Explanations:
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.
Answer: These two prominent and striking lines have been quoted from the famous mock-heroic poem “The Rape of the Lock” which is written by Alexander Pope. Here Pope has severely attacked the rash judgement of the hungry judges to whom voracity is preferable to reason or rationalism.
Actually, these two lines depict the picture of the then judges, The judges used to sign the sentence hurriedly and consequently the people have sentenced hurriedly and consequently the people who were supposed to be guilty were hanged. In fact only for the whimsical behaviour of the judges sometimes innocent people suffered. During the reign of Queen Anne, the law of England was on the wane. It was a thing of mockery. Nepotism took the place of cosmopolitanism and as a result, the weak were suppressed. Alexander Pope wanted to mend to vices by castigation. We should never think that his satire is directed at an individual but at the whole.
Through this statement, Pope has reflected the corrupted court of the judgement of the then age and in this way he has presented himself as a humanitarian.
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