His submission is to such extent that he claims there was no injustice done to him although he repeatedly states throughout the story that he was totally innocent. His being found guilty was just "a fatal linking of circumstances, of grave and insignificant events, of vague silence and indefinite words". He insistently refrains from accusing the power for his misfortune. He even avoids accusing the judges, who were agents of the power, in case he might provoke the anger of the power. The "honest and conscientious judges" were "perfectly right, perfectly right." This repetition is either an assurance of, and insistence on, its being true, which the incredulous reader would not believe, or an attempt to force-persuade his conscience which may still retain a tendency toward truth, and to drown a last bit of suspicion. Either way, it tells us how dogmatically he sticks to his submission. He even finds it "inexplicable" that the head of the family secrets book government should turn his death sentence to life in prison because normal people, "who can judge things and events only by their appearance", would naturally expect him to be so punished.
having set aside entirely the question of truth and falsehood on general principles, I subjected the facts and the words to numerous combinations, erecting structures, even as small children build various structures with their wooden blocks; and after persistent efforts I finally succeeded in finding a certain combination of facts which, though strong in principle, seemed so plausible that my actual innocence became perfectly clear, exactly and positively established.