JUSTICE: A TRAGEDY IN FOUR ACTS - EDITED BY G. R. HUNTER

John Galsworthy highlighted the social problems of the early twentieth century England in his writings. A versatile artist, his novels as well as plays were the outcome of his concern for contemporary society. Galsworthy dealt with the hardships and sufferings of the underdog and advocated far reaching social reforms. In Justice, he realistically portrayed the plight of William Falder, who is sentenced to long imprisonment for forgery and who undergoes extreme mental anguish in prison. When he comes out, he is not able to rehabilitate himself in society because he is an ex-convict. Consequently, he commits suicide.

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