Outline

Thesis: In The Trial, a phony bureaucracy under an unnamed society of men control and ultimately wear down K. into a completely different person. The idea that social creations like a fake bureaucracy are created to manipulate people ultimately can change who we are at our core existence.

Outline: I. Introduction
                 a. Just a regular introduction, my thesis, and a tease of what I'm going to write about in regards to K.'s transformation as a person in The Trial.
II. The man K. was before the arrest
                 a. In the beginning of the novel, K. is described as being self-made, elaborate on that in the paper
                 b. Hardworking
                 c. Persistent in achieving his goals
III. The man K. was after the arrest
                 a. Show how each of the three letters in the previous paragraph are completely changed in K. towards the end of the book:
                          i. K. gets obsessed with his trial, and cannot focus properly on work
                         ii. K. hires someone else to work on his Trial for him, rather than putting in the work to make it right. 
                        iii. K. gets tired of his trial going absolutely nowhere, and finally decides to fire his lawyer, but is so run down by the whole process that he actually does an even worse job, leading to his inevitable death. 
IV. Conclusion
                 a. Brief overview of everything I spoke about
                 b. Current examples of our government and how it can warp our perceptions/actions, and how it can change us completely.