MODULE C: REPRESENTATION & TEXT
ELECTIVE: CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES
|THE CASE |QUOTES & TECHNIQUES |CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVE |
|The Oz Trials |I knew about the law – but nothing about justice |The law is supposed to be about justice. |
|This case is about the Oz Magazine: The School Kids’ Edition, a |Sarcasm | |
|special edition of an underground magazine put together by a | | |
|group of high school students in London, led to the magazine’s | |Robertson is pointing out the anomaly of having a jury that have no|
|adult editors and publisher being accused of the crime of |They saw the list of names (of the jury)and their faces fell: Boilermaker, |idea what the cultural features of “youth” was all about. This |
|“corrupting public morals”, which carried a maximum possible |Driver, Ganger, Foreman, Crane driver, Salesman, Supervisor...’ |conflicted with the process of the law |
|sentence of life imprisonment. The trial took place at London’s | | |
|Old Bailey court in the summer of 1971. |Listing |...