1. Human institutions and how The Trial is a perfect example of how us as humans create our own demons. We create these institutions to manipulate people and gain an advantage over people and ultimately screw over the people of our own race.
2. How social creations like the bureaucracy can change who we are. In The Trial, K. Is initially described as being a self made, hard working, successful man. By the end of the book, he's completely worn down and isn't himself at all, a direct result of the phony bureaucracy in The Trial.
3. The effect of a totalitarian-like legal system and where our society as a whole may be headed. If/when our government develops into something like this in The Trial, what we we do as Americans? Rebel like our four fathers did or just allow the government to run us down like it did with K.?
1. I like your first topic the most because I feel that we have discussed it enough in class that we have a firm grasp on the theme, and you would be able to relate it to the story a lot. This is probably the best topic to write about because it is one of Kafka's most well known and comprehended viewpoints.
ReplyDelete2. Your second topic would also be a good one to write about because it is a very apparent theme in the story. There are many scenes in the book that demonstrate K.'s transformation and how the social creations in the book relate to it.
3. I feel that your third topic would be the hardest to write about seeing as that it is very hypothetical, and not as much based on facts and interpretations as the other two are.
I have to agree with vero that i think the first topic is probably the best one that you have here. The reason why I think this is that most of us have been reflecting on this theme in our blog posts through out the reading process. I also do not like the third one like vero.
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