This week’s installment is the final installment of The
Trial by Franz Kafka. Honestly, I am happy as hell that we are done with
this book. Because I really do not enjoy reading Kafka. I truly do like the
theories and the ideas that Kafka brings up, and for the most part I agree with
him too. But his stories in my eyes are awful stories. Neither the less, the
last installment of The Trial began with the priest’s story of the guard
to The Law. I interpreted the law to be heaven, the guard to be gatekeeper for
heaven, and the man being a soul stuck in purgatory. The man was stuck in
purgatory for all time, and no man could “pass judgment upon him”. He would
have to wait for the judgment of some higher power. Ironically, the story shows
the religion, failing the man. With the man giving his life in a blind trust to
getting into heaven, heaven had failed him by never giving him the admittance,
which he sought. Later on in K.’s conversation with the priest, the priest says
“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as
necessary”. I believe that this quote goes back to the Dostoyevsky idea of
truth. I see that you do not need to accept that two plus two equals four as
truth; however, you must accept it as necessary for progress. You see if we cannot
use two plus two equals four, than we can not advance as a intelligent life
form. We would not be able to create anything. Later on in the story, K. says, “The
only thing I can do now.” Which employs there is nothing left for him to do. I
believe that it is at this point in which K. accepts death. And just after this
he has his existential crises realizing that he does not want to die. That he regrets
wanting the case to be over before as soon as it started, but now that it is
over he wants it to start again. In the end, (spoiler alert) K. is executed. I
truly believe that K. wanted this because “Death gotta be easy, ‘cause life is
hard. It’ll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scared.” (50 cent)
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