The Burrow

In “The Burrow,” Kafka's mind is in a battle against reality. The creature he has created is fighting for its own truthful world. It’s more of a psychological battle, perhaps emerging from a existential experience, than a physical one. This creature is attempting to set a shelter for itself as a way of fighting back. This entails the body’s (man, society, culture, etc.) efforts to impose a rational world onto the mind. Kafka seems to portray the world as a dystopian reality, from which he’s trying to seclude himself by building a robust space that is entirely self-sufficient. Of course, this fantastical idea of constructing a realm entirely detached from reality results in failure.