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A 4 page essay that discusses the meaning of Franz Kafka's The Trial. The writer argues that the case against Josef K. parallels Kafka's reactions to having tuberculosis. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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between the "inaccessible courts unspecified accusations and K.s insistence on his own innocence" (Goebel 42). This is a surreal work that undoubtedly illustrates a deeply psychological meaning. However, critics tend
to be widely divergent in their views as to precisely what this psychological meaning might be. One view holds that it is a "parable about the absurdity of modern life"
while another view is that it is an indictment against the "soul-crushing bureaucracy of the Austro- Hungarian Empire" (Anderson). While these interpretations have merit and a good case can be
made for these, as well as other interpretations, this writer/tutor tends to feel that Kafka was relating directly to his own psychological state and that the Court and also other
characters within the novel are representative of different aspects of Josef K.s subconscious. For example, many of the principal characters represent some form of authority. Josef K. himself is
an officer in a bank. Frau Gruber, as his landlady, has authority over him, as does his lawyer, Dr. Huld. There is also the investigating officer and various bank executives,
as well as court and police officers, as well as others who remain nameless and therefore as unknowable as the accusations made again K. These characters, while presenting the concept
that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on an allegorical level, as the Court that accuses
K. is omnipresent in the world, as their offices are present everywhere, "housed in the attics of rundown tenements, in windowless offices" (Antonaya). Critic Gyorgy Lukacs comments that, in
Kafkas mindset, the supreme judges represent "transcendence," specifically the "transcendence of Nothingness," as everyone "believes in their existence and omnipotence; but nobody knows them, nobody knows how they can be
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