To Kill A Mockingbird Essay: Difference Between Revenge And Justice
Audrey Price
Essay #2
03 April 15
Revenge and Justice
The main difference between revenge and justice is this: justice is a moral rightness, while revenge is an action taken by an individual as a response to a wrongdoing. Revenge is done to satisfy the individual who was hurt, while justice is carried out to show the fairness of society.
In A Time to Kill, both revenge and justice are main contributors to the background of the film. Lawyer Jake Brigance brings justice to Carl Lee Hailey by representing him and winning the case in the end. It’s also because of the jury of the court that justice is finally brought to Carl Lee. On the revenge side of the story, I think there is a part of Jake that kept going with the case because he personally wanted to see revenge taken on the two guys who raped Carl’s daughter. He put aside his legal mindset and thought about his little girl at home and what he would do if that happened to her. Jake also knew …show more content…
Lennie is treated differently throughout the entire film because of disability and no, it’s definitely not fair that the mob chased after him in hopes of lynching him. However, I do feel that justice was carried out in a proper way by George shooting Lennie and allowing him a less painful death, since it was almost inevitable that the mob was going to kill him anyway. In today’s justice system, Lennie’s disability would be taken into consideration but that’s not so much the case in Lennie’s time. Although it’s sad and morbid to think about, maybe George killing Lennie really did him a favor because considering the society and era they lived in, Lennie’s future was doomed because people didn’t understand his disorder. It was a joke to
Essay #2
03 April 15
Revenge and Justice
The main difference between revenge and justice is this: justice is a moral rightness, while revenge is an action taken by an individual as a response to a wrongdoing. Revenge is done to satisfy the individual who was hurt, while justice is carried out to show the fairness of society.
In A Time to Kill, both revenge and justice are main contributors to the background of the film. Lawyer Jake Brigance brings justice to Carl Lee Hailey by representing him and winning the case in the end. It’s also because of the jury of the court that justice is finally brought to Carl Lee. On the revenge side of the story, I think there is a part of Jake that kept going with the case because he personally wanted to see revenge taken on the two guys who raped Carl’s daughter. He put aside his legal mindset and thought about his little girl at home and what he would do if that happened to her. Jake also knew …show more content…
Lennie is treated differently throughout the entire film because of disability and no, it’s definitely not fair that the mob chased after him in hopes of lynching him. However, I do feel that justice was carried out in a proper way by George shooting Lennie and allowing him a less painful death, since it was almost inevitable that the mob was going to kill him anyway. In today’s justice system, Lennie’s disability would be taken into consideration but that’s not so much the case in Lennie’s time. Although it’s sad and morbid to think about, maybe George killing Lennie really did him a favor because considering the society and era they lived in, Lennie’s future was doomed because people didn’t understand his disorder. It was a joke to