Essay about Justice and Judgement

To Kill A Mockingbird - An Essay On Justice

In the secret courts of men’s hearts justice is a beast with no appearance. It morphs to serve a different cause, and it bites a different person each time. In the cases of Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, and Arthur Radley in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, justice is applied differently each time. Tom Robinson doesn’t meet an equitable end, with a death sentence over his head from the start. Justice isn’t in his favor in the stained prejudiced eyes and hearts of the people of Maycomb County. Bob Ewell tries to manipulate justice his own way, since he doesn’t believe that the justice he wanted was truly met. Even after Tom Robinson’s conviction, he still sets out after the people who degraded him. Arthur Radley is discriminated against by everyone in the county of Maycomb through malicious rumours and alienation. Arthur also seeks to put his own twist on vengeance, especially in the case of Bob Ewell, where he gave him the justice he deserved. Yet took no recognition. Justice and how it ties in with prejudice is the most evident theme in many different aspects in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”. In the cases of Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, and Arthur Radley, moral rightness is received, and justice is served in it’s own sense for each character in the end.

In conclusion, “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a novel primarily set about racial inequality and how it affects justice. Tom is wrongly convicted of a crime he did commit, and he didn’t want to take white man’s chances and he ended up risking his own life. Bob Ewell puts a man’s life on the line when he accuses Tom Robinson to cover up his own faults. He seeks out revenge against everyone who degraded him, and in turn feels his final breath. Arthur Radley is treated with prejudice and injustice in Maycomb. He turns out to be an innocent man who helps put the pawn of justice on the chessboard when he ends Bob Ewell. So Justice is finally served in different senses for Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, and Arthur Radley in the end.

huck's relationship with food is a prominent theme throughout the novel, and during his time on jackson's island and working his way down river, huck revels in and enjoys his ad hoc dining. in the first chapter, we observe huck is ironically trapped in a "civilized" world, when he would prefer to live freely in nature.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.