In the novel, The Trial, Franz Kafka uses his main character Joseph K to show the unimportance of the actual guilt of an individual. Although K is arrested and summoned by the courts, he is never informed of his crime, or questioned on his actual guilt. The trial that K is put through can be interpreted on two levels, the first of which is a literal interpretation of a criminal trial. The second level can be seen as the internal trial that he must go through to cope with his own anxiety. K and his trial are used to represent the eternal guilt of human beings in the eyes of a bureaucracy, and in this sense, K is guilty. However, the question of K's guilt is not important to Kafka's intention to show his idea that "the innocent and the guilty [are] both executed without distinction in the end." In Kafka's beliefs, the courts treat all men as if they were guil

Joseph is still uncertain of his crime but even more uncertain of his

guilty of in this particular chapter. From the beginning of the novel,

responsibility for his life continuing to deny his guilt. For this reason,

remaining last minutes before his death, Joseph refuses to take

Joseph never takes responsibility for himself or the trial. He appears to

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