why did denis say he could not do without sinkers in order to catch fish
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A Malefactor is a very short story written by Anton Chekov. Denis Grigoryev, an “ exceedingly lean little peasant in a striped hempen shirt and patched drawers” is brought before the magistrate to stand trial. His crime is that Ivan Semyonovich Akinfov, a railway watchman, saw him engaged in removing a fastening nut from the railway line. The description given by Denis Chekov is of a poor man, hardly presentable, who occasionally removes nuts from the railway line to put them into the weight used in the fishing line. The poor peasant is innocent to the point of accepting the ‘crime’ unmindful of the repercussions, and the reader is amused to go through the Q&A sequence between the accused and the magistrate. In common case law, the admission of a crime by an accused is ground enough to order his punishment under the Law of the Land, without requiring any detailed procedure to be followed, but in this case, the court appears to be incomplete. After a brief summary of the proceedings, Denis is sent to prison as a punishment, although there are other accomplices named after him. As a result, no argument or plea made by him prevails.
Even to a layman, removing a nut from a railway line that could lead to accidents and the deaths of many innocent passengers is a crime that should not go unpunished. In the course of the trial, the defendant Denis refers to “We people……the peasants of Klimovo, that is,” which shows that, besides him, many others are engaged in the same criminal activity. The ends of justice would only be fully met if they were also brought up and made to face the consequences. Besides, all those who use weights made of nuts are equally answerable as they are not ignorant as to where the iron comes from to make them. The story, which is probably a depiction of a real-life incident raises many questions and reflects upon the Justice system prevailing at the time.
The message put forward by the story is that justice should not only be done but should also seem to have been done.
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