Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Trial and The Parable of the Doorkeeper

First of all, I have to say Kafka's work is really abstract and hard to understand.As I was watching the movie, I could not really get the idea of the story.

The Trail is one of Kafka's best-known works. Basicly, it tells a story of the main character Josef K who gets arrested after waking up in the morning. However,he does not even know what his crime is, and finally get executed by two people late at night.

As for the parable of the doorkeeper,in my opinion,it is just the forshadow of the death of Josef K.The doorkeeper does not let Josef go though the door, and tells him that there would be more and more doors with doorkeepers if Josef enters in the door now.As the doorkeeper says, it implies Josef K will never win and get rid of the trial, and in the end, he has to face the destiny of death.


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