The Justice Game
To what extent has textual form shaped your understanding of conflicting perspectives?
In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.
Representations of divergent viewpoints using different textual forms leads to a greater understanding of conflicting perspectives and the multi-layered nature of complicated issues. By comparing conflicting perspectives, we come to understand the complexity of a certain issue and also that despite the textual form, a text’s purpose is to promote the composer’s perspective. This has been achieved through my study of Geoffrey Robertson’s 1998 memoir The Justice Game, which discourages involving emotion in the justice system and suggests that the current system is effective, the conflicting 2013 7.30 Report episode “Jill Meagher’s husband calls her killer’s sentence a disgrace” which uses emotion to communicate the flaws in the justice system., and the Michael Leunig 2013 cartoon Julian Assange from The Age, which supports Robertson’s view that the courtroom must be impartial and not biased by personal emotion.
In the chapter “Afterword” in The Justice Game, Robertson enforces the importance of excluding emotion and personal opinion from the courtroom. Robertson’s perspective of the justice system is that “Justice’ is not a result conforming to popular expectation”, but is rather “an objective judgment”. The audience is positioned to accept his opinion because of the use of non-fiction memoir as the textual form. Non-fiction is perceived as fact or truth, hence the audience is positioned to view his opinion as truth. The medium of production adds to his credibility because traditionally, print is also perceived as a reliable source as it has been repeatedly edited and scrutinized, again giving credibility to Robertson’s view that the justice system should be objective. In “Diana on the Dock”, the inclusion of “I was the author of a textbook” apprises
In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.
Representations of divergent viewpoints using different textual forms leads to a greater understanding of conflicting perspectives and the multi-layered nature of complicated issues. By comparing conflicting perspectives, we come to understand the complexity of a certain issue and also that despite the textual form, a text’s purpose is to promote the composer’s perspective. This has been achieved through my study of Geoffrey Robertson’s 1998 memoir The Justice Game, which discourages involving emotion in the justice system and suggests that the current system is effective, the conflicting 2013 7.30 Report episode “Jill Meagher’s husband calls her killer’s sentence a disgrace” which uses emotion to communicate the flaws in the justice system., and the Michael Leunig 2013 cartoon Julian Assange from The Age, which supports Robertson’s view that the courtroom must be impartial and not biased by personal emotion.
In the chapter “Afterword” in The Justice Game, Robertson enforces the importance of excluding emotion and personal opinion from the courtroom. Robertson’s perspective of the justice system is that “Justice’ is not a result conforming to popular expectation”, but is rather “an objective judgment”. The audience is positioned to accept his opinion because of the use of non-fiction memoir as the textual form. Non-fiction is perceived as fact or truth, hence the audience is positioned to view his opinion as truth. The medium of production adds to his credibility because traditionally, print is also perceived as a reliable source as it has been repeatedly edited and scrutinized, again giving credibility to Robertson’s view that the justice system should be objective. In “Diana on the Dock”, the inclusion of “I was the author of a textbook” apprises