Fraulein Burstner Psychological Analysis

Furiously kissing Fraulein in her room at night, K seeks to fulfill his sexual desire and gain superiority over her while She is exhausted and unwilling to let anyone in her room at night. I am going to explain K’s objectives and obstacles when kissing Fraulein Burstner.

Firstly, K’s first objective of kissing Fraulein Burstner was to achieve his sexual desire. Commonly, he would visit a woman named ‘Elsa’ who would fulfill K’s sensual demand. He says, “…received her visitors only in bed.” (Kafka,14). Furthermore, although he could have visited Elsa for the achievement of his desire, he decided to wait for Fraulein Burstner who made K uncomfortable for causing the disorder of his daily habit and the inability to release his sexual desire. He says, “…by coming late, she was introducing disturbance and disorder…her fault…had put off the visit to Elsa planned for today.” (Kafka, 18). These behaviors of K represent his promiscuous sexual life that is rooted deep inside him and K’s view of woman as the remedy that allows him to release his sexual aggression, strengthening K’s disrespectful way of dealing with women generally. Additionally, this crumble K’s innocent image from the readers, as an individual whose life is at the verge of calamity by the arrest when he claims himself innocent which

She says, “It was totally unnecessary to choose this late hour for doing that.” (Kafka, 21). Hence her exhaustion and the inability to resist K’s emerging invasion made her look more vulnerable from K’s view. She says, “fainter voice: I am so tired…permitting more than I should.” (Kafka, 21). K have no choice but to make his case looks interesting and appealing to her while she may fully give up on K’s case, making K impossible to establish relationship with her and fulfills two objectives that he intended to