Kafka’s protagonists constantly struggled with horrendous absurd judgments. In The Trial, Joseph K, the protagonist, is arrested but is not told why or what his charge is. He is rendered helpless in the face of countless judges, guards, attorneys, who hammer him down with bureaucratic procedure. His requests go unanswered, and his calls of help are left unheard, perhaps even by himself. Midway through the trial, K learns that his guilt is already assumed, and the bureaucracy, at its higher echelons, has secret rules and regulations and the identity of the bureaucrats is never revealed and that no one has been acquitted. The entire system seems like a black monolith of complex rules and regulations where Justice is a concept long forgotten.