Category: A Hunger Artist

Trapped, stuck in the same routine. Anything ranging from anxiety to severe depression can make people feel imprisoned every day. The characters Miss Brill, Chanyi, and The Hunger Artist all have something in common, which is the feeling of being trapped. Katherine Mansfields Miss Brill portrays the main character, Miss Brill, as someone who enjoys…

Two short stories Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville and The Hunger Artist by Frank Kafka were both written by two different authors at two different time periods. Even though both stories are separated by over sixty years from one another, character wise both stories share the same main idea…

Human beings go through the life process in search for happiness. it is the constant search for happiness that makes us value all the good memories life throws at us. However, this illusion of happiness does not always seem to be attained throughout the human life. There are periods people go through endless suffering and…

Franz Kafka is known to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Kafkas grim writing style is known and recognized by many. Many of his works leave the reader questioning life and often taking away a pessimistic message. The dark nature of his short stories such as The Judgement, A Hunger…

The hunger artists remote relationship with the towns citizens suggests that the artist separates himself from society and is most likely heavily misunderstood. Within the story one may quickly think that the story is simply about the art of fasting. However, there is a much deeper meaning in the art itself. In the beginning of…

Everyone feels the obligation to shift sometime in their life. The issue would be if the difference would be for the best. Kafka elaborates on how the public pressures society and forces individuals to view themselves negatively which may be portrayed as an illusion. In the literary novella work, The Metamorphosis, Kafka elaborates on how…

Because of how Gregor was viewed resulting in his transformation, he was unable to be labeled as a member of society. He was treated as a less than and was no longer loved by his family. The Hunger Artist is about an artist who physically isolates himself via his cage, but he is also isolated…

The story A Hunger Artist talks about a man who was a professional hunger artist and was really dedicated to his profession. He believed that fasting is not such a difficult task and decided to embark on a forty days fasting journey to prove that to the world. The character according to the description of…

Stop trying so hard to fill my void for I have started loving the way it makes me ache. What does this mean to you? In my opinion, this was the thought process the Hunger Artist had. When you have a void that you want to fill you start filling it with superficial things, in…

We as human beings owe a large part of the reasoning to our actions to be because of the fact that we are human. The codes ingrained into our species direct our way of living, and more importantly, the reactions we have to different circumstances. Franz Kafkas The Hunger Artist demonstrates the complexity of human…