A Hunger Artist

Due to the fact that Kafka sees the world as an absurd place that has no meaning inside. Furthermore, he is surprized to the fact that individuals still can find a meaning for themselves to live in modern world. Kafkas parables can be understood in many ways, it means that in a way the meaning of the parables of Kafka, depends on the experiences that the readers encountered throughout their life.

"A Hunger Artist" is an example of the Kafka parables that mainly concerns about the conflicts that human beings experience in themselves. Story of an artist who does not only confine onself to the succeed of hiis work but the what other people sees inside his work. This is a conflict of a human being that is against the pride of the artist. The dissatisfaction that the artist experiences drags him to death. His cold war with his pride makes him dissatisfied and even causes him not to see the accomplishments that artist done.

Another important aspect of this parable is the importance of the ranks of individual rather than human beings. For instance, whatever the hunger artist experiences such as dissatisfaction and sadness instead of calling the troubles of an human being. This situation implies that, social rank that has been invented by Adam Smith, indicates the importance of a human being in modern world that possible lead the hunger artist to die with the paradoxes inside his head.

Although this parable indicates the existance of paradoxes inside human beings via their nature, there is no suggestion or the solution of the problem. This dilemma lets readers understand the texts from very different and incompatible extends. The reader does not know wheter they should learn how to handle the dissatisfactions in life or admitting the social classes and importance of ranks and try to work hard to feel the satisfaction. We as readers, dont know whether we should admit the fact that life has multiple dissatisfactions that we will fact thrughout our lives or face and fight with the term of dissatisfaction.

Kafka's opinions are real but we are not sure that why he wrotes this parables. It can be in order to warn people not to be like hunger artist or just a underestimating the suffers of the individuals that they face to give a meaning to this unmeaningful modern world