Sunday, April 6, 2008

An Imperial Message

In An Imperial Message one can see that a subject of the Emperor who is very humble gets a message from the Emperor when he is on his death bed but why did he want to deliver this message to a no one what was so special about him. I got a sense of a change to this empire had come. It was similar to a story from the bible. The story was that change and leadership can come from people we would least expect. Maybe a good leader is humble which is why the emperor called for him. At the end when the narrator says “But you sit at home at your window when evening falls and dream it yourself” I had a sense that we get stuck into the mind the world wants us to be and we give up our dreams to conform to the world. We need to do the things we are best at and not care what others think. It has the similar meaning one can get form The Metamorphosis. It is still a very complicated piece to comprehend there are just so many levels at which Kafka is writing. I still question the meaning of this piece.

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