![]() ![]() Aunt Alexandra’s missionary circle tea highlights the double standards. The prejudices of the people of Maycomb is so entrenched that they do not realize how hypocritical they are. Tom Robinson is found guilty, in the face of very strong suspicion that his accusers are lying, because he went against the accepted position of a Negro and dared to feel sorry for a white person. People such as Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond and, to a lesser extent, Maudie Atkinson, are persecuted because they do not conform. It is not to just the matter of the present racial prejudices which is present in Maycomb but the intolerant, narrow, rigid codes of behavior that most townspeople wish to impose on others. The cruelty that people inflict upon others by the holding of pre-formed ideas, ’the simple hell people give other people’, as Dolphus Raymond puts it. Instead of facing Atticus, he tries to take revenge on the children, and even he does not have the character to face them in daylight, but strikes in the darkness. She wins her fight and Atticus called her ’the bravest person’ he knew.Atticus wants the children to realize that courage is not ’a man with gun in his hand’.Īn example of a man totally without courage is Bob Ewell. Dubose also chooses to do this when she attempts to rid herself of drug addiction even though she knows she is dying. ![]() It cannot be easy to be made to look like a coward.The most difficult form of courage to possess is the courage to take on and carry through a task which is certain to end in the futureAtticus has to do this when he defends Tom Robinson. Atticus shows the same kind of courage in facing the mad dog, even though he was a gun in his hand.Moral courage Scout has to find courage in order to face her friends without retaliating, when they call her father names. Required to overcome childish fears Running past the Radley Place, or returning there to fetch the trousers that Jem caught on the fence. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |