Kafka Interpretation of " An Imperial Message"

 

In this parable, Kafka started to talk about the important message from emperor but he did not discourse about the content of this message. . He narrated that the messenger would not be able to deliver the message throughout the parable.


In this parable, multitudes refer the people who might give trouble while when we try to achieve our goals throughout our lives. We will always confront the people who can restrain us to reach our goal.The sentence of " ..where the symbol of the sun glitters; the way is made easier for him than it would be for any other man.But the multitudes are so vast; their numbers have no end." This sentence means that, although we are very strong such as coming from very rich and powerful family or having powerful sources, sometimes we may fail to overcome with  some problems. This parable emphasize that, we might think that we can handle with the problems that step by step, the problems and obstacles never end. There would be always different problems emerges until at the end of our lives. This idea is very similar to main steps of human life ; for instance when we were at high school we work for entering a collage but our new concern about life become entering a good job when we graduate from collage. When we start to work, we would face new difficulties such as taking a promotion or we start to deal with our untolerant managers unlikely the teachers who challanged us with difficult midterms and gave lower grades.

My interpretation about this part of  parable is the obstacles and problems never ends all through our life, they only turn into different form and challange us. We will notice that our life was ended while we cope with the problems.

Also, the sentence : " But instead how vainly does he wear out his strenght; still he is only making his way through the chambers of the innermost place; never will get to end of them and if he succeded in that nothing would be gained".  Kafka might try to say with this expression that, people waste their all time to solve different kind of problems instead of living and enjoying the moment without focusing on problems. While we skip the next problem we are not aware of the time flys and we spent all our live to handle with problems.