write a brief note on the significance of the trial scene in Galsworthy Justice?
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The title is an impassioned commentary on the legal system and the prison administration in a commercial society in which hypocrisy and false values heap injustices on the Falders and make them find peace in death.
Falder and Ruth are two representatives of those who are outcasts in a society only because they are poor. Neither the court of justice nor the inhuman society comes forward to protect them from the humiliating experiences and helplessness. Falder’s heart is large enough to bleed for Ruth who suffers all humiliations, miseries, ignominy, and atrocities of an unhappy life. His sympathy for her develops into passionate love and he is prepared to do anything to help her out of the hell, promising her a new life and a happy home away from that hell. But a poor clerk is too poor to realize this dream. So in his desperate bid to get money he commits forgery which is an immoral act in the eyes of the society and the custodians of law. Nobody pays any heed to the plea that to save Ruth Falder could not but forge the cheque. James How does not accept the plea of his son, Walter that Falder should be given a chance. In his blind adherence to the moral values of a decadent, oppressive society he hands Falder over to the guardians of Justice.
The title of the play is a deliberate choice of Galsworthy who intends to make it sound ironical. In fact, the main tune of the play deals with the crux of justice, or rather the edifice of justice that appears majestic and awe-inspiring, but in the name of justice it crushes the poor under its wheel. The title is an impassioned commentary on the legal system and the prison administration in a commercial society in which hypocrisy and false values heap injustices on the Falders and make them find peace in death.
Falder and Ruth are two representatives of those who are outcasts in a society only because they are poor. Neither the court of justice nor the inhuman society comes forward to protect them from the humiliating experiences and helplessness. Falder’s heart is large enough to bleed for Ruth who suffers all humiliations, miseries, ignominy, and atrocities of an unhappy life. His sympathy for her develops into passionate love and he is prepared to do anything to help her out of the hell, promising her a new life and a happy home away from that hell. But a poor clerk is too poor to realize this dream. So in his desperate bid to get money he commits forgery which is an immoral act in the eyes of the society and the custodians of law. Nobody pays any heed to the plea that to save Ruth Falder could not but forge the cheque. James How does not accept the plea of his son, Walter that Falder should be given a chance. In his blind adherence to the moral values of a decadent, oppressive society he hands Falder over to the guardians of Justice.