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Essay Archive - Kafka's The Trial: Guilt
Kafka's The Trial: Guilt
Guilt has relative existence; in one sense or another, every man
experiences guilt. Whether or not this guilt is worthy of punishment,
however, is another question. For this, modern society has created trials
that decide whether or not a person is guilty. However, sometimes the
actual guilt or innocence of an individual is not the most important aspect
of his or her trial. In the novel, The Trial, Franz Kafka uses his main
character Joseph K to show the unimportance of the actual guilt of an
individual. Although K is arrested and summoned by the courts, he is never
informed of his crime, or q....
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