The Judge's Wife
Crime and Punishment There are thousands of different cultures in the world today. These cultures range from being somewhat primitive to highly sophisticated. Each culture has its own standard by which to judge crime and the punishment that is felt to warrant the crime. Religion often plays an important role in the decision, as does the politics of the government in charge when such standards of law are legislated. In “The Judge’s Wife” by Isabel Allende, one man in this case decides the standard of crime. Often is of his own accord which is supported by the quote, “The severity and stubbornness with which he executed the law even at the expense of justice had made him feared throughout the province”. The judge in this story runs the town as a dictatorship in which he decides the standard of punishment for a crime.