The information about the arrest, which no reason or explanation was given for, was immediately followed by a couple of other events that only confirmed the shadiness and dirtiness of the court: the officers made it quite clear (almost insisted) that bribing is welcome (even though it would not benefit K. His daily routine was disturbed and it was one of the first signs of the anxiety, tension and misunderstandings he was about to face in the future. The moment official guards showed up, the usual order of K.’s life was interrupted and bound to change.
“The Trial” lets a reader to have a deep look into the chaotic, senseless and confusing hierarchical chain of the bureaucracy, which imprisons its victims in often unreasonbale circle of formalities and businesses.įrom the beginning of the novel it is strongly felt how bureaucracy interferes with people’s lives making them meaninglessly complicated and what a multilayered and unstable phenomenon is judicial system.
Franz Kafka himself was, in a sense, a member of the bureaucratic world as his official profession was a lawyer presumably, his writings were inspired by his formal day job. There is no single interpretation of “The Trial”, however, the essay will only focus on the mindless bureaucratic processes the protagonist has to face. K.’s death, perhaps, was the only way for him to escape the bureaucracy web he found himself caught up in. is allowed to continue living his life “normally”, he is trying to make sense of his trial until being executed without any progress or clarity in his case. This rather surreal and pessimistic narrative begins when two guards show up on K.’s 30th birthday and put him under arrest.
Written at the beginning of the 20th century “The Trial” depicts “the rise of bureaucracy, the power of law, and the atomization of the individual”, which are allegorically reflected in a story about Joseph K., a bank employee who is accused of unspecified crimes.
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