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The Persistence of Patriarchy in Franz Kafka's “Judgment” by David Pan is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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Though commentators such as Gerhard Neumann have read Kafka's “Judgment” as a critique of patriarchal authority and the tyranny of familial relations, the story's powerful effect originates from the affirmation of patriarchal authority which motivates its plot. The story situates the protagonist in a conflict between the demands of a patriarchal family and a universalist culture outside the family based on friendship. The victory of the father and the resulting death of the son function as part of an attempt to recover traditional structures of authority which have been eroded by a modern notion of culture based on individual freedom and ‘elective’ affinities rather than binding ones. The death of the son is not an example of senseless repression but of a self‐sacrifice of modern and individualist desires in favor of the patriarchal authority of the father.

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Author

David Pan

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0105-7510)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)