Paradoxical Binary and Kafka
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Franz Kafka is seeking a mythical dimension of truth in his philosophical stories. The prospect of finding the truth amid the contradictions is the central ambiguity of the existential approach within this context. In The Trial, Kafka uses contradictional paradoxes to express themes such as violating privacy, constant control, domination, alienation, loneliness, and the burden of guilt. The questions of the matter discussed in The Trial are thematic paradoxes, such as confusion or equivocation between different levels of abstraction in tragic space and timing. Kafka’s protagonists are lonely and isolated figures consigned to oblivion and trapped amid the notion of good and evil—the central dilemma timelessly. Displayed through binary opposition of paradoxes, Kafka’s protagonist is questioning his identity, double-bonded in the corrupted world he belongs to and the current alienated one. Besides, The Castle represents the individual’s struggle against the system of bureaucracy; Metamorphosis demonstrates Gregor Zamza’s animal form in opposition to his human mentality, and “The Hunter Gracchus” shows alienation between self/I and man/body. Kafka utilizes the binary to present the meaning defined by everything surrounding it—striking Derrida’s Deconstruction theory. Kafka creates paradoxical contradictions, and the symbols in Kafka’s works—whether they are animals or authorities such as the father, The Trial, or the castle—represent the inconsistent two-way tensions of the protagonist’s inner life, which can neither be this nor that. This conflict is not beyond the protagonist’s limits, who does not struggle to find a reason for any tendency to the subconscious of humanity.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Binary Oppositions, The Trial, The Castle, Metamorphosis, Paradoxes
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