A short analysis of “The Bucket Rider” and “A Country Doctor”

The Bucket RiderThis short story, typical of Franz Kafkas surrealist writing, would bring the contributor into some false hopes that the speaker would somehow get through the dilemma or problem he is in, but ends in frustration and despair. much(prenominal) false hopes that the narrator would somehow get some scorch that she/he desperately needs atomic number 18 created by the magical elements in the story. someways likened to Aladdins flying carpet, the bucket becomes the narrators humble fomite which safely brings her/him to the destination, the ember dealers cellar. Nevertheless, unlike Aladdin, the speaker shows extremum dependence on the bucket and what it should contain, i.e., coal. We could likely interpret the bucket and the coal as the narrators source of security that ought to be make full up once it goes empty.Probably it could be sensations confide for honey or (to be Freudian about it) it could be the libidinal desire for sexual gratification. In one way or a n onher, the characteristics of the bucket could be likened to serviceman emotions like emotions the bucket flies, and like emotions, the bucket, likened to a steed, could not resist. there could probably be many other interpretations on what the bucket and the coal may represent (as well as what the coal dealer and his wife, and on the whole in all the other elements in the short story represent) but one function clear is the ending that eventually, coal would run out and when it does at the forecast when one is without means (but to beg) to get a new supply, then one would have to end in despair, in the regions of the ice mountains. This is the recurrent Kafka fundament that human life is inescapably frustrating and riddled with anxiety, riddles that seem not to have any answers.The Country DoctorThis short story stands out for its iterate use in classes in demonstrating Freudian psychoanalysis. A number of psychological science and literature professors fancy using this sho rt story to show how a classic surrealist literature could be Freudian. True, the elements of this short story could well be translated in Freudian terms but that I shall not imitate in length. It may be enough for the purposes of this short es rank to say that the make, the doctors alter ego, could very likely represent his id, the isolated erotic side of his personality, and that being a professional could simply be the sublimation of his sexual desires.Such would bring a whole new simulacrum in the short story nevertheless, I would want to point out, not how the inbuilt short story could very well demonstrate Freud, but the writing of how frustrating human mankind could be. The district doctor is ironically portray as powerless to attend to his own needs and desires. Torn by the call of duty, he did not have the power to stop the groom from running after Rose when he explicitly said that he does not have the intention of handing the maid to the groom.It should be mentione d that the groom and the horses magically came from the doctors own pigsty, which made Rose say, You never accredit what youre going to find in your own sign of the zodiac. Such a frustrating existence could very well be seen in the unhurrieds house as the doctor once again is caught in the frustrating dilemma of a healthy boy wanting to die, solely to be reversed afterwards, i.e., after diagnosing that the boy indeed is sick, this m the boy wants to live. While in the patients house, the doctor is everlastingly troubled by the horses, the parents, the sister, and other human beings like the village elders. once again he proved to be helpless when his upper garments were removed from him.He managed to hedge but this time his magical horses would not canter but would sort of go slow. The doctor, now in between the patients house and his own, gives a cry of despair Never shall I reach scale at this rate my practice is done for. All of what he has, i.e., his category and his maid as well as his profession are all now gone, all because he made a mistake to reply to a false alarm. These entire surrealist events point to the meaninglessness of it all, the frustrating existence of the country doctor who is incapable of saving his own self.ConclusionThough there are obvious differences as regards the characters, the use of symbols and elements, etcetera, we could say that the two essays are standardized in a number of ways the theme, i.e., inescapability of frustrations and powerlessness in human existence the use of surrealism and magic and the possible use of Freudian paradigm to interpret the elements of the stories. All these we have seen in our discussion above.