"In The Penal Colony", Kafka illustrates the capital punishment of a colony run by a governor. Throughout the story, the officer who performs the execution reinforces all his actions by saying that this was how the previous governor used to do it or that this his how the previous governor would have liked it done. In doing this, Kafka applies his story to some everyday lifestyles by illustrating the manor of traditions.
As the story opens, the uniforms worn by the officer in the penal colony are obviously two thick and hot to be wearing, since the location of the penal colony is in the tropics.
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