What is Justice

When I think of examples of justice, Law and order, the government and the court system I think of books like to kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men. I think of movies like “My Cousin Vinny” and shows like “Law and Order. All of these examples create our ideas of the legal system in this country. By comparing The Trial with others ideas about justice and order I have notices that there is a sense of comfort and security that people who are on the right side of the law have because of the justice system. We are taught to believe that those who do wrong will be receive a trial and be punished fairly. Within the legal system I think that we sacrifice some of our freedoms so we many seek protection.

When we were asked to define justice, I was able to think of classic example that we all know such as shows like Law and Order and classic books like To Kill a Mockingbird. But how can we define justice and words? Some of the definitions include the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. Rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice. And the moral principle determining just conduct.

But The Trial is different; it is the lack of this social order and the confusion and fear that is causes within society. Where would we be without our system of Justice, would we live in a world like this where Joseph K has found him self on the wrong side of the invisible law? Or would there be mass chaos with out the law? Is some order is better than none? Whether the law is the law of the god’s like in the Oresetia where the gods control the fate of the people or the law of the government system that is in place like in The Trial, there is this external force that can be good or bad, can protect or cause fear. Our biggest fear as a reader is that this could become our reality and that we could lose the sense of security that we have because of our form of justice.