Kafka’s relationship with his belittling and some might say tyrannical father inspired the writer in creating the cruel and unforgiving power of the court of law as is depicted in The Trial. Kafka himself struggled with the feeling of powerlessness in the face of an arbitrary authority, not only on a political level, but a personal one as well. The aftermath of the war generated a schism between the previously revered monarchical and governmental institutions, and the young generation that now lived in a state of post war disillusionment and the feeling that life itself was void of rational meaning. Thus, the aforementioned sentiment of alienation and increased anxiety already ran rampant in the hearts of many individuals, for it was a shared premonition that the upcoming war would leave a trial of immense devastation in its wake. Although The Trial was published in 1925, a year after the writer’s death, Kafka wrote it in 1914 a year that was replete with political tension and instability.
The feeling of sinking dread and mistrust that Kafka imbues in his novel is reflected in the writer’s own personal and contextual surroundings. sink slowly but surely into an existential crisis as he comes to the realisation that all the individuals involved in the trial can offer him no plausible solution to his predicament, and is therefore left facing a phantom charge about which he can get no information, and that may quite possibly cost him his life.
at his inexplicable arrest, is worn thin as he meets corrupt and brainwashed characters that are at the constant mercy of the court. As the novel progresses, the initial scepticism, arguably a symbol for individuality and self- determination displayed by K. against a pervasive justice system that inflicts psychological torture onto any defendant. In a world where absurdity reigns, Kafka’s The Trial manifests the solitary struggle of Joseph K.
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