When 1 is foremost introduced to this narrative, what comes to mind is a physician who is so to a great extent depended on by his society. He appears like the lone solution, the lone hope for a adult male who is earnestly sick and is 10 stat mis off. The finding and committedness of this physician, to be at that place with the patient by all agencies is about touchable.

However the state physician is hindered. The conditions, the winter, is a major challenge. The winter seems to hold opened door after another for bad lucks… great bad lucks, defeats. The Equus caballus he needs most for this journey has been overtaken by the winter and is now dead. The bad luck in bend consequences to troubling Rosa. She has to travel all over the small town borrowing a Equus caballus. At this point one can non neglect to detect that the physician ‘s feature of finding has vanished. He is merely standing at that place, continually acquiring covered in snow. The more Rosa takes clip to come place with a solution, the less aggressive the physician becomes, he becomes immobile.

The other major challenge this physician faces is the society he is covering with, really working for. This scenario leaves a batch to be desired. This physician seems to hold given himself to the society. Yet the same society has no room to react to his demands ; even the demand for a Equus caballus he could utilize to enable him to go to to a patient. It is such a hit back for the physician to work for a society he does n’t look to to the full depend even if it ‘s for moral support. He says it is non easy to acquire to a degree of understanding with people. He really feels the full part tortures him. He is merely being used. “ As physician he is a thing, an object, a tool ; as adult male he is nil ‘ ( web.wikipedia.org )

Reading through the state physician narrative, the 3rd major challenge I see this physician handling is his ain ego. He is non as strong hearted as he should likely be. Faced by a challenge which he feels he has no reply to, he ends up experiencing tormented. When asked a inquiry by a alien, he does non cognize what to state! When supporting Rosa, he does non travel all the manner because he instantly remembers the aid he is having from the groom. He looks like one who is torn between picks. When left entirely with his patient, he wonders what he is supposed to make and squeal that things are non easy for him either. He ends up traveling through a ritual that spiritually cleanses the immature adult male but the physician himself is sullied. ( web.storybites.com )

The 4th challenge faced by the state physician is poorness. When a state of affairs presents itself before him and he has to take between supporting Rosa and closing up lest he loses the aid, we see him non covering with the issue of Rosa he and with great felicity he climbs the Equus caballuss. When the physician tells the groom he is non go forthing Rosa to him, the groom ignores him, directs the Equus caballuss to sit him off as though what he said was nil.

This narrative is a true presentation of a incubus. Franz Kafka is invariably happening himself in state of affairss that leave him lacerate between several determinations to do. It is a true incubus to be in demand of a Equus caballus to do an pressing journey and the lone Equus caballus that would hold been used for this journey dies a dark before. It is a incubus to walk all over the same small town one wholeheartedly serves and they wo n’t give you assist when you severely need it. The state physician, holding gone through all the troubles to acquire to his patient, the premise that the immature adult male is really good is hit back by the rude daze that the immature adult male is really deceasing from an incurable lesion. He gives up Rosa to come and go to to this patient and what does he acquire in return? A patient who has uncertainties with him. Then finally he finds himself a captive, lying beside a lesion he does n’t desire to look at, and he has to acquire agencies of flight. His journey back should be Swift ; he needs to hotfoot back for the interest of Rosa. When he severely wants the Equus caballuss to hotfoot, the Equus caballuss alternatively drag themselves and he equalizes their velocity to that of old work forces! What a incubus! ‘Kafka narrative proves nil to be at all like the factual being of a state physician ‘ ( web.directessays.com 05 2010 )

There are definite subjects that come in ready to hand with the state physician narrative. One major subject is communicating. Rosa has found Equus caballuss but does n’t clearly pass on the same to the physician. He says the society he works for does non cognize when to name him and when its non. This is besides apparent in the patient ‘s household. The immature adult male wants to be left entirely to decease but the household has no thought about that. It can be said the household does non truly understand the impact this lesion has had on the bosom, head and emotions of their patient. When the physician arrives, they do non explicate the position of the immature adult male to the physician, they seem to be stating since he is the physician he should cognize. When the physician arrives to this homestead, he says he is non able to penetrate anything from their baffled speaking. The physician is lost in his ain ideas hapless communicating makes the patient ‘s sister assume the physician is enduring from heat and removes his coat. The old adult male assumes the physician wo n’t imbibe because he is unwell. The degree of premise realized here can merely be interpreted as hapless communicating.

Another subject that is reflected in this narrative is poverty. Right from the start we see a people who do non hold adequate resources even to maintain the animate beings they severely need warm during the winter period. When one Equus caballus dies, it becomes genuinely difficult to happen another, even a borrowed one. The 1 who lends the Equus caballus feels justified to be barbarous. When the physician is received into the patient ‘s place, we see him, a ill adult male in the same room with a ignored cookery range which is smoking. This subject is clearly brought to visible radiation when the physician says he is ill paid. The fact that this old physician is driving himself around and does n’t look excited about it, it shows he can non afford to pay to be driven around.

Towards the terminal of the narrative, the subject of faith is brought to visible radiation. The physician notices with concern that the priests have lost their topographic point in the society. People there had diverted their assurance to scientific discipline and as a consequence expect that the physician will manage each of their issues supplying replies, making the impossible, as he puts it.

The state physician is a narrative that carries one ‘s emotions, even though at the same clip it looks like a flow of a dream, unpleasant dream for the physician.