The Trial - Franz Kafka....................................Diego Vicentini - Scott Kossman - Jonathan Jordan
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Chapter 3
After K. almost gets in a fight with the student, and is forced to let go of him due to the command of the usher's wife. In K.'s disappointment, the narrator says, "Of course there was no reason to let that worry him, he had suffered defeat only because he had sought to do battle."(Kafka 64) Our pages are all different so you might not find the quote, but I feel like the narrator is telling us that K. will lose his final battle. K. will try and battle with the judges to avoid any punishment, but as a result he will end up defeated. What do you guys think is going to happen to K.?
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I think the quote reassures that the government seems to be completely against K, in every way. Even though K had done nothing to the student, the student "sought to do battle". Thus, demonstrating the central theme of the institutions attempt to control individuals.
ReplyDeleteI think both of you have something right. The quote says he was only defeated because he chose to fight. This brings me back to the stranger and KAFKA the movie. In KAFKA, the main character tried ti fight against the control, but all the forces were against him and the institutions proved to be overpowering, which is why he was defeated in the end. On the other hand, in the stranger, the character chose not to fight against the institutions, and this was exactly why he won. He chose not to fight. He did not resist arrest and did not fight for his own trial. In the end, He lived his life as he please controlled by no one, which ironically gave the story a happy ending.
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