Ayad Akhtar Justice Vs Order

"If faced with choosing justice or order" (Akhtar 59), which do you choose? In the play, Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, we see that Jory and Emily differ on this conflict. Jory chooses order, while Emily chooses justice. I believe that both of them are correct. Justice is a byproduct of order, so without order there cannot be justice. One cannot exist without the other. However, if we look at Emily from Disgraced and Romaine Patterson from The Laramie Project they have two separate views on Justice Verses Order.
Justice is defined as, “fairness in protection of rights and punishment of wrongs. While all legal systems aim to uphold this ideal through fair and proper administration of the law of the land, it is possible to have unjust laws” (BusinessDictionary.com). Justice is all about righting a wrong. On the other hand, order is defined as, “a state in which the laws and rules regulating public [behavior] are observed and authority is obeyed” (Oxford Dictionaries Editors). Order is letting the laws and the rules take care of things instead of righting the wrong. However, J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States, says …show more content…
Emily says that she believes in Justice, but after her husband beats her when he found out about the affair, she leaves him. I see this as order rather than justice. I believe that this is order because she is righting a wrong. If she were righting a wrong, she would have gotten Amir arrested for battery and assault. However, she instead tells him not to contact her again, which is more of order than anything. On the other hand, Romaine gets justice after Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church protest their hate message during the trial. Romaine gets justice because she formed Angel Action, which shielded Matthew’s family from seeing their hate messages and how they were happy that Matthew was