This seems to make a lot of sense in the traditional sense of law, but in Kafka’s Law that is not the case. To the guards, K.’s lack of knowledge affirms their right to arrest him. His lack of knowledge of the Law is proof in their eyes that he has no ground to stand on when claiming innocence; it is interesting that they don’t offer an explanation as to what made him guilty. It reminds me of something you often hear regarding a bureaucracy in which only pertinent information is handed down to the “lowly employees” at the bottom and everything else is “above their pay-grade”. The court in this way seems more like a separate governmental entity rather than a judicial body, which would be expected when comparing it to contemporary
This seems to make a lot of sense in the traditional sense of law, but in Kafka’s Law that is not the case. To the guards, K.’s lack of knowledge affirms their right to arrest him. His lack of knowledge of the Law is proof in their eyes that he has no ground to stand on when claiming innocence; it is interesting that they don’t offer an explanation as to what made him guilty. It reminds me of something you often hear regarding a bureaucracy in which only pertinent information is handed down to the “lowly employees” at the bottom and everything else is “above their pay-grade”. The court in this way seems more like a separate governmental entity rather than a judicial body, which would be expected when comparing it to contemporary