Josef K., the protagonist in Kafka's The Trial. It is only his first name is known, the last name is not written out in full. The abbreviated name is reminiscent of a newspaper report on a criminal. He is anonymous, it could be to anyone.
He is obviously very busy working and happy career, almost as a "workaholic" classified. Joseph is chief clerk at a bank, so it has a high position and serves large extent, the rights. First, the process gets in the way and obviously has a negative impact on his career.
His fixation on the work but also leaves a personal mark, or may have been caused by its indiscriminate social life first. He apparently has no hobbies, and despite his high position only a small apartment in a pension. Personal relationships he has hardly any. So it seems that almost everyone he meets, any contacts with the court - only he himself has none. Friends are also not mentioned. Also, a solid partner he did not. Instead, a simple waitress his lover, who they trade but willing to Leni as soon as he gets the chance.
Just as with non-relatives, no or maintain only superficial relationships, so his relationship with his own family is shattered. His father is already dead, his mother, he has hardly any contact. The visit of the uncle scared him. Nevertheless, there appear to be in the family no particular dislike for him. Sun mentioned the uncle that Josef by his professional success brings honor to the family. The visit of the uncle will obviously not take place for reasons of affection, but only because he has heard from Joseph's criminal and feared that Joseph could get through this process, shame on the family. It is therefore strictly selfish motives that guide the uncle. Is therefore perhaps the relationship the family excited? Interested in this only for Joseph's career success, but not for his feelings? (This would be the parallels Kafka mite fit, see below in the characterization.)
Despite his commercial success Josef acts accordingly, little or not integrated into society. His relationships are short and superficial. The contact with women is characterized by the idea to be primarily physical.
Josef K. is arrested on the morning of his thirty birthday. The prosecution is never mentioned. Sometimes you can detect guilt for Joseph. So he is shortly before his execution, the conviction that he actually would have rammed the knife in the stomach itself. What he feels guilty but that can not learn as well.
Initially, Josef the process seriously. Over time, the setting changes but, although he modified this to the outside trying to hide. It is obvious that the process it mentally strong with it. Once he breaks in the vicinity of the firms together, a second time he is about. His concentration at work leaves much to with the time, his fatigue increased. At least for some time, he admits to this change but even a non-sliding and the symptoms of physical discomfort. May one can conclude that he has trouble interpreting the signals of his own body.
The initial lack of interest leads straight into a fixation on the court. This does, however, already apparent in the early stages. Thus the second summons to appear in court have not been conducted by phone - Joseph is gone voluntarily, without any prompts. Later this fixation more evident when the prison chaplain says:
Joseph had apparently never have to go to court - he's always gone voluntarily.
The similarities in behavior between Joseph and the man from the doorkeeper legend are so striking. The "man from the country" from the doorkeeper legend had always had the freedom to move away from the door. Instead, he has, however, focused only on the door and it is ruined.
One day before his 31st Birthday Josef K. is picked up by two guards and a quarry, where he will be executed.
In the ignorance of his own feelings, a lack of social relations in which many can work in the fixation on the court and in the frequently mentioned suicidal thoughts you detect a certain tendency to self-destructive behavior. One can speculate that did not pronounce the court from the death sentence of Joseph, but he has insisted through his behavior the death sentence almost (striking is at this point, that the death sentence is not the court itself heard - it is simply one day picked up).
are clearly visible the parallels between Joseph K. and Kafka. This begins the last name that both times with "K" can be abbreviated. Even the first name is always the same length (Josef - Franz). Just as Josef Franz Kafka also deals extensively with the law, because he is a lawyer and his relationship to the family is shattered. Both people in general suffer from a lack of social relationships and both people are 30 years old (Joseph, at least initially).
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