The Castle (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Any time
- Setting: Europe
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Villages, Symbolism, Castles, Employment or employees, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats
- Locales: Europe
Characters Discussed
K., a young man seeking entrance to the Castle. He is both puzzled and irritated by his inability to get to the Castle, where he had thought himself needed as a Land Surveyor. He never reaches the Castle. Kafka intended, in a chapter planned but never written, to relate that K. was to be given permission to live and work in the village though not to enter the Castle itself. K.’s efforts to reach the Castle resemble Christian’s struggle in The Pilgrim’s Progress to reach the Celestial City; however, Christian succeeds, whereas K. does not.
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