Content Blog - Kafka

While in Prague I visited the famous Kafka museum.  This museum was one of the best ones I have visited because it truly engulfed me in the life and mind of Kafka.  Kafka's writing contributed to my understanding of the gothic and Empire.  Kafka was gothic because he always felt trapped and hopeless, even on his walk to school through the windy, narrow streets of Prague.  He was lost within a world of tedious familiarities.  He also was very dark and lacked confidence due to his relationship with his father.  Kafka's response to Empire is that it was a mindless prison.  A portion of the museum showed a picture of a man's back with words written in blood spelling "Honor thy Superiors".  This display really caught my eye because I believe it shows how Kafka felt about the empire.  The empire was a controlling force that unrightfully governed over him.  In Kafka's mind, no one had free will or imagination because you always had to do as you were told.  Kafka viewed the empire as selfish and manipulative and he believed that the people who lived under the empire were brain washed into their rulings.