Kafka And Ayn Rand: A Literary Analysis

Authors and artists alike have their own cultural identity, usually deeper, meaningful, and especially personal. These artists show hints of it in their works of art and viewers would never realize it, so how do they do it? A few prolific artists are Ayn Rand, Frida Kahlo, and Franz Kafka. Rand; a philosopher and fictional writer who wrote about her philosophies over objectivism and individualism. Kahlo expressed her cultural identity through provoking and meaningful paintings and self portraits of herself. Kafka was also a writer who grew up with father issues and has been put in long durations of isolation which led him to better understand himself and his life which he began to incorporate his thoughts and feelings into his stories which strongly reflected his own life. There is something all these authors share in common, it’s that they all have a cultural identity but within that similarity is a difference, and that difference is in how these artists reflect their cultural identity into their …show more content…
Kafka had a rough childhood with his verbally abusive father whom had great misunderstandings of Kafka and his life. Kafka’s hardships with his father, girlfriends, and his Tuberculosis has helped him create uniquely webbed stories that linked to his life. Kafka was also very isolated during childhood, which helped him create his stories and better understand himself which is mentioned in a letter to his father recalling how he was “hidden from you, in my room, among my books...with extravagant ideas…”(Kafka 1). He also implies this in his short story, “Metamorphosis” where the main character hides within his room because of what he is becoming could induce fear into his parents, which could reflect to Kafka and how he was a changing man that grew up with a difference that could bring fear to his father if needed. It would be a way for him to stand up to jis father and get a type of revenge on