The Trial
The reader meets a man witnessing an absurd from of "justice" - a legal system without logic.
Represents a common theme among his writing: all people are guilty of something and the punishments are in inverse proportion to the sin.
Joseph K. awakes one night to discover men walking about the boarding house in which he resides. These men promptly arrest Josef, without stating a reason. When Josef asks why he is being arrested, one man tells him he will be told in "due course". The reader senses immediately Josef will not learn what crime he has committed, especially if the reader is familiar with Kafka. maybe Josef has committed no crime, or maybe the crime was minor, but the reader knows the punishment is certainly severe.
Existential ties to The Trial:
The individual accepts and even embraces the absurdity of life. Existentialism and the absurdism of Camus are often considered together in philosophy and literature. Kafka explores the absurd relationships between individuals, society, technology, and words. Kafka meets the basic criteria of existentialism.
One aspect shared by most existentialist is their individualism.
Kafka has no philosophical or political motives and merely wants to reflect what he has seen of human nature.
The major difference between Camus and Kafka is that Camus attempts to provide an answer for the problem Kafka sees as inescapable.
-from http://www.tamen.com/csw/exist/kafka.shtml
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