Maryam M. ElhabashyMrs. Valerie WatsonEnglish 9 GT11 April 2014Research PaperKafka's Trial is recognized both as a psychological thriller and as one of the most complex religious allusions ever published. Published in 1925, The Trial is classified as both an absurdist and psychological novel. The dominant theme of the Trial concerns the evident struggle to establish one's innocence. Franz Kafka's The Trial is not autobiographical; and includes the literary elements of symbolism, characterization, and themes; and received wide and thorough criticism. The Trial is a parable written in third-person (limited omniscient) describing the trials of a man trying to establish his innocence for a crime he did not commit. The entire book revolves around one main character, Josef K., an ambitious and well-reputed young banker who is arrested without having committed any crime. The story begins with his arrest. He is indignant and defiant towards everything the officers and inspector tell him. For the next year, Josef K. does everything in his power to win the surreal case against him. The court is impassive and indifferent to K.'s testimony, and his friends abandon him. The narrator captures K.'s paralyzing defiance against the unjustifiable and senseless battles waged against him by the court, the law and society. He is ultimately overcome by his own doubts as he attempts to prove his innocence within the framework of a law he admits his captors did not know. The novel is less about the struggle between K. and his unjustified captors and more about the struggle between K. and himself. He finally gives up and is stabbed to death the night before his thirty-first birthday (Kafka 1...... middle of paper...... (Muir)” However, there is no such thing as a perfect writer If there was a perfect book, there would have been no criticism directed at it. The Trial, like all other works of human literature, has flaws, many of which have also been analyzed by numerous critics as critics ridicule Kafka for his limits on what the reader has knowledge of reader can answer is never confirmed, and that this vague, open-ended writing style makes The Trial too vague in every way (McIntosh-Byrd). It is not just critics whose opinions have been questioned, philosophers who they see in The experimentation with a new realm of philosophy has also been contradicted.