Chapter 33 A Contest of Two Wills (Part 1)

After reading this book, we fall into a deep confusion, and we face the biggest question: what is the will of law?Does the law want K to die or to live?The ending of the story has already shown this will, that is to say, K should die, as K has always understood.However, in the long process, K has encountered so many temptations, so many hopes, and so many gaps to break through, all of which are refuting the above-mentioned single conclusion; , to live to experience sin, not just for the final punishment, as K has been subconsciously feeling.As soon as the contradiction of the will of the law emerges, the eternal contest begins; and it is precisely because it is a contradiction that the background becomes unfathomable; people can pursue and inquire, but they cannot draw conclusions from one side. It is a dynamic force, composed of two opposing forces, and moved forward by the wrestling and collision of these two forces.In terms of form, K died in the end. It seems that death can better reflect the will of the law, but the thinking left to the readers is the thinking about living.Otherwise why write this story?

The contradictory will of Fa is the embodiment of K’s contradictory will. This double will makes him yearn for the pure state while pursuing worldly pleasures. He always stands between the two worlds, and it is difficult to say definitively Which side does he love more?Strict rationality drove him to death, and evil desires made him seize the time to live, yearning and yearning like this, exhausting his life in the depravity, and approaching the true purity step by step.What the poet wants to describe is not the real purity (which cannot be described), but the pure imagination, which can only be realized in the most impure life activities.In this way, every impulse to life becomes approaching to death, and absolute distinction becomes impossible, but we can still distinguish two opposite legal wills from K’s body in the whole event.

Carefully appreciating K's spiritual journey, we can't help but feel that there are always two Ks making judgments on the same thing.One is the logical and rational K, who wants to find out the truth of things, improve his situation, and verify and regulate his life; the other is the hidden and irrational K, who challenges Getting into trouble, letting desires overflow, thus trampling on those rules of one's own, unknowingly making oneself sinful.Because of this split, the internal trial was launched, and the superficial trial of Department D was actually a projection of the internal trial.In this protracted battle of internal friction, there is no conclusion as to who will win and who will lose.Judging from the ending, it seems that the contradiction intensified in the end, and the understanding of life defeated life itself.But the ending is just what the story needs to tell.

With the need for an internal audit, being on trial becomes a truly serious matter.Within the scope of the law, there is nowhere for people to escape, even suicide is impossible. The only thing people can do is to live and reflect; any behavior that deviates from the purpose and distracts the attention is not allowed by the law.The law is everywhere, but the law is abstract and empty; it must be realized and enriched by the criminal; guilt.The law is high, unified and rigorous; the law also penetrates into the people.B, matching people's desires with gaps.This duality is also the duality of human nature.In the long process of entanglement and struggle, the two Ks constantly and critically realize their views—a symbol of the essence of human beings.