Bring out the significance of the metaphor of the "wheels" of justice in "Justice".

In Galsworthy's play, "Justice", a social tragedy, Falder, the hero of the story has been arrested for the crime of forgery from nine to ninety. Frome, the councel for the defence gives his evidences to make Falder free. He pleads to judge him as 'a patient' and not as 'a criminal' because he is a young fellow and he has done this act of forgery in 'a momentary solace', in 'a moment of aberration'.

              He first compares justice to 'a machine', then with a cage out of which no body comes out unhurt when one has fallen into it. Then he says that, "the rolling of the chariot wheels of justice over this boy began when it was decided to prosecute  him." The contention of Frome is that the 'wheels' of justice have been crushing and trampling Falder for the last two months. He means to say that he has already suffered in the prison. When he was prosecuted and handed over to the police, his misery began. The metaphor used here is that justice moves on in a chariot as it were and its wheels roll on over the criminal and crush them at the end. In Falder, the wheels of justice have already began to roll and he must be finished, if he does not make himself free.

              Goldsworthy is a realistic writer who writes plays with the deliberate purpose to protest against the problems of society. Here he makes a campeign against the system of justice, law, prison administration, particularly of solitary confinement. Here Galsworthy is trying to elaborate the real meaning of justice and he wants to make his readers understand that a man commits a crime 'out of a moment' but he has to pay all throughout his life. This metaphor of 'wheel' strikes "a crushing blow at a custom which continues to darken our humanity and good sense" of Galsworthy's time.