is consumed by guilt and condemned for a crime he does not understand by a court with which he cannot communicate.
On the level of the individual versus the bureaucracy, Josef K. The Trial is also meant to symbolize original sin and guilt. Josef K.’s attempt to find justice end in his utter frustration, his complete loss of human dignity, and his cruel death by stabbing. The novel follows his many attempts to obtain justice from authorities with which he cannot communicate well. awakes one morning to find himself accused by a mysterious legal authority “Someone must have been spreading lies about Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” His crime is unnamed, one of which he knows nothing. On another level, he is illustrating the existential dilemma of man in the face of a godless, indifferent, and often hostile universe.
On one level, he is illustrating the helpless nature of the individual when in conflict against an established bureaucracy. This assessment of Divine justice by Kafka works on two levels. Most often critically interpreted as a search for Divine justice, Kafka’s The Trial, a fragmented and unfinished novel, appears to leave us with the same impression as the words above of Clarence Darrow. There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
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