Justice In America Kafka Analysis

Kafka illustrates in TheTrial how an unaccountable and inaccessible legal system ultimately destroys the notion of justice in society. Joseph K. is helpless in the novel. He is a victim of misinformation or rather no information. He lives in a society that apparently has a distorted sense of law and order. The elements which runs the social system are corrupted. In the hand of social system of the bourgeois society Joseph K. is a victim.
In the novel the court is powerful and it’s law is inaccessible to K. in shaping his desired destiny. The bourgeois society disturbs his way of life. It seems that the society is dominated by injustice. The novel is written in an episodic nature, with each chapter essentially a self contained anecdote of K’s …show more content…
Kafka illustrates the expansive grip of the justice system by having its influence apparent nearly everywhere K. travels. Joseph K. was given a trial that was not exactly speedy and hardly public. K.’s trial took place in a private apartment hidden away in a building while his series of trials lasted a year up until his death. In America, it is also a law that if you are charged or arrested for a crime you must be told what that crime is. Joseph K. was never told what he was being charged for, not even before he was executed.
Kafka describes the corrupt court as a life draining force, one that leaves strong members of society feeble and unable to defend themselves. Rather than working to promote social justice, the legal system in The Trial strives to stifle the freedom of the common people. It soon becomes apparent that the law’s power is far wider in scope than K initially anticipated. Like meeting a stranger on the street and suddenly seeing him everywhere, following his arrest, K begins to notice the law’s presence in every small crevice of …show more content…
is deluded like the accused man begging even the plea in the doorkeepers fur cap. He tries to influence the court officials, the Advocate, the painter, but there is always an obstacle. K. represents the entire mass of humanity, which is deluded in history. K. accuses the doorkeeper in the legend as obstructing the moral or divine order of the world. When K. is summoned to the court he visits the court because he wants to be freed of charges filed against him. But his dogmatism does not free him from his guilt and accusation.
Women play important role in K.’s attempt to free himself from his arrest. He is trying to desperately reach out and maintain his contact with existence as also escape from his loneliness. His relationship with Fraulein Burstner is casual. So his arrest take place in her strange room. He fights over the court attendant’s wife. He tries to assert his ego and manliness. But it is seen that he seems to be a man who cannot control his own life and is again the accused. His affair with Leni is not fully satisfying but he is the accused, uncertain of his