Intro and first body paragraph

In Kafka's novel, 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. In the beginning of the novel, Joseph K. is described as being a self made, hard working, and independent young man with a great deal of potential within himself. Kafka made K. in the beginning of the novel to be perfectly autonomous and perfectly fine with himself. He was described as being happy with himself, until he got arrested for no named reason. After that day, the decline in not only the morale but also the spirit of K. began. 

K.'s transformation into the man he died as started as a completely different person. He did not rely on anyone, only himself. K. was a successful banker in an industry that fed solely on competition, another indicator of the great mental condition that K. was in before his arrest. He was described as being happy with himself, until he got arrested for no named reason. K. even is seen as describing the men who arrested him as "underlings" to him. He viewed the world around him as sub-par to him, and ideal present in some of the most successful people today. In the first chapter, during K.'s arrest, he tries to go above and beyond and try and look into why he is being arrested. He sneaks around and brainstorms ways as to why he would have gotten arrested, without deciding to give up. These ideals are not present in K. after the arrest, he just let's everything sort of play out, even if it's for the worst. K. transforms into a pragmatic person with his arrest. He stops the clawing and scratching that got him to the top of his food chain of his bank, and ultimately allows for his "trial" to overrun and transform him into that pragmatic version of himself. K. is demanding in the first scenes of the novel, and is seen as not wanting to back down from his territory. If he wanted something, he went out and did everything in his power to retrieve that want, something completely different about himself at the end. It's almost as if K. becomes an old man towards the end of the novel. After the day of his arrest, the decline in not only the morale but also the spirit of K. began.