![]() ![]() realizes “He was at their mercy” it is a surprise only to him. The proceedings are so quotidian for the proceeders that K.’s questioner says, “you’re under arrest, certainly, but that’s not meant to keep you from carrying on your profession.” By the time K. ![]() It is even out of the ordinary that someone like K. There may be nothing behind it, but there is no way to get beyond the façade and prove it. This creates a sense of arbitrariness of power but also makes the power feel like a façade. asks, “How can I be under arrest,” the answer is, “We don’t answer such questions” and is told to accept the situation. asks why and the man tells him, “We weren’t sent to tell you that….Proceedings are under way and you’ll learn everything in due course.” Kafka is setting up a world where the court is omnipotent and the populace powerless to even question its omnipotence. first encounters representatives of the court system in his room in a boarding house, K. The only way the reader learns about the intricacies of the world is through the friction against it created by K. ![]() It is accepted by all of the characters (except for K.). The only character who seems to find this out of the ordinary is K. In The Trial, Franz Kafka creates a world where the court system pervades ordinary life. ![]()
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