Before_The_Law

Before The Law In Franz Kafka’s "Before the Law", a man from the country seeks admission to the Law. He can see through the open door into the house of the Law but the doorkeeper refuses him entry-and warns him that this is just the first of many doors and doorkeepers, each more forbidding and terrifying than the last. But the man is convinced that his salvation lay in the Law and year after year he comes to the door, asking and answering questions, looking for permission to enter. He even tries to bribe and flatter his way in. The doorkeeper takes the bribes but only so that the man will not think he has neglected anything. He is still refused entry. Finally, as the man lay dying, he sees a radiance streaming from the gateway to the Law. He thinks of a question he has never asked, and calls the doorkeeper over. Why in all these years has no one else come to this gate' The doorkeeper’s answer, "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going law, man, very, mouse’s, mouse, doorkeeper, year, town, though, think, one, lay, gate, else, door, death, animals, actions, years, wrongful, worthless, woke, witnessing, way, warns, wandering, undoubtedly, tries, traditionally, through, thinks, terrifying, talks, takes, swiftly