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Title: Kafka, In the Penal Colony


1
Kafka, In the Penal Colony
  • By
  • Thijs van Blitterswijk
  • Annet van Dijk
  • Ioulia Grigorieva
  • Kevania Menig
  • Inge van de Ven

2
Forschungsreisender (traveller)
  • Not a citizen (He was neither a citizen of the
    penal colony nor a citizen of the state to which
    it belonged)
  • from Europe ? Enlightenment
  • flat character
  • rational, not empathic

3
Does he pass judgement on the course of justice
on the island?
  • YES
  • Although he is reluctant, he tells the officer
    that he will not support him.
  • He does not stop the officer.
  • NO
  • He does not go public with it.
  • He leaves the island without doing anything.

4
The last scene
  • No responsibility
  • Limbo
  • Acceptance of the existence of procedures that he
    does not agree with
  • Border between two worlds kept
  • Like a bad dream

5
Intertextuality connection to Dante (1)
  • Dante traveller
  • Virgil officer
  • Hell penal colony
  • aspect of torture
  • guilt punishment responsibility
  • the Condemned man unbaptized babies

6
Intertextuality connection to Dante (2)
  • contrapasso the punishment corresponds to the
    sin
  • the law the condemned violated is inscribed on
    his body for educational purposes there is a
    leather folder containing sheets with
    inscriptions
  • BUT
  • IRONY 1 only the old commandant and the officer
    can read what the sheets say
  • (The condemned people can only make out the
    words shortly before they die)
  • IRONY 2 the officer does not recognize anything

7
Bibliography
  • Kafka, F. (1919) In the penal colony.
    http//www.mala.bc.ca/johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalco
    lony.htm
  • Müller-Seidel, W. (1986) Die Deportation des
    Menschen. Stuttgart Metzler
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