Mass and societal alienation in Kafka’s The Castle: A construal based on Tönnies, Seeman and Freud.

Abstract

Kafka is a nonpareil figure in literary modernism, prose and a lodestone; in this regard, at one pole stands the mystical experience – anterior to all, the experience founded on the didactics of Kabbalah – and the modern experience of civic life and the afflictions it has lumbered human psyche with, at the other painted in words through a sociological expressionism. This paper aims to take the latter into account in a sociological perspective. Taking account of the consequences of the protracted manipulative power exerted by the castle on the villagers; this paper equally intends to unfolds the repercussions of individuals being alienated and their metamorphosis into state-objects touching upon the theories registered by modern sociologists and psychologists of mark.