Queen versus Dudley and Stephens' philosophy of analysis essay
Summary: This article reads the trial of The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens over the 'use of the sea' cannibalism alongside popular adventure novels from the same decade by R.L. Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard. The process functioned ritually to impose and affirm a community conscience in which the rule of law itself became a rule of law. Thomas Dudley and Edward Stephens had deliberately taken the life of Mr. Brooks in his most defenseless state, thereby breaking the law and deserving their just punishment. . Here they are today trying to apologize for this diabolical act. One day no other people, Brooks, Dudley and Stephens, were caught in a,