Kafka's Metamorphosis, 'In The Penal Colony'

The Metamorphosis, The Judgement, In the Penal Colony, and many more are all written by the brilliant Franz Kafka. Like any other person we all have a story, and most authors incorporate a lot their lives and feelings into their book in different symbolic ways.
Kafka was born in Prague, Czech Republic on July 3, 1883. He grew up in a wealthier Jewish middle class family, with three younger sisters. Kafka was the oldest, sadly his two younger brothers died during infancy, and his sisters later died in either a Nazi death camp or in a Polish ghetto. Kafka was not as close to his mother and father either. His mother did not fully grasp Kafka’s desire to become an author, and his father wasn’t much better. To Kafka, in the long run, his relationship

with his father helped him write many of his stories. Kafka’s father held the figure of a tyrant in the eyes of Kafka. In Kafka’s books such as The Metamorphosis the father figure is portrayed as an antagonist, much like in real life.
Like most, Kafka didn’t start working in a profession he was passionate about, like writing. Kafka had gotten a job at an insurance company and did not get to write that often; he stayed with this insurance company for many years though, even if the job did not suit him. Kafka only left when his health would no longer continue to let Kafka work. Kafka had tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial infection that affects your tissue and usually your lungs.
At work Kafka was well liked, but his personal life was more complicated. He was twice engaged to a woman by the name of Felice Bauer, but in the end they both split up. Eventually, Kafka found love. He fell in love with Dora Dymant. They both shared the same beliefs, Judaism as well as the beliefs of socialism. Dora and Kafka got married and lived in Berlin, until Kafka’s health was deteriorating too much. Then they decided to move back to Prague. On June 3, 1924 Kafka died in Kierling, Austria at the age of 40. He was the buried next to his parents in a Jewish cemetery in Prague.
Kafka’s life was one of the harder lives to live, but all in all he had a good life. He was able to use his life story and put it into books that are still read and analyzed today. He might not have been well known when he died, but now he is a well respected author and his books even influenced German literature.