Kafka's the Trial

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Clarissa’s meditation on the young man who had killed himself (Donovan 96). Finally, Vespers merges with Compline, a “bedtime prayer” signaled by the “old woman going to txd” (MD 283). Sacrifice is the focal point at which all phases of the liturgy and the novel converge. The pattern shaped between the sacrifice of Christ and the immolation of Alcestis further implies for both Septimus and Clarissa that there might be a resurrection for one and a redemption for the other. Thus, the solution to the mystery that this secular scripture traces may be unveiled within the system where the pattern lies.