President of the Immortals is The Law with all its complexities and contradictions. It is difficult to determine whether K. actually receives a form of justice. To K. as well as the reader, his trial and its outcome seem to be unfair, but that unfairness does not essentially equate with injustice. The Law's sport with K. is the trial itself. K. is tortured with the procedures of the law especially that there is no revelation of the charges or evidence against him. K. 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.
             K., like Tess, is put to death by the court. Hardy makes it clear that justice was not done for Tess, but the issue of justice for K. is clouded. To decide if K.'s death or even just his conviction is just one must know the intricacies of the trial and the evidence, and at least one must know the charge. The Court painter tells K.:
             "The only deciding factor seems to be the
             innocence of the accused. Since you are
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