P.J. O'Rourke of Rolling Stone magazine once wrote, "One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." Perhaps Franz Kafka, by not believing in free will, made his own bitter existance just slightly more bearable by not having to blame anyone …
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…rather than any other animal, Kafka makes a subliminal reference to Darwin's theory of evolution, creating another attack against God. Determinism is defined as "a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will," a belief that is clearly shown in all of his works, including the three short stories of "The Judgement," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to the Academy."