A Battle with Invisible Enemies in Kafka's The Trail A sudden intrusion disrupts Joseph's peaceful life and brings him into a battle between life and death. Unlike the usual war, Joseph is fighting enemies who cannot be seen nor can they react. Starting with arrest and ending with an execution, what the main character judges is not only invisible power but also decadent law.i[i] One of the main ideas, “A Battle with Invisible Enemies,” in The Trail it could be applied to Joseph's situation just as it applies to the theme of fiction. Secondly, the main character's action in the novel also brings out the idea of ​​his struggle. The theme also appears in the dialogue between Joseph K. and the inspector. Furthermore, the structure is under the influence of the idea. Finally, variations of the idea show some profound implications of human society. For Joseph K., the situation itself is a mystery. This is the story of a normal person suffering from absurd circumstances. One fine morning a stranger arrested K. without any reason. He suggests that “The opening of The Trail conveys a public intrusion into the private sphere as men, who appear to be state officials but also turn out to be associated with his workplace, enter a citizen's bedroom and arrest him.”ii [ii] And it's just the beginning of a series of disasters. As Joseph tries to figure out what's really happening, he only receives this response: "We're not allowed to tell you." (p. 6) In the later parts of The Trail, K. is treated as a suspect and investigated by an inspector. However, the entire arrest and investigation process appears to be not only illegal but also arbitrary and absurd. Also in the K. sentence is ex...... half of the paper ......70.vii[vii] Speirs and Sandberg, 87.viii[viii] Stanley Corngold, Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form . (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988) 248.ix[ix] Speirs and Sandberg, 97.Works CitedBloom, Harold, ed. Modern critical visions: Franz Kafka. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Boa, Elizabeth. Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in Letters and Fiction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Corngold, Stanley. Franz Kafka: The necessity of form. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.Emerich, Wilhelm. Franz Kafka: a critical study of his writing. New York: Ungar Publishing, 1968.Hayman, Ronald. Kafka: a biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.Lawson, Richard H.. Franz Kafka. New York: Ungar, 1987. Speirs, Ronald, and Sandberg, Beatrice. Macmillan's Modern Novelists: Franz Kafka. London: Macmillan Press, 1997.