A Hunger Artist By Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka wrote "A Hunger Artist" in 1924, he show us a story about an artist who try to illustrate his philosophy of hunger to other people; however, it is not be accepted by society on that time. The artist who have been describe on the story keep himself fasting for forty days that is very hard stick to do it and he made it. In the whole story, the author uses a lot of word to show us how the artist likes his work. He is so enjoy when he go though fasting and himself immersed in a world of his own feeling. Unfortunately, no one truly understood what he is doing. What's more, Franz Kafka's story want to tell us so many people not really appreciate the artist professional artwork in the real world and the artists who are ignored by people
stuck stubbornly to their suspicions"(394). In other word, the artist is a nice and friendly person because he buys breakfast for those people who are watching him day and night. Those people are the hunger artist support and they can make him relaxed and make him know the reason why he needs to be fasting in the cage. What is more, fasting is easier for the artist to do in the present society because people go thought to develop themselves by time that they can easier to understand what the artist doing. In the story, the author describes that," and finally two young ladies appeared, blissful at having been selected for the honor, to help the hunger artist down the few steps leading to a small table on which was spread.....bending over him" (395). That two young lady just lucky to get closer with the artist but they are not get closer to the artist inner world. At the end of the story, the artist wants to go the circus to pursue his artwork in his later years. However, people no longer enjoy or appreciate his artwork anymore because "during these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished"
He knows that his road is so difficult, but he still want to keep going and work hard on his artwork. As a result, the artist is not only physically hungry, but also mentally hungry. He just want to tell people, human also is an animal and why we need to put other animal in the cage to make us happy and make money from them. If you agree with put animal to the circus and training them to make some funny motion, we also can put human in to the cage and make money from the human who make some show in the circus. Everything is same even human and animal. A human is a life and a animal also is a life. In Kafka's story reflects the restraint for artwork in our society. Most importantly, in most people's eyes, the artist is a kind of money-making tool, just like the animal in the circus. In the story, as the author demonstrates that ," They buried the hunger artist, straw and all. Into the cage they put a young panther. Even the most insensitive felt it refreshing to see this wild creature leaping around the cage that had so long been