Franz Kafka’s the trial is cryptically symbolic piece of existentialist writing. More so than that, the one constant overarching theme that keeps coming up in every review I’ve read is the word parable used over and over again. Despite the general themes of The Trial there are a series of key microcosm issues that come up in almost every chapter. These issue depending on the interpretation of these smaller issues could change the general analysis of the entire book. In my opinion. Nevertheless, the primary focus here will be to try to relate Kafka’s more generalized concreate themes (if any really exist), to the current social and cultural environment of 1920’s Eastern Europe. Before going any further, it should be qualified that the 1920’s
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This so called “anxiety” that swept over Europe like a plague was a response to radical changes the entire continent was facing in the aftermath of all the destruction World War I caused. It should be noted that even they there was extensive damage to the land and property of most of the nations of Europe, this quote speaks more to the religious and spiritual anxiety that most Europeans were suffering from at this time. This mostly stems from the terrible atrocities and massive loose of life Europeans witnessed during the time of the war. It seems as if at this point in time that all the killing and death of the War has taken a serious impact on the European mass psyche. At the time of the war people witness the deaths of those from the highest levels of power to the glorified mass graves of the common folk, referred to a trenches. Erich Maria Remarque once …show more content…
The themes of futility and anxiety are societal woes as old as enlighten thinking itself. Both Kafka and the rest of Europe was just the unfortunate victims of a time that provoked such nihilistic and necessary thinking. In The Trial and in the modernist movement, they were just working with the only thing they had. Their own lives. The fact that they were beings in a time despair and death allowed them to get a glimpse of something simple. Something so simple its unspeakable. A truth that allowed them to confront the human condition more so than those that haven’t experienced that level of misery. Maybe it wasn’t a truth, maybe it wasn’t anything more than a glimpse at
This so called “anxiety” that swept over Europe like a plague was a response to radical changes the entire continent was facing in the aftermath of all the destruction World War I caused. It should be noted that even they there was extensive damage to the land and property of most of the nations of Europe, this quote speaks more to the religious and spiritual anxiety that most Europeans were suffering from at this time. This mostly stems from the terrible atrocities and massive loose of life Europeans witnessed during the time of the war. It seems as if at this point in time that all the killing and death of the War has taken a serious impact on the European mass psyche. At the time of the war people witness the deaths of those from the highest levels of power to the glorified mass graves of the common folk, referred to a trenches. Erich Maria Remarque once …show more content…
The themes of futility and anxiety are societal woes as old as enlighten thinking itself. Both Kafka and the rest of Europe was just the unfortunate victims of a time that provoked such nihilistic and necessary thinking. In The Trial and in the modernist movement, they were just working with the only thing they had. Their own lives. The fact that they were beings in a time despair and death allowed them to get a glimpse of something simple. Something so simple its unspeakable. A truth that allowed them to confront the human condition more so than those that haven’t experienced that level of misery. Maybe it wasn’t a truth, maybe it wasn’t anything more than a glimpse at