A writer once said of Kafka, while others are writing about the distant past, Kafka is writing about himself.
This is probably the mystery of Kafka's ability to transcend his time and make every reader linger.
In **, he describes a group of people who are eager to enter the castle, but after a lot of hardship, they can't find the gate to enter the castle.
When I first read this book, I always felt obscure. But after having life experience, I had an epiphany.
It turns out that the so-called castle is the heart of the people.
Those people and things that can't be seen through, can't think about it, and can't let go of it are like castles built one after another, trapping you and me firmly.
The story begins with the protagonist K receiving a letter.
The letter comes from a man named Barnabas who wants to commission the protagonist K to survey a piece of land.
Although the protagonist had a stable life at that time, he had no worries about food and clothing. But in order to be able to soar, he finally chose to accept the invitation.
After a long journey away from home, the protagonist arrives at the castle, but he can't find the entrance. He had to ask from house to house, but in the end, the answer he got was that he didn't know.
When he was depressed, he looked at the unremarkable castle as if he saw power, wealth, status, all the good things. He soon became so immersed in his insatiable desires that he vowed to enter the castle.
That evening, he heard that the castle's ** Crumb was resting at the inn, so he hurried over. But the other party avoided it and asked her lover Frida to come out and send it away.
In order to be able to enter the room to meet **, the protagonist does not hesitate to curry favor with Frida. And the woman was also impressed by his rhetoric and decided to go with him to the castle.
Unexpectedly, they came to the castle and tossed for days, but they still couldn't find the entrance. In desperation, the protagonist regards Frida, who is by his side, as his only support.
In order to find a place to stay, the hero began to whisper again to become a teacher. And the teachers couldn't get used to this stranger, and always took the opportunity to humiliate him.
The helpless protagonist, worried that he would lose his job, had to choose to swallow his anger and keep out his bottom line and principles.
In the end, Friedain could not stand this sloppy life, decisively dumped him and left with another promising man.
When the protagonist looks at their distant backs, he realizes that he has paid a piece of sincerity, but in the end he has been disappointed.
In life, there are always some people who have been together for a long time and experienced a lot, only to find that the other party is just a passerby.
At this time, the protagonist K met a family in the village.,That family has two daughters.,Both of them were born as beautiful as flowers.。
A few years ago, the ** of the castle had a lustful heart for the youngest daughter, and was offended by being rejected**, so that the father was implicated and lost his job.
Since then, the villagers have been reluctant to speak to their families. Some vicious villains also took the opportunity to bully them, making them destitute.
So, the eldest daughter Ao Jia was very unwilling and determined to find a ** to settle accounts. In order to infiltrate the castle, she did not hesitate to sell her body to curry favor with the servants who served the castle.
However, the servants had no intention of helping her, and only treated her as a plaything.
Gradually, she became the worst woman in the village, a woman to be looked down upon.
But she still couldn't let go, and when she met people, she talked about her miserable experience, staring at the castle in a daze all day long.
Aojia in the book, because he can't let go of his obsession and can't reconcile with the past, exhausts himself in the back and forth.
Aristotle once said that no one can torture a man but himself.
Life will inevitably encounter setbacks and suffering, but what really hurts you is your inner obsession.
After struggling for a long time, Oga finally came up with a way to enter the castle. He has an older brother, Barnabas, who delivers the letter to the protagonist.
This brother has a sensitive heart, often suffers from gains and losses over other people's opinions, and gives up on himself after falling behind in the family.
Later, at Ogga's suggestion, he disguised himself as a messenger and squatted around the castle every day, looking for an opportunity to sneak in.
After two years of perseverance,Finally waited for the letter that hired the hero K.,Officially became a messenger.。
With a public office, others will look up to him, and he will change his cowardice and inferiority in the past and become arrogant.
At this time, the only constant is the little sister Amalia.
Someone humiliated her back, and she didn't take it to heart at all. Some people ridiculed and ridiculed, she did not regret her original choice.
Always stay out of the way, try your best to take care of your sick parents, and silently support the family.
I like a saying very much, people live once, and their reputation is ruined by others, and right and wrong are in themselves.
In this world, the more you try to prove yourself, the more likely you are to suffer. No matter what you do, there will always be accusations and rebuttals.
So, life is your own and has nothing to do with others.
At the end of **, neither Aojia's family nor the protagonist K failed to enter the castle in the end. And the people who pursued the castle were actually Kafka himself.
Kafka was born into a Jewish merchant family, and his father was always trying to control him. In order to please his father, he had to give up his love of literature and become an insurance salesman.
No matter how much he curries favor and compromises, he never gets his father's approval, and he repeatedly rudely interferes with his feelings.
He has been married three times, and then canceled three times, and has never been able to find his own home in his life.
This is also the end of the protagonist K.
But the difference is that Kafka did not completely indulge in it, but continued to create and write tens of thousands of words in addition to his boring work.
The unsatisfactory life and unsatisfactory emotions have become a steady stream of material for his writing.
He used sharp words and sentences to analyze the hardships of life, ** his own heart, and became a generation of literary masters.
Many times, life is like a castle that can't find an entrance, it can't be opened or broken.
The only way to get rid of it is to stop the internal friction and carve out a passage with force.
Just as a castle is a shackle to the human heart, a cage that imprisons life.
As long as you are willing to walk through the inner castle and say goodbye to the results you can't get, you will usher in a new life and become strong.