The penal colony is a story with a setting of convicts . There is a machine other wise known as a apparatus that punishes it’s victims violently.The vibe聽 of the story of it being so hot especially for the officer can describe the chaos that is going around as these executions are taking place. The apparatus symbolizes the suffering many聽 colonized people will face.
As for聽 the colonizers they have complete control of the situation no matter if they are ethically right or wrong and in our societal system unjust killings of people like in the novel happen all the time. As for the officer killing himself聽 in the story it seems he wanted to make amends for all the wrong doing he has done. All of these problems just lead to chaos in the end with no structured society in place as wr have srrn in history many times before.
Are people who live in penal colonies(Like a prison) considered colonized? Genuinely don’t know if that word applies, because it’s an interesting use of it. Maybe the professor would know.
Yea i totally agree, we鈥檝e definitely seen this kind of situation happened multiple times in the past.
How do you think Kafka’s depiction of chaos and control in “In the Penal Colony” challenges conventional notions of justice and authority, and what implications does it have for our understanding of societal structures and power dynamics?
I like how the relationship you have from the story to our history
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