GERM 1027 Dalhousie University The Trial by Frank Kafka Thesis Statement

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Thesis statement Due Date: Friday, March 27. Essay Due Date: Monday, April 5. Length: approximately 1,500 words and possible essay themes: Justice and Injustice, Innocence and Guilt, Self-esteem and Self-abasement, The Labyrinthine, The Nature of Power and Authority, The Individual and the Collective, Meaning and Absurdity, The Trial and the Modern World. Essay should have an introductory paragraph that closes with a proper and specific thesis statement, paragraphs organized around topics that reinforce your thesis, and a strong concluding paragraph, also use at least four critical resources.

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The Trial: Thesis Statement
Frank Kafka’s, “The Trial” is a dizzying representation of a man’s experience with a
fictional legal system. From the moment in which the news of his arrest is sprung on him and
throughout his entire legal process, the events that characterize K’s trial will feel alien to most
readers, as they do not resemble any justice system currently in existence. However, despite the
notable contrasts between the legal world that Kafka presents in “The Trial” and the one
individuals have come to known in the real world, there are some thematic parallels that can be
found between his presentation of this societal institution and its reality. In fact, it is possible to
find in the impossibly organized system that Kafka offers glimpses of actual problems within the
legal system, albeit, in a manner that allows for literary expression. Specifically, one can say that,
throughout Frank Kafka’s, “The Trial”, many of the perceived faults with the ideation and
execution of justice are presented. In the ambiguity that the accused encounters in the chargers and
the procedure to clear them, the constant obstacles that the bureaucracy places before him, and the
inability to approach a consistent body of knowledge about this system, Kafka presents the Law
as a system that is built upon arbitrariness rather than justice. In short, the entire novel can be read
as a rather subtle criticism to a Justice system that offers persecution rather than justice.
One of the most important elements of Kafka’s “The Trial” is the atmosphere of ambiguity
upon which the legal issues that follows the main character – of whom not many details are known,
besides his name, his employment, and some traces of his family – and his attempts to resolve
them. When he is arrested, for instance, the individuals who go to his apartment are completely
incapable of giving him any details of the charges that are being filed against him. On the contrary,
they simply tell him that, because they are low-ranking officers, they do not possess any
information about the...


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