... story's utilization of significant symbols, writing style, and imagery, are very precise to express the main theme in the short story about life, consciousness, and existence. The story is about a hunger artist who always fasts for the people to entertain them but later found that he is struggling to keep his reputation and better himself. The people slowly started to lose interest ... suffering. This indifference suggests that faith and spirituality have no place in the modern world. Kafka seems to suggest that the hunger artist's popularity, and, by extension, Christ's, is just a tren...

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• Grade Level: High School

... metaphor made concrete, and his death is Kafka's despairing comment on language as a mode of communication. We can see very similar sentiments in nearly all of Kafka's texts. In "The Hunger Artist" we see the metaphor starved of all significance by the greedy needs of those who use it for their amusement; in "The Burrow" we have another concretization of the metaphor ... ...

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