after reading this story, I searched it for analysis and found your channel, I'm so grateful because you describe well, I can learn more things. on the other hand, improving english language, thank you 🙏
It's been a while since I visited your channel professor, it's great to see you in good health. Kafka is a brilliant writer and his judgment is the first short story I've read.
Reminds me of Max's tattooing in Fury Road. The machine can be a metaphor for blind obedience to behavioristic training. Justice is obedience. There is no cognitive element at all, only at death. NO cognitive element in life. Yes, it does minimally identify the difference between revenge, corrections, and rehabilitation. But it may be squewed ever so slightly towards punishment.
Mark - I think you have quite a point here. If you've seen the Harry Potter movies, Dolores Umbridge's punishment that is carried out using a quill which, upon use, will inscribe the broken rule onto the student's hand and cause tremendous pain is another example of obedience achieved by breaching one's body.
Some very fascinating insights indeed, a lot of which go beyond my analytical perspective of the short story: My master's thesis is about the application of Hartmut Rosa's theories of acceleration, alienation and resonance on this short story by Kafka. Especially, the theory on alienation will open up a whole world of possibilities for analysis for you guys :D
If the officer and commandant are correct the prisoners earn a glimpse of justice by suffering the machine. But in the end they are killed after attaining that knowledge. Perhaps its the pandemic talking but it sounds like an allegory for life. You suffer through the "pain" hour by hour, year by year, decade by decade, with lots of noise to drown out the message. Perhaps in the end you earn a glimpse of understanding and then you perish, or perhaps it just appears that way. If the machine truly is just a form of punishment, enlightenment and justice the machine seems barbaric at the least, and unjust particularly for this criminals offenses. If on the other hand the commandant and the officer are simply mad and no enlightenment is obtained then its just vengeance at best. I found it interesting that the pardoned prisoner seems to take delight in the officers fate, as if he is experiencing revenge or retribution more than justice, even though it seems the prisoner barely understood what was going on in the first place.
after reading this story, I searched it for analysis and found your channel, I'm so grateful because you describe well, I can learn more things. on the other hand, improving english language, thank you 🙏
You're very welcome!
It's been a while since I visited your channel professor, it's great to see you in good health.
Kafka is a brilliant writer and his judgment is the first short story I've read.
Welcome back!
One of my favorite stories by Kafka ... I read it a few years ago, and it really sticks with you. Thank you for the video!
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"It really sticks with you." - Yeah, it really goes under your skin, doesn't it? 😅
@@tarvoc746🤣🤣made my night
Reminds me of Max's tattooing in Fury Road. The machine can be a metaphor for blind obedience to behavioristic training. Justice is obedience. There is no cognitive element at all, only at death. NO cognitive element in life. Yes, it does minimally identify the difference between revenge, corrections, and rehabilitation. But it may be squewed ever so slightly towards punishment.
I've still got to see the new movie
Mark - I think you have quite a point here. If you've seen the Harry Potter movies, Dolores Umbridge's punishment that is carried out using a quill which, upon use, will inscribe the broken rule onto the student's hand and cause tremendous pain is another example of obedience achieved by breaching one's body.
Some very fascinating insights indeed, a lot of which go beyond my analytical perspective of the short story: My master's thesis is about the application of Hartmut Rosa's theories of acceleration, alienation and resonance on this short story by Kafka. Especially, the theory on alienation will open up a whole world of possibilities for analysis for you guys :D
No idea who "you guys" are. Glad you enjoyed the video
This video is soooo good thank you so much !!!! Defo will follow and check your other videos out !!!
Glad you enjoyed it
If the officer and commandant are correct the prisoners earn a glimpse of justice by suffering the machine. But in the end they are killed after attaining that knowledge. Perhaps its the pandemic talking but it sounds like an allegory for life. You suffer through the "pain" hour by hour, year by year, decade by decade, with lots of noise to drown out the message. Perhaps in the end you earn a glimpse of understanding and then you perish, or perhaps it just appears that way.
If the machine truly is just a form of punishment, enlightenment and justice the machine seems barbaric at the least, and unjust particularly for this criminals offenses. If on the other hand the commandant and the officer are simply mad and no enlightenment is obtained then its just vengeance at best. I found it interesting that the pardoned prisoner seems to take delight in the officers fate, as if he is experiencing revenge or retribution more than justice, even though it seems the prisoner barely understood what was going on in the first place.
It really sounds like wishful thinking, this whole line about the "enlightenment" through the pain
@@GregoryBSadler Agreed, but it seems the officer believed in the enlightenment, or it least that's what he would have you believe.
@@JoshV74656 Sure, he believed in it. People can tell themselves all sorts of stories that aren't true, which they believe in