All works by Franz Kafka can be directly linked in a place with his life, including the novel "The Trial". He and the people with whom he do at the time when he wrote the novel, had to dive into this work under other names. This biographical reference can be proved on the basis of the novel. It seem in Kafka's manuscript of the abbreviations "K" for Josef K., "FB" for Fraulein Burstner. These initials also apply to Kafka and Felice Bauer.
There are also passages that can be put in a direct relationship with Kafka. In the novel, K. is killed on the eve of his thirty-first birthday. On the eve of Kafka's thirty-first birthday, he decides to go to Berlin to release the engagement with Felice. Kafka put so this event (broken engagement) equal to an execution.
also his father-son conflict Kafka was trying to accomplish in this work. Kafka's father was a power figure (tall, strong, broad), Kafka (thin, weak, narrow) faced. The process intensifies the insight into the institutionalization of the father principle, through the presentation of an abstract instance of the rule and the judge. Kafka's father appears as a chief judge, as a "last resort", which indicates the process world.
addition to the outstanding father figures appear too many mother-figures or replacement, such as the Josef K. 's landlady, Mrs. Grubach, reminiscent of their sensitivity and care of Kafka's mother.
The suffering an inexplicable blame, leaving no way is indicative of the theme of the novel process and can be traced back to events in Kafka's childhood. Kafka was often punished by his father, without that he had a legitimate reason for it. Thus Kafka was locked out as a boy in the night on the balcony, he asked his father by only a glass of water. Parallels to Joseph K. can be drawn without much trouble, as well as Josef K. never heard a reason for his arrest or conviction.
also the subject of the defamatory conduct that Kafka learned from a cook who threatened him to tell the teachers are supposedly bad behavior, even though he had done nothing wrong hand, Kafka at the beginning of the process, as Josef K . a defamation suspected because he was arrested, "though he would have done something wrong." [5]
Even Kafka's insurmountable feeling of guilt that he had because he had failed in marriage and Familiengündung is reflected also in Josef K.. Just as Kafka and Josef K. is incapable relationship. This is illustrated in the increasingly re-emerging "relations" with women. Most women in the "process" to which Josef K. investigated compounds have, in his eyes a whore character. There are only a few female characters that do not meet this character, such as Fraulein Burstner, but even with her he could not build a lasting relationship.
also plays Kafka's geographical situation in this work a major role. Kafka spent most of his life in Prague. These impressions of the city are reflected in the process.
characteristic of Prague's cityscape, the contrast of height and depth, symbolized by the castle and St. Vitus Cathedral hochgelegenem to low-lying town. In the process of Dom plays as a central meeting place for Josef K. is crucial. The cathedral is the scene of his futile search for meaning. The buildings belonging to Josef K's everyday world, stand in the shadow of the cathedral.
The contrast between the height and depth was also reflected at that time in the social stratification and power relations. Here, too, appear to parallel the text. Josef K. device in search of the court in unknown areas, in working-class area, related to their miserable daily reality in contrast to his usual middle-level life-world.
may also have influenced the beginning of World War II, because of his participation Kafka indispensability spared in the insurance agency was to blame issue indirectly. Sun comes up in hindsight, the question of whether "The Trial" with the motives of unexpected arrests, beatings secret commands, uncontrollable authority decisions and brutal killings can also refer to the later Nazi terror.
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