Before the Law is about a man's goal to get past the gatekeeper that gain access of the law. He's told that it would be hard but instead he just waits for years upon years until he grows old and dies, never accessing the law.
This parable can be easily used to teach the lesson: If you don't try, nothing will ever change. This is because the man just waited, he did nothing that whole time and just expected for the gate to simply open for him. Even when he was told by the gatekeeper, “If you’re so drawn to it, just try to go in despite my veto.”, the man still chooses to wait and allow himself to be let in whenever that is.
I believe that the author, Frank Kafka, uses a parable to get his message across is to make it more relatable to the general audience. It’s not realistic in plot, but it’s simple for almost anyone to understand, and that’s why the point gets across so easily.
This parable can relate to Antigone because Antigone herself chose to do the opposite of what the man in Before the Law. Instead of just waiting for everything to magically go her way, she took the actions of getting to the law in her own hands to make a change, by trying to get Oedipus a proper burial which was illegal. So one could say that Antigone would very much agree with the lesson of the parable because she did what that story basically would tell her not to.
This parable can be easily used to teach the lesson: If you don't try, nothing will ever change. This is because the man just waited, he did nothing that whole time and just expected for the gate to simply open for him. Even when he was told by the gatekeeper, “If you’re so drawn to it, just try to go in despite my veto.”, the man still chooses to wait and allow himself to be let in whenever that is.
I believe that the author, Frank Kafka, uses a parable to get his message across is to make it more relatable to the general audience. It’s not realistic in plot, but it’s simple for almost anyone to understand, and that’s why the point gets across so easily.
This parable can relate to Antigone because Antigone herself chose to do the opposite of what the man in Before the Law. Instead of just waiting for everything to magically go her way, she took the actions of getting to the law in her own hands to make a change, by trying to get Oedipus a proper burial which was illegal. So one could say that Antigone would very much agree with the lesson of the parable because she did what that story basically would tell her not to.