The most direct comparison, however, is with the Roman goddess of justice, Justitia. The Lady Justice statue is usually in the form of a woman who is standing or sitting. She is typically dressed in a toga-like robe, maybe barefoot, and her hair is either flowing over her shoulders or braided in a bun or around her head. She holds a balance, or two-tray scale in one hand and a sword in the other; usually the scales are in the left hand and the sword in the right, but this is not always so.
Sometimes, she also wears a blindfold over her eyes. Some of the first images similar to the Lady of Justice date back to the Egyptian goddess Maat, who signified truth and order in that ancient society.
The sword is said to be the emblem of military honor and should incite the bearer to a just pursuit of honor and virtue. It is symbolic of liberty and strength. It has been used as a symbol of the word of God. The statue of the woman of justice found in courthouses is a representation of Themis, the Greek goddess of divine justice.
The statue shows her holding the scales in the left hand, a sword in the right hand. She is blindfolded with a black ribbon. The scales symbolise fairness and balance.
Lady Justice can also be traced as far back as the ancient Egyptians goddess Isis and Maat. She was first sculpted with her blindfold by Hans Gieng, a Renaissance sculptor, in the late 15 th century. The blindfolded Lady Justice represents a theory in law: blind justice.
The Gold Statue of Justice. Justice means having equality and fairness to others. The principles of justice are procedural, retributive and restorative justice. Scale ratio The scale ratio of a model represents the proportional ratio of a linear dimension of the model to the same feature of the original. Examples include a 3-dimensional scale model of a building or the scale drawings of the elevations or plans of a building. Lions are commonly associated with courage, power, royalty, dignity, authority, justice , wisdom, and ferocity.
In early American law. By using the sword to defend or enforce the law, we would have to compromise precision from the scales because they would succumb to an indirect transfer of movement from using the sword at full capacity. But this time you are wielding the bat in one hand and balancing not holding a ball in the other.
For this illustration, being blindfolded does not matter; however note the task of swinging the bat single-handedly and balancing the ball simultaneously. Without compromising one for the author, how does the justice system compensate for this difficult relationship?
By swinging the bat with one hand, it ends up feeling top-heavy, hard to control, ineffective. The intermixture of metonymic tokens can show us more of an underlying representation that stems from visual artifacts. Because the meanings in each token are unstable — having the capability to change when juxtaposed with one another, creating a combined effect or exhibiting an interaction — it is important to understand how metonymic tokens work.
Each part in itself also expands hermeneutic depth. For example, after analyzing the metonymic tokens above, notice how this approach adds precision, texture, and cultural insight to our understanding of the blindfold, appealing to the impartiality of justice to some, but also stoicism and the need for a rational society to others.
These readings apart from each other — but also integrated in Justitia — show the usefulness of the metonymic token, a concept that helps us to make sense of an artifact or message that we are confronted with in our daily lives.
By also expanding to the hermeneutics of MTI, we were able to make sense of interacting metonymic tokens, which have opened doors to new ways of parsing visual rhetoric. Ceccarelli, L. Polysemy: Multiple meanings in rhetorical criticism.
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This approach to justice seeks to amend the damage caused to the victim s and hold the offender accountable for future offenses. Knox, B. Knox, Bradly A. Almost always draped in flowing robes, mature but not old, she symbolizes the fair and equal administration of the law, without corruption, avarice, prejudice, or favor.
Her ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the Goddess of Divine Justice.
Classical representations of Themis did not show her blindfolded because of her talent for prophecy, nor was she holding a sword because she represented common consent, not coercion. Justitia , c 1AD, is the Roman goddess of Justice and was often portrayed as evenly balancing both scales and a sword and often wearing a blindfold.
Sometimes she is portrayed holding in one hand the fasces, a symbol of judicial authority, and a flame or torch in the other symbolizing truth.
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