Shadowhunter's the clave and a look at real world history.
So this post has been in the works for a while and I had to
do a deep dive into a book that I was aware of due to some documentaries I
watched on History yet it was a very horrific read and some of these dialogues
could have been taken straight out of the history books, at 0.20 of this clip we see Izzy say “ that
everyone has a chose Alec, and I made mine.”
This was interesting
as it shows that she was willing to risk her life for a Seely as she knew that
this Seely was innocent and by Lydia sending him to the city of bones we see
that he would not make it out alive. So she got a team together to rescue him
and it was a mixed team of down worlders and shadow hunters as we see the alliances
start to form in this episode, we see that Alec isn’t willing to risk his plans
as it is because of Clary that a lot of this has happened.
But knows that he needs to get an advocate for his sister,
and we see that the Clave has a lot to answer for in a lot of ways it seems to
be very totalitarian in its ideology in having that the law is hard, but it is
the law. As I have discussed in a previous
post what is the point of having a bad law if it doesn’t do its job the shadow hunter’s
job is to enforce the law, but we see that they police themselves through the
clave.
This is the ideology of the shadow hunters, and we see that Lydia
does tell Izzy about the law preventing shadow hunters from fighting each other
this is true but what good is a law when it is badly policed or not updated
with the time is the question here. As
we see Izzy sees that Lydia is hiding behind enforcing the law, yet we see that
it is inflexible in its rigidity and it’s frustrating that Lydia is just trying
to do the right thing as we see that she and Alec know what is at stake yet we
know that she is from the Clave and therefore Izzy sees her as the enemy.
However, they are both right in their way that Izzy was leading an unsanctioned mission, yet she was at the same time doing the right thing. So, it is a very complex argument about how you would react in this situation as it takes guts to do what Izzy did.
Many people think they would do the right thing but what is
the right thing is the question here as we don’t know what it is and if you are
given power how far would you go, this is what this whole episode is about power
and how much power you are given. As I know that I would follow the orders.
However when we go back to Mangus talking to Alec about
taking the case on we see that he would have seen this history play out before
however, in reality, we have one very different perception we have that we are
taught about our role in historical events and even German children are taught
from a very young age about their role, there have been some events that have
been suppressed but we know the basics, and I see that this trial was very much
a kangaroo court where the outcome was already decided, however for face value
we see that they need to have a trial as we know that the clave is looking for
the mortal cup. But the question is at
what cost are they willing to take, and we see that they can go too far to get
the cup.
I do see some parallels to the Jerusalem trials as Eichmann
was a SS official and not a soldier and Izzy is in this position at the moment,
but in a massive difference to Eichmann, she was saving Melbourne from the City
of Bones, and that for a Seely generally does mean death as they would never survive
the questioning of the soul sword.
he knew quite well that he was by no means in the
classical difficult position of a soldier who may be liable to be shot by court-martial
if he disobeys an order to be hanged by a judge and jury if he obeys it is
dicey want to put it in his famous law of the constitution if only because as a
member of the SS he had never been subject to a military court but could only
be brought before a police and SS tribunal. ( Eckman in Jerusalem a lesson in
the banality of evil)
One major thing that I see with Izzy’s trial is that at this
point in the time they had the metal sowed so why did they need a full trial I
believe it was to show the clave’s power. This starts to show the complexity of the Shadowhunter’s
politics and how members of the clave see themselves as above the law, and this
trial seems to be a reminder of that as well.
It essentially is a show or Kangaroo court as we never see a
full trial again we do see questioning under the sword but never a full trial, this
was at a time when everyone was after the cup a relic that they thought was
lost to the shadow world, yet in having Jace and Clary give it back we see that it
helps Izzy, as well as the trial, started about Izzy’s actions and it progressed
to being about the clave showing their power and might.
We see that they need to show who is in charge and that is
through the trial, as when Clary and Jace give the cup back we see that Izzy is
free to go. Magnus has the epic line
about putting the cup on trial, as he would have seen the power the cup in the
wrong hands can wield, as he would have lived through the time of angels that
he mentions to clary when we see that she can put objects into paper or to pull
them out.
I see that absolute power corrupts so this is great that
when we see Alec become the inquisitor we see that he has Magnus at his side and
that this would balance his decisions, we also see that they have down-world
deputies. It makes sense to me and I have written about it in previous posts
about community policing.
We see that in the
trial Izzy doesn’t defend herself but admits to running the operation and this
was interesting in that she could have defended her actions in running it but
we see that she accepts the outcome of the trial as the inquisitor was more interested
in getting the mortal cup than seeking answers in this trial again we see
parallels in reality. So the question here is at what cost did the trial come
to her physical and mental health as well as Alec potentially giving up his bow
and arrow to Magnus. I see that this quote
again could apply to the clave.
The defense one felt could rise right away for the
criminal proceedings against Eckman in
this historic trial seems complete for the case for the prosecution was
established the facts of the case of word
Eckman had done though not everything the prosecution wished he had
done whenever in the dispute they had been established long before the trial
started and there had been I had been confessed to buying him over and over
again there was more than enough as occasionally he pointed out to hang him. (
Eckman in Jesurlam a lesson in the banality of evil)
We see that Mangus has seen the shadow hunters’ history play
out and he is referencing a time that was brutal for the downworlders the time
of angels when there were many more shadow hunters and they hunted down
worlders for sport and as Magnus says they were so rigid and bigoted that they
never dreamed of the shadow hunters asking a down worlder to be an advocate in
court.
However we see that this leads to some very interesting discussions around race in the show about the time of angels and the uprising as they don’t know about the uprising and this seems to be very close to the SS guard using what they called Langue rules to make what they were doing a little more palatable to those who would object to it, as if it was couched in polite terms it would prevent the system falling apart, however, the SS system was designed not to protect people but to protect the Soldiers and the SS police themselves and this is what the clave seems to be doing in this clip as well protecting themselves and not the system as in later seasons we see Simon say to Mia what is the point of having the system if we don’t follow it.
So this was designed to make things more “palatable for those
who were operating the machinery,” so what polite langue does the shadow world
have we see that it does have its own words as well as playing games with the langue we see that it can create manipulation and lies and this isn’t a great
way to run an organization as large as the clave.
Reading for this post
Civil law (legal system) -
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