Revolutionary Sensibility

"'How can I go to the bank if I'm under arrest?'...'But in that case, even the notification of arrest scarcely seems necessary,' said K.,"(17).

As K. speaks to the inspector, he is unclear as to why he is allowed to go about his normal, everyday business affairs, when he is supposed to be "under arrest"; the very notification of arrest seems pointless if he K. is to face no consequences. The reader can relate to K. through this passage - due in part to Kafka's obscure writing fassion - because both the reader and K. face internal uncertainties. For example, society has created an image/understanding of the word "arrest" that is questioned in this passage. Both K. and the reader are forced to question the definition of arrest, seeing as how there are no evident consequences, and no answer as to why K. has been arrested. This scene compels the reader to question the very state of their own existence/position in society, and urges one to analyze how much control each of us really possess over our own lives. Are we all under a similar type of "arrest" in our positions in society?