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

The Bucket RiderThis victimize taradiddle, true of Franz Kafkas surrealist writing, would bring the reader into roughly false hopes that the verbaliser would someway sound through the dilemma or fuss he is in, scarce finales in foiling and despair. Such false hopes that the narrator would somehow get some combust that she/he desperately needs are created by the semblanceal elements in the story. Somehow alikened to Aladdins flying carpet, the bucket becomes the narrators humble vehicle which safely brings her/him to the destination, the blacken corpuss cellar. Nevertheless, unlike Aladdin, the speaker verbalizes extreme dependence on the bucket and what it should contain, i.e., coal. We could likely interpret the bucket and the coal as the narrators germ of security that ought to be filled up once it goes empty.Probably it could be cardinals desire for love or (to be Freudian about it) it could be the libidinal desire for sexual gratification. In unmatched way o r an opposite, the characteristics of the bucket could be likened to human emotions like emotions the bucket flies, and like emotions, the bucket, likened to a steed, could not resist. There could credibly be many other interpretations on what the bucket and the coal may epitomize (as well as what the coal dealer and his wife, and solely the other elements in the petty story epitomize) still one matter clear is the ending that eventually, coal would pasture out and when it does at the gunpoint when one is without means ( hardly to beg) to get a bare-assed supply, then one would have to end in despair, in the regions of the ice mountains. This is the perennial Kafka theme that human life is necessarily frustrating and riddled with anxiety, riddles that seem not to have any answers.The Country DoctorThis sententious story stands out for its repeated physical exercise in classes in demonstrating Freudian psychoanalysis. A number of psychology and literature professors vie w using this succinct 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 pursue in length. It may be enough for the purposes of this short essay to say that the groom, the adulterates alter ego, could very likely represent his id, the hidden erotic side of his personality, and that earthly concern a businessal could simply be the sublimation of his sexual desires.Such would bring a safe and sound new figure in the short story nevertheless, I would want to point out, not how the stainless short story could very well demonstrate Freud, but the theme of how frustrating human mankind could be. The district doctor is ironi cryy pictured as authorityless to attend to his experience needs and desires. Torn by the call of duty, he did not have the power to stop the groom from running aft(prenominal) Rose when he explicitly verbalise that he does not have the figure of handing the wet-nurse to the groom.It should be mentioned that the groom and the horses magically came from the doctors aver pigsty, which make Rose say, You never k now what youre going to find in your own house. Such a frustrating introduction could very well be seen in the patients house as the doctor once again is caught in the frustrating dilemma of a fit boy wanting to die, only to be reversed afterwards, i.e., after diagnosing that the boy indeed is sick, this time the boy wants to live. trance in the patients house, the doctor is constantly troubled by the horses, the parents, the sister, and other human beings like the village elders. once again he proved to be mazed when his upper garments were removed from him.He managed to escape but this time his magical horses would not jog but would rather go slow. The doctor, now in between the patients house and his own, gives a cry of despair Never shall I reach kinsfolk at this rate my practice is through for. All of what he has, i.e., his home and his maid as well as his profession are all now gone, all because he made a skid to respond 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 preservation his own self.ConclusionThough there are overt differences as regards the characters, the use of symbols and elements, etcetera, we could say that the deuce essays are similar 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.