Kafkas In the Penal Colony Its a peculiar apparatus

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Kafkas In the Penal ColonyIts a peculiar
apparatus

• Group K
• Anniek, David, Corina, Helen and
  Annette

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Introduction

• Regime of Old Governer Rule of God?
• If so, how to interpret the new commandant and
  his regime?

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Scholars

•  Steinberg
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• Globus and Pillard the old Commandant is a
  representation of 'the primitive super-ego'
• Beck a suggestion of 'Mozes, or an ancient
  Hebrew priest, if not Jehova himself.'(in
  McGee 2007)

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Scholars

• Peters
• ... allegorical reference to Jahweh, as the
  Judaic one and all-knowing, but also supposedly
  all-punishing God. (in McGee 2007)

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Examples

• Old Commandant engineer and maker
• 'Diagrams made by the Commandant himself?'
  asked the Traveller. 'Then was he in his own
  person a combination of everything? Was he
  soldier, judge, engineer, chemist, and
  draftsman?' 'He was indeed,' said the Officer.
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• Officer's treatment of the diagrams 
• They are the most cherished thing I possess.

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Examples

• Punishment
• The basic principle I use for my decisions is
  this Guilt is always beyond a doubt. Other
  courts could not follow this principle, for they
  are made up of many heads and, in addition, have
  even higher courts above them. But that is not
  the case here, or at least it was not that way
  with the previous Commandant.

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The Inferno and The Penal Colony

• Medias Res
• Guides
• Surroundings and their functions
• PENAL
• 4. used as a place of confinement and punishment
  a penal colony.
• HELL
• the place or state of punishment of the wicked
  after death the abode of evil and condemned
  spirits
• any place or state of torment or misery.
• Principle of Contrapasso

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Existentialistic view

• God is dead
• Man replaces God
• New governor man
• New governor is weaker
• It's true the New Commandant has already shown a
  desire to get mixed up in my court, but I've
  succeeded so far in fending him off.
• Grave under tea house

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Old and new

• Old Testament - New Testament
• Old Commandant God of Old Testament
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• Officer Moses figure
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• New order of the colony (Be Just) Saved
  society of the New Testament