Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - The English Drama - John Galsworthy - Justice
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
214 John Galsworthy
employ, on condition that he give up Ruth. Fal-
der resents this :
Folder. I couldn t give her up. I couldn t! Oh,
sir! I m all she s got to look to. And I m sure she s all
I ve got.
It is then that Folder learns the awful news that
the woman he loves had been driven by the chariot
wheel of Justice to sell herself.
Ruth. I tried making skirts . . . cheap things. It
was the best I could get, but I never made more than ten
shillings a week, buying my own cotton and working all
day; I hardly ever got to bed till past twelve. I kept at
it for nine months. ... It was starvation for the chil
dren. . . . And then . . .
my employer happened he s
happened ever since.
At this terrible psychologic moment the police
appear to drag Falder back to prison for failing
to report to the authorities as ticket-of-leave man.
Completely overcome by the inexorability of his
fate, Falder throws himself down the stairs, break
ing his neck.
The socio-revolutionary significance of
"
Jus
tice
"
consists not only in the portrayal of the in
human system which grinds the Falders and
Honeywills, but even more so in the utter helpless
ness of society as expressed in the words of the
Senior Clerk, Cokeson,
"
No one ll touch him
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
