Forgiveness And Justice Analysis

To forgive is to let go of anger, to want justice for what had happened is to harbor both anger and resentment. Whether justice and forgiveness can go hand in hand seems to be a controversy that is often talked about in many different literary works, often using this topic to convey a message to the readers. In these literary works, the authors use different methods to convey this message and their standpoint on the argument: Forgiveness and Justice coinciding with one another. As opposed to what others would state, forgiveness and justice cannot both be achieved at the same time. This is shown in a multitude of short stories, poems, articles, and even films. Forgiveness and justice are contradicting ideas which means that they cannot go hand in hand with one another; it has to be one or the other. Forgiveness is to let go of any anger that could be held within an individual for any one thing. To forgive is to let go of that anger, as shown in the article, “Let South Africa Show the World how to Forgive”. In this article, the author explains how South Africa had been given a new government, and in it people never really got justice for the wrongs that had been done …show more content…
The article explains the personal thoughts of a prisoner of war that had been captured by the Japanese and tortured relentlessly during war. In the article it conveys the anger that the author had felt towards his torturer, as shown in this quote, “I wanted to drown him, cage him, beat him- as he had done to me.” This quote shows that the author had no intention in forgiving him at first, but as time progressed, after he had met him, they became friends, showing that he could forgive him without receiving justice for what had happened to