5/9/2023 0 Comments The trial franz kafka pages![]() ![]() The story itself begins with a sentence, “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested” ( The Trial 1). One of the central themes in The Trial is the theme of bureaucracy, law, and an individual’s utter powerlessness against them. ![]() After that, we will proceed to considering some of the possible interpretations of the text, and, finally, we will discuss some parallels between the Kafkaesque law and contemporary American system of judgment. In our paper, we will look into this theme by discussing the main features of the trial against the novel’s protagonist. One of his novels, Der Process (The Trial), was written in 1914-1915 and first published in 1925 (Brown 487-489) it addresses the theme of law, its agents, and the person’s helplessness against them. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. ![]()
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