Explain how Kafka's writing contributes to your understanding of the Gothic/Emprire

Kafka was creepy, weird, and confusing. He writing was totally gothic. He was jewish born and had an overbearing father. He trained as a lawer and worked in an insurence company in the castle. His life was very opressed. He wrote in German but spoke Czech. Which meant he was stuck in the middle. Also my theory was that he was also gay. Which adding in the opressive father figure and the jewish religion can create some major problems. That is why he writes of opression and the obsurdity of beuacracy of the castle.

The works we read by Kafka explain his life perfectly for me. The judgement was about an overbearing father who abused and opressed his son. The castle was about a man wandering in confusion trying to bypass the beuacracy of the castle but never able to reach his goal. My conculsion about Kafka was shown to me at the museam. There we learned about his life. Being strictly religious. Daddy issues. Many failed engagments. And best friends that he was really close to.

Although strangly enough it was not from reading that I made his connection, but from the pictures of Kafka and his actor friend. They just kinda look gay. Just the look in their eyes and something about their aura I guess. Not exactly sure. But it just explains why Kafka had so many problems with opression and depression.