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Justice and punishment in two short stories: 'The Black Veil' and 'The Melancholy Hussar'  

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Justice and punishment in two short stories 'The Black Veil' and the 'Melancholy Hussar' draw the reader's attention to justice and punishment. In 'The Black Veil' a widower goes to a doctor, dressed in a black veil, and asks him if he can heal her son, he accepts and goes to her house and saw that her son had been hanged. The 'Melancholy Hussar' is about a woman who falls in love with a man from the Navy and he wants to her flee with him and his friends, but on the morning they are suppose to leave, her ex-lover comes back and she doesn't go along with the plan, the men were caught and shot, two of his friends were flogged. The aspects of justice and punishment in the 'Melancholy Hussar' is in the Navy, and you could be demoted for being two minutes late, and shot if you tried to...

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