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Penal Colony

            Franz Kafka was born in Prague, Bohemia, July 3, 1883 and died June 3, 1924 of tuberculosis at the age of 40. He came from a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a shopkeeper and tried to climb up the social ladder by working hard at his shop and sending Franz to a prestigious German high school. He went on to get a law degree and worked for two insurance companies (not at the same time) When his .tuberculosis got bad in 1917 he was put on temporary retirement with a pension. German was the language the upper class spoke and by sending Franz to German schools his father tried to disassociate from the lower class Jewish who lived in the ghetto. They were always moving from apartment to apartment advancing as the business grew. Franz had a very strained relationship with his father that traumatically affected his whole life. This is apparent in a letter to his father he wrote, "What was always incomprehensible to me was your total lack of feeling for the suffering and shame you could inflict on me with your words and judgments. It was as though you had no notion of your power" (Letter) . Max Brod and Franz met in college and became life long friends. It was Max who persuaded Franz to publish some of his work and it was Max who was responsible for most of the Kafka writings that are available today. Franz had entrusted his manuscripts to Max and in his last will and testament specified that all his work was to be destroyed. Instead Max had them published after Franz" death. Although he never married, he was engaged several times but always broke the engagement as the wedding day would approach. Most of the biographies about him tell of his problem with women and repulsion from sex and say that it was evident in his writings. In an entry in his diary he wrote "Coitus as the punishment for the happiness of being together" (Constructing). His romances and engagements are well documented and it is interesting to note his selection of books that he gave to Felice Bauer: "Tolstoy's diaries, the New and Old Testament, and Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fool in Christ Emanuel Quint'" (Times ).


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1. Comparing in the Penal Colonny to the Events of 9/11

English Project - In the Penal Colony This project is a comparison to In the Penal Colony by Frank Kafka. ... The device that was used in In the Penal Colony was a pointless device. ... This (though not quite on the same scale) is comparable to the killing machine devised by the general in In the Penal Colony. ... That is exactly what the Penal Coolny is. ... As is In the Penal Colony. ...

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2. Captain Hobson

Downing Street. October 17th, 1839. Sir, As the new Secretary of State for the Colonies I wish to begin with our most important task at hand, the fair colonisation of New Zealand. Lord Normanby believed this to be the most significant undertaking to the British Crown at this time, and I s...

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3. Justifying Murder in Crime and Punishment

Conversely, The Officer, In the Penal Colony, holds on dearly to the traditions of the former Commandant, while the rest of the colony seems to discard the old traditions and mock them. The Officer is devoted to the justice system of the old colony and struggles to defend its practice under the new Commandant. ... While Raskolnikov struggles with justifying his actions, the Officer is devoted to the penal colony's system of justice, which is represented by the apparatus. In the beginning of In the Penal Colony, the Officer is accompanied by a visitor, the Traveler. ... While Raskolnikov s...

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4. Why Did the British Establish a Colony in Australia?

So on 18th August1786, the British government decided to set up a penal colony in New Holland. ... Many people see Australia's colony started as a dumping ground for convicts but as you can see it was a great deal more than that. ...

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5. William Penn and Colonial Pennsylvania

Thus, he was granted his claim, and, influenced by many factors, the new colony was born. ... Thus, he passed a new Frame called the Charter of Privileges enhancing the colony's governing. ... " Moreover, he granted the colonists an enlightened penal system, which was meant to teach and reform not only to punish. ... Furthermore, the First and Second Continental Congress were fittingly held in his colony. ... Growth was enhanced through attracting many immigrants from Europe due to it being a peaceful colony. ...

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6. Sacrafice in Kafka

In Franz Kafka's stories "The Metamorphosis", "In The Penal Colony", and "The Fasting-Artist", the protagonists, Gregor Samsa, the officer, and the fasting-artist, each make apparent sacrifices. ... The penal colony's officer, who tries, prosecutes, sentences, and executes prisoners convicted of crimes such as insubordination, shows a voyager the colony's method of execution: death by a machine that carves the commandment violated on the condemned man's flesh. ... The voyager, understandably upset by the process of justice in the colony, is resolved to condemn the means of ...

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7. Religion's Influence on America

(Eliot) Virginia had also passed several acts regarding religion in their colony. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson pointed out that Virginians : had made it penal in parents to refuse to have their children baptized; had prohibited the unlawful assembling of Quakers; had made it penal for any master of a vessel to bring a Quaker into the state; had ordered those already here, and such as should come thereafter, to be imprisoned till they should abjure the country; provided a milder punishment for their first and second return, but death for their third; had inhibited...

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8. 18th Century European Settlement of Western North Carolina

This is also the way North Carolina was painted by those hoping to persuade new settlers to come to the colony. ... The Scotch-Irish were now not inhibited by the English government in a way that persecuted them for their religious practices, there were no Penal laws here. Although the Church of England was the official church in the colony also, the law was not enforceable. ... There were enough new lands in the colony that their wasteful practices did not inhibit them. ...

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9. Australian Demographics

When the first European settlement was established in 1788 at Port Jackson; this settlement was a British penal colony that later grew into the city of Sydney we know today. ... This time the change will not be brought about by settlers building penal colonies, but by immigrants slowly entering the country year after year. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

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