A Hanging By George Orwell: One Flaw Of Justice

Capital Punishment: One Flaw of Justice George Orwell, one of the realistic writer of his age, depicts the beautiful picture of prison in his short prose, “A Hanging”. As a matter of facts that prose ain’t just about the convicts and the prison; it’s utterly different in a way that convey unusual experienced of the writer while he was working in the Indian Imperial Police. It refers to the different vision of that circumstance where an Indian guy was going to be hanged. The world behind those prison wall at those time of early 20th century was really devastating in sense of giving justice. All those details portrays by the Orwell like how innocent the convict look, how
Orwell described the prison cell where the prisoners due to be hanged were placed as, “a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages” (Orwell 99). It clearly emphasized the ideas that prisoner were no more like a creatures behind those prison wall. All the way, the writer also illustrate that condition where nothing was left for the prisoner except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. And also the context where the convicts was handcuffed and guarded by two tall Indian warder with a rifles nearly scarce the hell out of anyone. Beside those things about the prison, prisoner itself look like innocent one as the writer reflect him as “a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes who had a thick, sprouting mustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the mustache of a comic man on the films (Orwell 99).” All the way to the end of the prose there nothing he behaves like a guilty one who actually did the crime through his life. Also the religious belief of him as he chanted word “Ram” before getting hanged can comply to the fact that he might not be a guilty