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He had no wish at all to humiliate himself before the committee by being too punctual Too much sincerity is a weakness of character. A man stood below it calling out instructions to direct the work being done In the end he decided to climb up the stairs, his thoughts playing on something that he remembered the policeman, Willem, saying to him; that the court is attracted by the guilt, from which it followed that the courtroom must be on the stairway that K.

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But they all agreed on one thing: charges are not brought lightly, and when the court does bring charges it is firmly convinced of the guilt of the accused and can only be persuaded to change its mind with difficulty.

In this passage, Titorelli attempts to help K. His statement speaks to the inscrutability of the court, because even though he should be party to classified information, he has heard conflicting information about how the court operates.

The only agreed-upon piece of information is that the court members presume the guilt of defendants and are unyielding in their opinions, which is an inversion of the standard of justice that presumes a person's innocence until they are proven guilty. In this passage, Titorelli explains to K.

Titorelli suggests it isn't such a terrible option, even though it would mean the case would dominate K. But the hands of one of the men were placed on K. As his sight faded, K. It seemed as if his shame would live on after him. In the novel's final paragraph, K. His final words—"Like a dog! The narrator comments that the shame K.

The Question and Answer section for The Trial is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Explain the possible Biblical symbolism of what K. The Odyssey. He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers.

But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice. It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening.

That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day. Quote of the day Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. Franz Kafka Creative Commons. Featured Authors. Predictions that didn't happen. If it's on the Internet it must be true. Picture Quotes. Philip James Bailey. Eleanor Roosevelt.

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