BEFORE THE LAW by Franz Kafka - full unabridged audiobook short story

Before the Law (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel The Trial (German: Der Prozess), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the New Year's edition 1915 of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr, then in 1919 as part of the collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor). The Trial, however, was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death.

A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through a doorway. The doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says that it is possible. The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells the man that he accepts them "so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." The man did not attempt to murder or hurt the doorkeeper to gain the law, but waits at the door until he is about to die. Right before his death, he asks the doorkeeper why even though everyone seeks the law, no one else has come in all the years. The doorkeeper answers "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."

This fable shows how one's goals are achievable (by the gate being open) but often, represented by the path, are blocked by antagonistic people like the doorkeeper. It also represents how one must make an effort to reach that goal, as shown by the man not even making an effort to barge past the doorkeeper. When the man died, the gate closed and showed the impossibility of reaching that goal then. It shows how one must make an effort to reach their goals before it is too late. This fable was found in Franz Kafka's book The Trial and showed the absurdity of waiting for things to happen on their own.
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