Justice From the Perspective of World Literature's Classic Works: Antigone, the Merchant of Venice and the Trial.

• Main Author: Simone Peixoto Ferreira Porto
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-06-01
• Series: Revista de Direito, Arte e Literatura
• Subjects: Estado, Direito, Sociedade, Literatura, Justiça social, Humanidade
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistadireitoarteliteratura/article/view/648

Through a foray into world literature's classic works: Antigone, The Merchant of Venice and The Trial, this study aims to investigate the intimate relationship of the literature with the law over the centuries, emphasizing its role as a disseminatig instrument of social critique of power relations. Thus, with footstool in these literary works, its reseach problem is the comparative examination of conceptions of justice drawn from such literary works since classical antiquity throughout the middle ages to modernity with its various shapes and forms of understanding the law according to the degree of complexity of human groups in history.