Everyday there is someone in the world that is crying for justice to be served because they have been wronged in their life. Sometimes justice is served and other times it is not. This has remained true throughout all of history. There have been people who have had their land taken by their kings and rights denied by their leaders. If one is to go back and sift through the old records of every civilization, whether the civilization is still functions or not, they will find records of each leader and what they did. In the records of each leader there will be a time when they denied justice to a citizen. Regardless if the leader meant to or not, they still denied justice at least once, and some more than that. For example, we had USSR and its leader Stalin, he rounded up and killed millions with his secret police even though many them were innocent, meaning he denied justice to millions of people who were locked up and/or executed for no reason.
This problem was brought to light in the play Antigone by Sophocles. In the play Antigone, the king, also known as Kreon, is a very child-like man and has performed some actions that, according to our understandings of the concepts of justice, are unjust and unfair. He was very stubborn …show more content…
This punishment was not close to the same intensity as the crime that she committed. The concept of legal justice means that for the crime that a criminal commits, he or she will receive a punishment that is proportional to the intensity of said crime. Examples include: illegal parking results in a ticket and murdering results in lifetime imprisonment. Kreon didn’t give a proportional response at all to the crime. All she did was secretly bury her brother to attempt to make right the injustice that Kreon had done when the brothers had perished in their civil war that they had for the power of the
This problem was brought to light in the play Antigone by Sophocles. In the play Antigone, the king, also known as Kreon, is a very child-like man and has performed some actions that, according to our understandings of the concepts of justice, are unjust and unfair. He was very stubborn …show more content…
This punishment was not close to the same intensity as the crime that she committed. The concept of legal justice means that for the crime that a criminal commits, he or she will receive a punishment that is proportional to the intensity of said crime. Examples include: illegal parking results in a ticket and murdering results in lifetime imprisonment. Kreon didn’t give a proportional response at all to the crime. All she did was secretly bury her brother to attempt to make right the injustice that Kreon had done when the brothers had perished in their civil war that they had for the power of the