An Unfortunate Insight

In Franz Kafka's The Trial, the courts seem to take a very interesting role.  Throughout the book, K. has been completely unaware of his supposed offense.  The courts and everyone related to them have been very unhelpful.  They usually tell him that it is better to simply wait and that nothing can be done at that particular point.  The court seems to be an overbearing figure that cannot be challenged.  A man K. encounters says "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary," (Kafka, 159).  The court system has so much control that nobody seems to be able to even go against it or questioning it.  It operates without actually answering to anyone who is higher up.  Many people lower in the courts don't even understand how they work.  This oppressive court could symbolize the overbearing government that was in effect when this book was written.  Kafka could have been saying that the government should be more accessible, instead of focused on controlling the people.