Part 1 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 this sentence. The sentence leads the readers to a ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... Joseph may not be guilty in the sense of committing a sin, 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 descrip ....