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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis deals with the process of the main character?s becoming a
fatalist as seen in Franz Kafka?s The Trial. As the tool to help me conduct the
analysis, I use the theory of fatalism exercising its elements namely powerlessness
and submissiveness. In general, fatalism is a doctrine, a system of philosophy, or a
belief that says everything is determined by fate. Basically, the elements explain
the stages or process man has to experience in living his destiny. This situation
happens to Joseph K. who cannot free himself from the Court. First of all, the
Court tries to make him realize that he is powerless through the work of its
emissaries and intermediaries. Despite the pressures he gets from the Court, K. at
first, tries to defend himself and struggle to win the case by searching for help.
Nevertheless, K.?s efforts always meet a dead end and his case gets even worse.
Therefore, despite all his attempts to defend himself, K. is forced to realize that he
is powerless against the Court. In the end, it finally dawns on him that he cannot
escape his destiny, and, thus, submits himself entirely into the hands of the Court.
In this stage, K. totally becomes submissive in facing the Court until he is killed
`like a dog?.