Essay Archive - Kafka's The Trial: The Reality of Guilt
Kafka's The Trial: The Reality of Guilt
"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having
done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning (FK 1). " In his book
entitled "The Trial," Franz Kafka introduces the reader to the main
character and presents a major theme in the novel with this sentence. The
sentence leads the readers to assume that (1) Joseph is a decent man, far
from a criminal and (2) there is a flaw in the process itself. Kafka has
composed this sentence in a way, which may influence the r....
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