A COUNTRY

DOCTOR BY
FRANZ KAFKA

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Rümeysa Keçeci
FRANZ KAFKA

• 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924

• Prague, Bohemia (Czech
Republic)
• A German-speaking novelist and
short-story writer
• Realism and Fantastic
• Hisbest known works include The
Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The
Castle. Few of Kafka's works were
published during his lifetime: the
story collections Contemplation and
A Country Doctor, and individual
stories were published in literary
magazines but received little public
attention.
• In
his will, Kafka instructed his
executor and friend Max Brod to
destroy his unfinished works but
Brod ignored these instructions.
 Summary
"I’m staying with Rose"
"Doctor, let me die"

"Instead of helping me, you’re cramping me on my death bed"

"Will you save me ? "

"It’s a shame. And yet I’m a doctor. What am to do? "

Strip his clothes off, then he’ll heal us,

If he doesn’t, kill him dead!
O be joyful, all you patients,
Only a doctor, only a doctor.
The doctor’s laid in bed beside you!

Betrayed! Betrayed!
Parts Of The Plot
• Rising Action: The doctor had received work to
help an ill boy who was far from ten miles, and while
he searched for a horse, the groom suddenly appeared
in the barn.

• Climax: After realizing that the doctor could not cure

the patient, the school choir sang some words. So that
his clothes were taken off, and they laid him down
next to the ill boy.

• Falling Action: With the word of honor of an

official doctor to the patient, the doctor could persuade
him and he tried to escape from the house.
Part Of The Plot
• Exposition: The first part of story
includes so many descriptions. It talks
about weather condition, SERIOUSLY ill
patient, and country roads. It also refers to
the servant girl and the groom.
Inciting Incident: When the groom
came and the doctor rode away.

• Denouement: The doctor finally

talked to himself and realized that
everyone had deceived him.
Characters
The Doctor The Servant Girl(Rose)

The Groom The Patient

 Setting
Place: Time: Weather Conditions
a country road,
in few hours winter
a pig barn,
a sick house, snowy
an outside
Point of View
First Person POV
Conflict

External:
• Between the doctor and the groom
• Between the doctor and the family

Internal:
• The doctor in himself
 Themes
Existence Problem:
«I was in great perplexity»
«I confirmed what I already knew»
«Betrayed!»

Alienation:

«Never shall I reach home at this rate; my flourishing

practice is done for; my successor is robbing me…»
Pressure

• To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an

understanding with people is hard.

• The mother, apparently disappointed in me…

• Always expecting the impossible from the doctor.

Fantasy
• Unearhtly horses
• I did not know where he came from
• My clothes were off and I looked at the people quietly
REFERENCES
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
o https://www.kafka-online.info/franz-kafka-biography.htm
o https://litpriest.com/authors/franz-kafka/
o https://www.supersummary.com/a-country-doctor/summary/
o https://niizk.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/franz-kafkas-a-country-doctor/
o https://www.gradesaver.com/a-country-doctor/study-guide/character-list
o https://www.gradesaver.com/a-country-doctor/study-guide/literary-elements
o https://
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