PHYSICAL VERSUS SPIRITUAL SUICIDE
A CRITIQUE ON KAFKA'S SHORT STORY THE JUDGMENT
Keywords:
Society, Symbol, George, Judgement, Physical Suicide, Spiritual SuicideAbstract
This paper aimed to examine the dilemma of Georg’s physical versus spiritual suicide in the short story The Judgement. Problem of research was to analyze the spiritual versus physical suicide of Georg Bendemann in the selected short story and how the protagonist is the victim of spiritual suicide. This research was qualitative and the methodology was content analysis. The objective of research was to find out individual versus social conflict, symbolic meaning of the character in the given text. The question of the research also based on these objectives. The analysis of research maintained that Georg Bendemann is spiritually repressed character, the character of friend is his alter ego and represents Georg spiritual life. Father of Georg is the symbol of society who dominates the protagonist and repress his son’s desires. Georg revolts against the social doctorial demands and quits his life.
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