After finishing the first chapter
of The Trial I am left with many unanswered questions. Why is K. under arrest?
Why can he still go on with his daily life even though he is under arrest? And
who exactly is placing him under arrest? The main protagonist K. also asks
these questions but never receives an answer, which leaves him as confused as
the reader. I thought that the narration of the novel has a sort of “dream-like”
quality. In dreams many random things happen with no exact meaning or linear
sequence, which seems to be similar to the narration in this book. First, K.
awakes to two men who just enter his bedroom with out saying who they work for.
Then they place him under arrest for apparently a reason they don’t even know
them selves and therefore can’t tell K. Already this seems absurd but then they
take him to their supervisor and instead of going to a police station or an
office they enter his neighbors room and there the supervisor has set up a sort
of office. This seems completely random and bizarre because if he is a
supervisor one would think he would have an office but instead he is sitting in
a lady’s room who also has no idea they’re there. Then K. doesn’t even realize
that three men he works with are in the room as well. This often happens in
dreams when random things pop up out of nowhere with no apparent cause. And
then the strangest thing of all is that they just let him go even though he is
apparently “under arrest”. All the events that happen that day seem very absurd
and random. This sort of confusion in the novel only makes it more exciting
read and leaves me wanting to figure out the ending.
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