Franz Kafka’s The Judgement describes the struggle of a father-son relationships. This story explores Georg and ever-present conflict that Georg has been dealing with his father. The narrator states, “Perhaps during his mother’s lifetime his father’s insistence on having everything his own way in the business had hindered him from developing any real activity of his own”. This can very well be the reason why Georg’s father considers Georg a lonely, sad, and submissive person. Hence, it can be implied that the father is to be responsible for Georg’s action at the end. At the end of this story Georg uses the cover of the train to kill himself “At this moment, an almost endless traffic rolled across the bridge” could it be even through death Georg didn’t want to make a splash-so to speak? Many people have found this ending as somehow unrealistic and this may be in fact because of the many uses of “dreams” in this story but I tend to find this ending unrealistic because of its promptness, Georg, is about to get married, and his business is beginning to make progress yet a scolding by his father that can very well be because of jealousy for outshining him; is the push he needs to commit suicide.
Jorge G
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p.cheung // Mar 31st 2017 at 11:47 am
Jorge you make a great point about how the ending is unrealistic. “I tend to find this ending unrealistic because of its promptness”. I agree with this statement very much because its very similar to what I wrote in my post. His life was going pretty well with his marriage and business, and right when his father said what he said there was no contemplation about the other aspects of his life. This is why I also believe that the ending was unrealistic.
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