The Trial: last blog

As the Kafka's novel The Trial is coming to a close, K. goes to a cathedral to show the culture of his city to an Italian businessman. However, the man never presents himself. K. finds himself alone with the prison chaplain. The priest knows of the case and offers an analogy: "A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now (154)." The analogy is a reference to the general guidelines for the accused. The doorman is the lawyers; the other doormen, who the man never sees, are the higher officials. The man asks entry but is refused. Then, he waits for entry everyday as his life passes. He waits continually and constantly asks the doorman to let him in. He tries to bribe and pester his way, but the man stays firm by disallowing the countryman. Like the countrymen, the indicted people come to learn about the law but are barred by the complication of the task. They look to the lawyers to help but they do not in the slightest. Finally, they spend their entire lives trying to find justice but it is never found.

The Trial: Part 2

Chapter eight of The Trial ends by "This chapter was left unfinished (142)." This chapter ends randomly in the middle of a conversation  predominantly between Block and the lawyer. They were speaking about Block's trial as K. observes from the side. He listens closely to the conversation until that point, but it is not explained why the chapter ends so abruptly. Most likely, it is because the rest of the conversation does not have any influence upon K.'s thoughts. It is unnecessary to hear the rest because it gives no meaning to the work. Another theory is that K. left the room. Since the novel is limited to his point of view, he left room and the conversation ceases to be heard. Kafka leaves it incomplete to demonstrate the irrelavance of the words changed between the two people. Finally, the chapter's abruptness occurred because of the irrelavance to K.'s trial. Kafka did not want to focus on anything that did not elicit thought about K.'s case.

The Trial Part 2

In The Trial by Kafka, the lawyers creates various methods of trying to keep his clients underneath his power. He attempts to manipulate his clients to realize that the lawyer actively participates in each individual case. However, K. sees his scheme. "K. had the feeling he was listening to a contrived dialogue that had been repeated many times, that would be repeated many times more (139)..." One method is to use Leni. She acts like she intervenes on behalf of the client, which in this case is Block. Leni acts like she genuinely cares about the case and tries to help by coaxing answers out of the lawyer. It works perfectly on Block and others like him because he renews his enthusiasm within the case. Also, the lawyer use the art of generalization. Block wants to hear answers or anything about his case, yet the lawyers tells him that he spoke to a judge but never gives a name. The lawyer makes a template of material to use against his clients so that they will keep him in service. It demonstrates that the lawyers are not doing all that they can to help the client. They want more money than they want genuinely help the people in need.

The Trial Part 2

In Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, K. meets an interesting character named Block, the businessman. Block speaks of his case, which has much similarity to K.'s case. Both have not received substantial information about their cases, and they wait for their lawyer to give them evidence that something of meaning is being done for their case. However, Block takes other precautions to help win his case. He hires five "petty" lawyers, who he believes will help him win, yet he still constantly works on his case himself. He attempts to read newspapers, which the lawyer gives him. There is situational irony because although he spent so much money on lawyers, he still believes that he must be involved in his case. He desires to hear something about his case that he constantly stays in the waiting room. Block comments, "I'm there nearly every day (125)." Ironically, he should not have to demean himself to wait for information. He has six almost seven lawyers to help him with his case, yet he cannot get a scrap of detail about how is case is coming. They do not help him and the plethora lawyers does not help him in the slightest.                     

The Trial

In The Trial by Franz Kafka, K. draws a connection with the "accused", who have "their backs bowed, their knees bent, and they stood like beggars on the street (46)." Each person is in the same position as K., and he even acknowledges it by calling them his "colleagues (46)." However, as of this point, they are dissimilar. K. has a strong personality that does not yield to the trial's unusual proceedings while the others avert their gaze when people walk in the room. However, this is a foreshadowing of what is to come of K. All of these people are like K. as they try to find a way to convince the court of their innocence, yet they feel beaten and demoralized. Afterwards, his uncle tries to aid K.'s trial by getting a lawyer. Because of K.'s actions with the carer, he can no longer seek the lawyer's help, and he may have soiled his prospects of winning his case. Nonetheless, K. did not want to help his trial. He becomes indifferent to it by fraternizing with the carer while his uncle tries to help his case with the lawyer and the other gentleman (80). Through this perspective, K. is slowly becoming like the accused.

The Trial

Within the satirical novel, K. realizes the faults of the judicial system within his government. He is accused of a crime about which he does not have any knowledge. Kafka tries to enlighten the people of the disadvantages of a totalitarian government under which he lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In one scene, K. finds the two policemen, who arrested him, in a closet with a whip-man. He will punish them with his cane because they ate K.'s food and performed other unusual activities during K.'s arrest. This is a direct jibe on the police officers and the people in charge. At one point, Willem states, "Nothing would to us otherwise [if K. had not complained], not even if they'd found out what we'd done (61)." This quote establishes three components of the corrupt judicial system. Firstly, the officers would not have been punished for their procedural deviation. Secondly, the whip-man beats them for a simple infraction of eating food. Thirdly, the lower officers always do the jobs of the higher officials. They never take action so far in the book. They always have their cronies working for them. These three components are found within the present judicial system.

The Trial

In Kafka's novel The Trial, K. and the usher go into the attic offices of the court. While in the offices, K. meets the person, who could have altered his entire trial if he had not taken ill. This man's job is to "give information out" and "has an answer to every question (51)". Before this, K. has searched for answers in the judge's books and in the trial's first examination by his oratory. However, at this point, he does not realize how close he is to solving his mysterious crime. This man gives answers away, yet K. asks none. He cannot ask a single question because the oppressive nature of the offices overwhelm him. He becomes so intensely sick that he must be hauled into the fresh air. Immediately, he regains his strength. However, he may have lost the only opportunity to obtain any real answers about his mystery crime and trial.

The Trial

In The Trial by Franz Kafka, he separates his chapters by subtitles. They give the progression of the events, such as in chapter three, K. first goes to "The Empty Courtroom-The Student-The Offices (36)." It gives a clear identification of the various affairs through the chapter. It endorses the idea of a manuscript by a typist in an actual trial. The lawyers and she must separate the information in ways that it is easy to find but quickly to write. Kafka utilizes the main character's initial of his last name instead of his actual name. It demonstrates that the true identification of the indicted person cannot be given to the public. As a result, an air of mystery is given to the main character. He became a more general person, not a specific case. Therefore, Kafka declares that K.'s innocence and the judge's accusations of a crime are constant blunders in the realm of the justice system.