The Role of Justice in Kafka's The Trial
The Role of Justice in Kafka's The Trial and Hardy's Tess of the d'UrbervillesJustice is distant, elusive, and sometimes all together absent in both Franz Kafka's The Trial and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Both of the protagonists are essentially put on trial in their novel, metaphorically and literally. Justice is represented in the novels by a multitude of forms ranging from God and nature in Tess to the Judges that preside in Kafka's darkened attics. Hardy ends Tess of the d'Urbervilles with: " 'Justice' was done and the President of the Immortals...had ended his sport with Tess."(Hardy, p 403) This statement is wrought with irony due to the utter injustice of the heroine's death. The President of the Immortals can be interpreted as God who toys with the lives of the mortals. Hardy's view of God's justice is a harsh one. The divine is seen as a Roman-like deity who governs his subjects lives without compassion. It is also clear that this is a parody of God's justice, that he does not truly exist. Through Tess of the d'Urbervilles the characters discuss their disbelief in not just a benevolent God but any God. That disbelief makes the statement even more ironic because this nonexistent God
His President of the Immortals is The Law with all its complexities and contradictions. Tess of the d'Urbervilles reaches the conclusion that God is dead, and The Trial picks up that conclusion and moves past it into the dark and winding unkown. (Hardy, 401) Each ending encompasses the vision that the author had for the work. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? Was it one person only? Or was it mankind?. and Tess experience the outcome of the novel is integral to their novels central theme. But all the while she was making a distinction where there was no difference. any resolution even death is at first inviting. The lack of justice in Tess of the d'Urbervilles kills only the heroine's body not her enduring spirit. is consumed with the trial, with his supposed innocence and the need to delve into the truth and discover what exactly he is being tried for. In the end both go to there fate almost willingly. as well as the reader, his trial and its outcome seem to be unfair, but that unfairness does not essentially equate with injustice. Life with his love is Tess' dream and this would surly be recompense for her past hardships but it becomes the most horrific thing she has to endure. But then you would require neither my help nor help from anyone"( Kafka, 153) If the painter's statements were to be taken as truth then K.
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