The story The judgment by Franz Kafka basically deals with the relationship between Georg and his father based on the author’s life story. The main character Georg has a fiancee named Frieda Brandenfled from the author’s real fiancee’s name.

In the story, Georg and Frieda talk about sending a wedding letter to Georg’s friend, who is in Russia. For Frieda, as she wants to meet all his friends, she insists on sending the wedding letter to the friend in Russia, whereas Georg is disinclined to send the wedding letter to his friend in Russia for the friend’s given life-style that he goes to Russia ALONE and for Goerg has succeeded his business, but his friend has almost failed with his business in Russia. Georg, however, respects his fiancee’s opinion and he decides to send the wedding letter to his friend. Before he sends the letter, he meets and tells his father for sending the wedding letter to his friend in Russia. From discussing with his father, an issue comes out. Before his mother’ death, Georg and everything were controlled by his father. After his mother’s death, however, his father who is strict, strong, and patriarchal has lost power than before and his father feels this. From this moment, Georg probably surpasses and controls his father and the business. His father also feels that from their conversation. So, he questions the existence of Georg’s friend in Russia because the friend in Russia is actually his friend, not Georg’s friend and he accuses Georg of deceiving him of the happenings of the business. Georg’s father claims that Georg wants him dead and he is being selfish as well. So, his father condemns him to death by drowning and he realizes everything is an illusion by conversation with his father and then he just follows his father’s order for his family’s happiness.

As I mentioned before, this story is based on the author’s life. So, here, Georg’s father represents the author’s father who was strict, strong, patriarchal and big like Georg’s father. The author’s father also operated business too. In general, Russia is regarded as extremely cold country among the public. For the author, his youth and life were like Russia and Russian because he was in cold and lonely condition under his parents. Also, At that time, because of social, political, and economical conditions in Europe, the author’s parents supported him to write literature which meant he was under his parents. So, here, Georg represents the author himself, his friend in Russia represents literature and Russia (?), Georg’s father represents the author’s father, I think.