Monday, February 4, 2013

The Hand of Justice Critique


The experiment is clearly in the form , a file of the FBI. The speaker seems to want to confess to murders for “justice” and the sake of the families of those he murdered. I think this is curious because he does not mention their names. I think it would be interesting if he refused to give them names because of his lack of respect for them, but he still refuses to give them any individual identification. I think most people with this requirement to enforce morality are usually very holier-than-though, self-righteous types, which I don’t see here much. He just seems nervous, which makes me wonder how premeditated the murders were. They seem like he was prepared for them mentally, he knew what he was going to do, but he didn’t physically prepare for them, as he stored at least of the bodies in a shed. Sans hands, apparently, which is I think something you could play with in regards to the title. I almost want him to say he placed them in some strange place or position—like on a scale, and start laughing. I want to see him snap, or at least exclaim some of the dialogue on the second-to-last page. The one thing that really, bothers me though is the ending. It seems like a new beginning and there’s just so much there that is completely ignored. I want to hear what he thinks, what drove him to this.

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