The Role of Justice in Kafka's The Trial and Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Justice 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 essential...

The Trial by Franz Kafka is a remarkable study of the effects of a dictatorship upon freedoms granted in most democracies of today. Throughout the book, Josef K. experiences numerous violations of the principles of law that we take for granted in daily life. Kafka takes this idea of a corrupt and ...