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While K. is rooted in ordinary existence he is fighting the courts
against a timeless, immeasurable background. He does not want
to acknowledge the new significance. On his thirteenth birthday,
the threshold of middle age, his fundamental existence has
validity. He is now faced with a deep disappointment, a sudden
fear throwing his fragmented existence out of control. The
"something" that threatens is the court. The individual's
consciousness of reality is relaxed has lost its grip on appearance
with the threatening description of the court. The world seems to
be broken into fragments, the courts, individual lives; women
lead their own lives. There is no convergence of interests and
attitudes. Bleak and dreary, out of these fragments, the new
reality, which emerges, is unfamiliar and threatening intruding
on the ego in new forms. K.'s ego seems to be driven against the
wall, surrounded by something stronger than it is.
The novel does not dwell in consciousness of divinity, but from
an unrest which is ever present written the worlds limits. Death
seems to be incomprehensible and life seems to be relentlessly
set opposed to it, for K. is still in the process of fighting any
accusation or condemnation against the court, which is the
monolith. The court does not represent wholly God's claim on
man. This is the meaning within it at the symbolic level. It is
through K.'s behavior, his painful anxiety and his conflict, his
fears and his frivolous existence that we come to know about it.
In the person of the advocate it is seem whether it is right to
justify the self on an intellectual place while the levels of
eventuality or Destiny guide the course of the trial.
It is difficult to conduct like through the spirit as well. Through
the advocate the human spirit seems to be ambiguous though it is
a genuine guidance for living. The high office that he holds
dictates a moralistic code of conducting business.
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