After our class discussion today I realised that the justice system in Umofia has a very backward way of running. What I mean to say is, it needs a lot of work and it is obviously very unfair. The first and most straightforward example would have to be the trial that goes on about the man that beats his wife.
"We have heard both sides of the case.' said Evil Forest. 'Our duty is not to blame this man or to praise that, but to settle the dispute...Go to your in-laws with a pot of wine and beg your wife to return to you. It is not bravery when a man fights with a woman.' (pg. 88-89)
This passage shows that the punishment for the man beating his wife over a period of many years is that he simply brings a pot of wine and begs for forgiveness. It is a very backwards system, unjust and unfair. It also is a very much male dominated justice system seeing that the panel is all men.
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