Kafka's The Trial: The Reality Of Guilt

Part I of Essay
"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 t ....

Part II of Essay
.... but could be guilt itself. An important note to keep in mind while reading "The Trial" is Kafka's structural organization of paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs are confusing and lengthy; some even more than one or two pages long. In chapter two when Joseph is speaking at the Court of Inquiry, he is abruptly interrupted by the shrieks of a woman. Kafka explains the scene in almost two pages, paying extreme attention to detail. Most of his descriptions seem unnecessary, redundant, and quite confusing. At one point he is describing the scen ....