Thus, repentance and sometimes punishment is required to cleanse of those sins. The apparatus is the way those on the penal colony cleanse their sins, because the inhabitants of the penal colony, like the inhabitants of the world, are already guilty. The new inhabitants, or those who follow the New Commandant, reject the Old Commandant’s teachings and find the apparatus unjust, much like progressive society seems to reject traditional religious teachings. These inhabitants are of the type of people that threaten to eat others. Kafka seems to be saying that those who reject religion degrade to animals and resort to primitive, unconstrained
Thus, repentance and sometimes punishment is required to cleanse of those sins. The apparatus is the way those on the penal colony cleanse their sins, because the inhabitants of the penal colony, like the inhabitants of the world, are already guilty. The new inhabitants, or those who follow the New Commandant, reject the Old Commandant’s teachings and find the apparatus unjust, much like progressive society seems to reject traditional religious teachings. These inhabitants are of the type of people that threaten to eat others. Kafka seems to be saying that those who reject religion degrade to animals and resort to primitive, unconstrained