The Balek Scales: a Measurement of Injustice

The figment The Balek Scales by Heinrich Bll tells the experience of the vote counters grandfather in the village upon which the Balek family had a firm grip. The Balek family, afterward crawl inn as Balek von Biligan, is part of the elite furcate, as the chase excerpt describes the family who lived in the chateau and drove two carriages, who always maintained one male child from the village while he studied theology at the seminary in Prague (Bll 15-16).There are a lot more details, but given the side by side(p) quotation, they can be seen as a freehanded family from the elite class (Bll 16). The scalesknown as the Balek scales in the storyare the Baleks as well asl for art mushrooms, herbs, and other tradable goods for moneymarks and pfennigs. No one ever questions their mend possession of the scales.However, the fabricators grandfather, Franz Brcher, discoers in aloneice within the standard of the Balek scales. Even with this evidence, the efforts of villagers to se ek judge are thwarted by the office and influence of the Balek von Biligan family, which Bll portrays as a classic skirmish surrounded by the working and elite classes in The Balek Scales.Injustice is the recurring theme in the story as the Balek scalesthe scales of justice for the villagersfavor the Balek von Biligan clan, as the story suggests in the following lines he pulled the five pebbles from his pocket, held them out to the young woman, and said, This much, fifty-five grams, is briefly in every pound of your justice (Bll 16).As the line states, the unjustness that the narrators grandfather claims in front of Frau Balek von Biligan is the unequal or unsporting measurement that the scales present for their foraged goodsmushrooms, herbs, and the like. Inevitably, the harm results in a short blooming(a) force back with the Reeves gendarmes everywherepowering the population.Then everything goes back to normal, with the Balek von Biligan clan quench on the driver seatin control. The power of the Baleks is too fast(a) for Franz Brchers, whose search for justice is seen as a swollen-headed guarantee to overthrow the come outingly unfair rule of the Baleks over the village.Looking at it from a different angle, the village, along with the other two villages, could have avoided the short cover revolt if Franz Brcher remained absorbed to the injustice that the Balek scales represented.Upon confronting this injustice, Franz experiences some tragic events, as stated in the following lines the reeves gendarmes arrivedshooting and cracking as they came and removed the scales and the book by force. My grandfathers small-scale sister lost her life, (Bll 16-17) and My grandfathers parents had to leave the village, and the new impenetrable of their little daughter (Bll 17).Franz Brcher experiences two tragic moments in his life which were caused by the Balek scales. These were his little sisters death and their familys changeless migration. This coul d have been avoided by Franz if he remained ignorant to the injustice mentioned.A classic appointment between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat classes unfolds in the story of The Balek Scale. Relating the story to the fond divisions of order, it is a factalways has beenthat the rich have control over those who are not because of the wealth they possess and their strong influence over the government at least a portion of it is attracted to the wealthy of prominent families like the Baleks in the story.The scales of the story represent the injustice in the troupethey favor the rich over the poor roughly of the time anyway. The scales may rattling represent the justice system in society as they can sometimes be distorted in favor of those with money. The story represents this illness that is quite evident in past societies, as sound as in todays society. Regardless of how strong is the dissipate of the acting hero or deliverer of justice, his efforts are usually just futile .Thus, the story entails a classic battle between the rich and the poor. This battle is always intensified by a mere claim for an injustice brought about by the rich, supposedly, which affects the poor many times over. As the following quotation suggests, the injustice that Franz Brcher and his family experience in the village is actually present in every place they went to but did not deposit long anywhere because it pained them to see how everywhere the finger of justice swung falsely (Bll 17).This clearly shows how injustice is present everywhere and how great is its establish on those who are least fortunatethe poor. It will surely distinguish a long time to cure this illness of society because those who know about this injustice remain oblivious to its presence in society they are just watching it eat away the true theory of justice.The last two lines in the story are probably the most striking as the Brcher family and many others realize the gravity of injustice in society And those who wanted to listen can hear the yarn of the Baleks von Biligan, whose justice lacked a tenth part. But in that location were few who listened (Bll 17). In this line, those who receive the painful end of the spear of injustice find it futile to express to the suffering they are feeling caused by the injustice. It is futile because seldom do people listen to their woes and cries for justice.Hardly anyone listens to them because of their place in society as the poor working classduring that time, the poor do not seem to have a strong voice in society. The rich and in good order simply have control over most of them. Any revolt or uprising seems to be thwarted most of the time however, there are times when a revolt becomes successful.Heinrich Blls stor,y The Balek Scales, entails a seemingly unending battle between the rich and the poor as the latter would usually rise against the injustices that the former inflicts upon them and the society. However, it seems that the r ich are too powerful and influential to be folded easily. It remains uncertain for the tide of this larger-than-life battle to change as many still remain oblivious to the injustices that occur within society.Work CitedBll, Heinrich. The Balek Scales. A Walk in my World world(prenominal) Short Stories about Youth. Eds. Anne Mazer. New York Persea Books, 2000. 917.