Explain the possible Biblical symbolism of what K. had for breakfast.

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In Kafka’s stories, the characters are often shown to be guilty of something and the punishments are in inverse proportion to the sin. In The Trial, the protagonist Josef K., psychologically and philosophically, tries desperately to discover the nature of his guilt. There are, in simplistic terms, two streams running through the book, but going in opposite directions. One is the attempt by the court to convince Joseph K. of his guilt. The court does this by attempting to make inroads into Joseph K.’s conscience. Another is to make him realize his guilt, and atone for it. On the other hand, he attempts to get right into the court, and by doing so, reach some degree of understanding about the nature of his guilt. It is as if both are desperately pursuing each other but never meet.

The novel begins on the morning of the protagonist's thirtieth birthday, a morning on which he awakens to the conviction that he has been "traduced" and "arrested" without having done anything wrong. In the one year, between the arrest of Joseph K. and his death, are interposed his futile attempts to conquer the legal maze in which he becomes entrapped.

In the second chapter of the novel, when Joseph K. is summoned to the court, he is unable to have his breakfast except one apple: “A fine apple which he had laid out the night before and two glasses of fine brandy for his breakfast.” This episode reminds us of the original sin of man which resulted in his expulsion from the heavenly Garden of Eden and gave rise to a sense of guilt in man. This sense of guilt does not come to us from the world of senses, but from the spiritual world which embraces the world of senses as the Evil. On the other hand, the world of senses is the world of the consciousness which has been trapped by the world of unconsciousness which Kafka has interpreted as the spiritual one.