Analysis Of Karel Capek's The Last Judgment

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The serious short story “The Last Judgment” by Karel Capek suggests that humans are constantly making negative judgments about others actions. In the serious short story, a man named Ferdinand Kugler is a murderer; he dies and faces judgment in heaven. God appears, not as a judge, but as a witness, knowing everything. When Kugler asks why God is not his judge, the reply is that knowing everything about a man should make him unable to judge because he has seen everything from the good to the bad. In the story, Kugler and God are in the court room alone when Kugler asks who the judges were. God responds with “They were judges on earth, so now they’re judges here as well”. Kugler then begins to think about why God cannot be the judge. Kugler
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