The paradoxes in the judicial system - analysis of Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial"

Franz Kafka is one of the most prominent German-language writers of the 20th century, whose works have been largely posthumously published. One of Kafka's greatest achievements is "The Trial" - a vibrant novel depicting the absurdity of the word and revealing an extremely cumbersome judiciary. But this is also a novel about the loneliness of a person obliged to cope with his personal drama. In the book "The Trial", the topic of the cumbersome absurd judicial system is at the forefront. In the beginning of the work, Joseph K. Stavava is the victim of a strange and all-powerful court, accusing him of a crime that remains unknown until the end. There is no other book in all the world literature, which has seen and captured the real face of the judicial system more precisely than it really is. The absurdity of its opacity and clumsiness kept the reader's attention and turned the book into a real masterpiece.

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The beginning of the work is a simple sentence, whose specificity of art is characteristic of the grim topic in literature. Only with this first sentence the author introduces us to the situation, namely Joseph K. is arrested. He is innocent, and even the author himself assumes he was slandered without committing any evil. Hence the fatalism of existence in the Process: the character does not know what he is accused of, all he knows is there is a trial and there will be some conviction. That should be, in fact, but not in this book-here nothing it's right, it's all upright. The judiciary is just absurd, and it's precisely it, and it is not K. that is the one to be sued because instead of being the one who monitors the observance of law and human rights, it is the one that violates the law and the natural human rights. Since Joseph is accused he is in the right to know the cause of his arrest, otherwise the court hides important information and runs counter to its own principles and device. it seems so simple, this arrest gives the launch of one of the most dragon in their cool intensity of intensity in the penetration and understanding of the essence and the essence of the judicial system, which appears to be a machine of insight, lacking in reason and logic, and above all deprived of justice. But, drawing inward into the work, seeing that this injustice has been confiscated only on one individual, even the reader himself seems to be experiencing the grave fate of this one who has not deserved this whole man, whose freedom, most important to a man, is taken away in a terrible way. With the vague and absurd arrest, the author tells us to expect the impossible as things are not as they should be. After his arrest Josef gets permission to go to work despite the fact that he is detained. He is only supervised by two of his own colleagues, who all turn out to be their subordinates. The hero's life does not change especially after the news of the arrest, everything is as old as nothing has happened until the moment when the first case of his trial arrives.

This is what he is expecting from here onwards. There is also the scheduled day when he goes to court in the hope of knowing more, more precisely, to understand anything at all that will help him understand what he has wronged by the court and how to get in, what to do to be pardoned and released, although to this point, as well as later in the work, he is never physically retained. On the contrary, he simply tortures him with the fact of his own process and even more the unknown. The place where this first trial is carried out is also the same and everything is somewhat too far from the idea of a true court in which important deeds are dealt with and in which all laws are strictly observed. Joseph K. loses a long while until he finds the right place where he has to go, meets everybody from the children playing in the yard and the peasant who was washing the clothes until he found the courtroom. Inside, it seemed as if time had stopped, and people had fallen into a lean state. According to Joseph, all this is a playful play to deceive the accused and provoke him to admit his own guilt, but in the case it is nonexistent, since K. is innocent. This submissive behavior of the court and the people in it is indecent, but that is not the only unreasonable case for the place. Understands a lot of secrets that completely contradict the rights of the constitution and which destroy the rights of the people, make part of the population slaves, which is always obliged to agree with what is imposed on it. As an example, it is the woman, which K. sees at the beginning of the wash. She is the wife of the extrovert who is obliged to obey the student's orders only to leave the man at work