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Kafka’s story opens on a note of great perplexity and isolation. The snow, a symbol of the absurdity of the world, separates him from his patient, who as we discover is in fact himself. Explain how the doctor’s journey can be interpreted as a quest for self-discovery, typical of a hero of a fairy-tale. Why does the doctor ignore Rose, who represents the possibility of love and submits to the brutality and aggression of the groom? In your opinion, why does the doctor come to share the bed with his patient and ultimately becomes a patient himself? How does the sore on the side of the mortally wounded boy correspond to the bite on Roses’ cheek? Does the doctor represent the unaware humanity that can cure itself through awareness, choice and action? Against whom is the accusation of betrayal directed at the end of the story?
In Kafka’s The Country Doctor the most obvious common thread is that of perplexity, ineffectualness and the inability to anticipate and control the bewildering flow of experience. Explain how the various events of the story repeatedly frustrate the common human impulse towards control of experience. How is each irruption of the incongruous a new challenge to the narrator’s ingenuity to put a rational façade on the irrational and to accommodate the intolerable and keep the monstrous under control? Is the doctor’s determination to think positively an attempt to overcome the horror of stark irrationality and to think purposefully even when purposeful action is impossible? Does Kafka’s story expose the inadequacy of reason as a means of understanding reality or does it represent reason as our last tie with sanity?
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