In my own personal opinion, I found your power point presentation to be among the most well-connected to the themes expressed in your novel. In particular, I found the continual use of the eyes found on the covers of your books in your presentation to represent the ideas that Kafka talked about intriguing. Much of the presentation focused specifically on the existential angst, isolation, and alienation that Kafka felt throughout his life. As you explained upon further questioning after your presentation, the eyes found on your books and in your power point serve as the perfect representation of these themes. I myself connected what you said to other connections I have seen in the world around me. Eyes in general often serve as symbols of watchfulness from an over-powerful being. This is particularly true when you examine the back of any dollar bill. There you will find the “all-seeing eye” of God that is a heavy topic for discussion on conspiracy theory shows about the Freemasons on the History Channel. While of course your books didn’t deal with Freemasonry, they did deal with the idea of someone looking over you. For Kafka and the characters in his books, the ideas of alienation and existential angst are very well represented by this idea of someone looking over you. On a personal level, knowing that someone else was constantly monitoring my actions through a live-feed camera would be particularly frightening, and would probably incite many of the viewpoints in me that Kafka developed as he moved through life.
In my own personal opinion, I found your power point presentation to be among the most well-connected to the themes expressed in your novel. In particular, I found the continual use of the eyes found on the covers of your books in your presentation to represent the ideas that Kafka talked about intriguing. Much of the presentation focused specifically on the existential angst, isolation, and alienation that Kafka felt throughout his life. As you explained upon further questioning after your presentation, the eyes found on your books and in your power point serve as the perfect representation of these themes. I myself connected what you said to other connections I have seen in the world around me.
ReplyDeleteEyes in general often serve as symbols of watchfulness from an over-powerful being. This is particularly true when you examine the back of any dollar bill. There you will find the “all-seeing eye” of God that is a heavy topic for discussion on conspiracy theory shows about the Freemasons on the History Channel. While of course your books didn’t deal with Freemasonry, they did deal with the idea of someone looking over you. For Kafka and the characters in his books, the ideas of alienation and existential angst are very well represented by this idea of someone looking over you. On a personal level, knowing that someone else was constantly monitoring my actions through a live-feed camera would be particularly frightening, and would probably incite many of the viewpoints in me that Kafka developed as he moved through life.