The Trial - Kafka

So why the fuck was he executed in the end?

i can't tell you if you won't co-operate. it's out of my hands.

My perspective is that it was an ultimate libidinal payment.
Kafka was being torn about by his own feelings of guilt for his experience of estrangement and the burden of labour expected by him throughout his life as a young male. Its not so much the execution itself that mattered but the experience of an impending execution that overshadowed him.

LIKE A DOG!
>heh, nuthin personnel kid

that last line is genius.

Because he did nothing to stop it.

My interpretation is that Josef K is a Messianic figure. In Jewish Thought there is a potential Messiah born every generation, but they all fail because of some flaw, In Josef K's case it was passivity.

Remember the law allegory? Why didn't the character in the story at least try to enter instead of just sitting outside like he was told?

Passive in what sense though?
Its not as if he was not very independent and active throughout the novel.

Court orders.

well thats just silly

k. is anything but passive. in fact his action is about all that defines him. his willingness to act despite his complete ignorance of the case.

imo the novel is about the interaction of equals in a society. it begins with slander, slander leads to death. it is about the everyman in society sold out by his fellow everyman. the courts only prosecute. it doesn't matter whta he is guilty of because he has been labeled as guilty. notice most of the novel is about interpersonal communication and power relations between k. and his equals.

But he wasn't executed by the law. Why would he ran away from the police then?

>But he wasn't executed by the law.

I'm fairly certain he was executed by the same organization as the trial, whether you want to call that the Law or not