Saturday, December 15, 2018
Justice
One of the themes that I feel could apply to many works that we have read this year is a character’s need to make things right and achieve justice. This could be because of a disruption in the great chain of being or just one person feeling as though there is a situation where someone has been wronged and it needs to be fixed. This concept of justice is most prevalent in Medea and Hamlet. In Medea, Jason broke his promise to her by abandoning their marriage and their children to marry the princess of Corinth. In order to get revenge, Medea kills his new bride and their children. Medea felt as though she was wronged, so she took matters into her own hands to make Jason suffer. In Hamlet, Hamlet needs to avenge his father’s murder by killing his uncle.
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Sophia, this is a wonderful point concerning the themes of the works we read the semester. I think that something that would be really beneficial for all of us to consider is not only these big large scoped revenge plot such as Madea and Hamlet, but also the smaller plots of justice and the ways they were integrated into our readings. Take Sing Unburied Sing for example. The first main theme that you think of when you think of this novel is not revenge, I think we can agree on that. But, I do think that there are underlying themes of justice and revenge in this novel. To name the most specific and significant one, the justice that isn’t taken upon Michaels family when they murdered Given, and how that affects this family throughout the rest of the story.
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