Kafka Grotesque Analysis

Franz Kafka was an early twentieth century German-Jewish author who’s famous for writing grotesque and enigmatic novels and short stories. Almost all of Kafka’s works seemed to have a deep meaning and are difficult to identify and understand. As a matter of fact, Kafka’s works were so unique that his name was inspired as an adjective—Kafkaesque. Kafka usually referred to particular themes in his stories which revolve around justice, judgment, and the alienation or isolation of the individual. In Franz Kafka’s novellas, he demonstrates his use of grotesque and disturbing elements down along with tension between his personality, religious, and family.
In July 13th, 1883, Franz Kafka was born in Prague. He was raised in a family of German Jews

He was a prominent member of the Jewish-German intelligentsia of Prague while the tension remained alive in him. However, his family only clung to Jewish traditions in a superficial way which really concerned him. Kafka was drawn to Jews and believed that he has to maintain their cultural identity. He writes as a form of prayer and expresses himself through writing. Every line that Kafka’s writes is charged with multiple meanings of illusions, allusions, daydreams, and reflections that indicate the “realness” of a realm that Kafka could not quite grasp of. He was aware of his discrepancy throughout his life. Franz Kafka was a major religious writer and thinker. His stories inevitably discuss the desperate attempts of people to do the right. The author himself and the protagonists in the stories are almost identical to an astonishing extend. The main characters are always trying to seek to do what is right but are at the same time confused, baffled, and thwarted. Moreover, Kafka and his characters are examples of a man who’s moral and responsibility value systems that have survived the traditional code of religious