Thinking This Hard Hurts
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date published 08/05/2008
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SummaryJoseph K. is in trouble, and he doesn’t know why. Accused of a crime the details of which he is not privy to, his life becomes one impossible search for an acquittal. All his energies are throwing into determining his crime and a way to prove his innocence, but ultimately his efforts are in vain and he perishes at the hands of the court. The way in which K. leads his life during the trial determines what end he meets. A priest offers him some advice in the form of a parable, but K. fails to recognize the relevancy of it to his own life. The parable of the doorkeeper illustrates that meaning, in any sense of the term, must be drawn directly from an individual’s choices; there is no greater or ultimate meaning to any individual’s life, or anything in one’s life, beyond that which one gives it.
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- The parable of the doorkeeper itself is grounded in the existential tenets of man's free will.
- The man's acceptance of the doorkeeper's assertions and his choice to seek the law to begin with beg the question 'why?.
- K.'s greatest error is in his choice to indulge the court and his trial as salient.
- The semi-conscious state in which K. lives and operates is not one that is compatible with an existential view of the world.
- K.'s ultimate downfall occurs because he does not realize that the trial is only effective because he believes it is effective.
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