers can dig out the deep meanings in this work based on their own life experience and aesthetic experience, thus conducting further research on Kafka and existential literature.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
28 January 2022
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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220110.123How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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