The story is set in an unnamed Penal colony.
In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before l.
As in some of Kafka\'s other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror.
Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau\'s The Torture Garden as an influence.
The story is set in an unnamed Penal colony