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 Franz Kafka 'The Trial' is, on the surface, the story of a man who works at a bank, Josef K., who wakes up one day to find that he is being charged on an unspecified charge. The story relates his court case, his attempts to prove his innocence, and his eventual death. K. i...