Gender Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout the book, you can often see sexist beliefs. Written in the 1950s, based in the 1930s, Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird to challenge and expose many injustices occurring in society in those time periods. One of those injustices is Sexism. Sexism is the discrimination of someone based on their gender. In the 1930s, the sexism was usually towards women. Sexism often promote discrimination in jobs, discrimination from men to women through comments, and discrimination from every one through actions.

The clip from Claudine displayed stereotypes that welfare is for single black women who have multiple kids and no husband. Also, in Cinderella Man, if you were a white person receiving welfare it was a disgrace and you were looked down upon or disowned. Holly wood reflects public assistant recipients by making people feel ‘unworthy, undeserving, or like a charity case’. For instance in Cinderella Man, he literally had to beg the ‘worthy’ or rich people for money to help cover the rest of his bills. Recipients may feel dependent on a system that cares nothing for their safety and security. Welfare can reflect recipient view of work. They may feel if they work too hard, they were be forced to be independent and provide everything (food, shelter, affordable home) on own, therefore no longer receiving

The act of prejudice is one that everyone experiences. Whether it be, a person who is distributing hate, or a person who is receiving hate, everyone has contact with it. Although it is present all over the globe, it is prominent in the United States. Both in the present and the past, endless acts of discrimination have taken place and left a monumental impact on the country. The effect that it leaves can be seen in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. In this story, sexism, racism, and isolation, are demonstrated in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. As the story progresses, Lee compares these concepts to one another and uses them to make a statement about the problematic nature in America.

In today’s world power is everything. Power is having control over one’s life, and sometimes even controlling the lives of others. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” power is one huge factor in the story. You see when Tom Robinson, an African-American male, is wrongfully accused and later convicted of “raping” Mayella Ewell, a poor white woman, both his and her’s power is put to the test. This leads to two questions. Does gender, class, and race determine how powerful you are? And if it does; is Mayella powerful? In my opinion, she is both powerless and powerful. She is powerless when it comes to class and gender. Yet she’s powerful when it comes to race.

The first homosexual to speak out publicly in defense of homosexuality was a writer named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs on August 29, 1867. So while most people say the gay rights movement is something that's fairly recent, that is untrue. People have been judged for being homosexual for a very long time. Prejudice is something that can cause people to be violent, hateful, and act differently towards certain people to fit in, as shown in To Kill A Mockingbird and in society today towards supporters of gay and trans rights.

According to the United Nations Foundation, 62 million girls around the world are refused education and mentorship programs, such as Step Up, helps to maintain girls in school to get them closer to achieve their dreams. The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, focuses on the lives of Jem and Scout, as Scout retells three years of her childhood in the span of 372 pages. The story is about growing up in Alabama during the 1930s, after the Great Depression. During this era, there happened to be rampant discrimination, as such, there was also the same level of discrimination in the small fictional location of Maycomb County. Through the eyes of Scout, readers see how her father, Atticus, is very passionate and dedicated to his

In the morning of his first day in the Uncharted Forest, Equality 7-2521, realizes that he has woken up on his own for the first time in his life. The daily bell of the morning did not ring, and no one sought to wake him up. Then and there, Equality discovers himself as an individual, and not part of a whole. In that moment, he senses his past troubles, and worries are far behind him. He, for the first time in forever, is on his own.

Navigating Traditional Female Gender Roles in To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores how forcing traditional gender roles onto young children can cause rebellion, while not forcing those roles gives them the freedom to choose to follow traditional gender roles when they wish to. Through the characterization of Scout’s relationships with three important adults in her life--Aunt Alexandra, Atticus and Boo Radley--we see how a young girl responds to the pressures of traditional gender roles. Aunt Alexandra insists that Scout follows traditional female gender roles, which causes her to rebel. Aunt Alexandra is a very traditional middle aged women who feels Scout needs some guidance, especially about Scout’s appearance and what she wears.

Being a woman in the 1930s was rough. They were viewed as frail and dumb, and also expected to act and do the same as most men do. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is told from the perspective of a growing young girl named Scout, taking place during the Depression. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral expectations. Scout spends much of her time with her friend Dill and her brother Jem, where she struggles to be accepted and fit in.

The 1930s was a generation of male superiority, gender inequality, and lack of women representation. In Harper Lee’s southern gothic coming of age fiction, To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Aunt Alexandra embodies the typical Maycomb female, succumbing to the limited roles of women in the 1930s. On the other hand, the character Miss Maudie defies the code of such Southern lady- disobeying the stringent gender roles set for her- proving to readers that even though gender roles exist, they do not have to be followed. Gender inequality was present in the 1930s to such an extent that there was a lack of women representation. Women were expected to behave, dress, and act as if they were being watched under the clear lens of a camera. One wrong

Appearance is everything especially when you meet someone for the first time. Throughout history, a person’s skin color has either caused unity or division. Sadly, it is something that most people judge you on. Many people in our history and in present day society are very prejudice, meaning they discriminate against you solely based on a certain quality-such as the color of your skin. This is a form of racism because they believe that a person’s hue defines their value, causing them to believe so low in people with darker skin and so highly in people who are white. Not only are people prejudice on race but in gender as well. In this world, there has been a conflict in what women should do and what they shouldn’t do. This sense of prejudice is shown in the novel written by Harper Lee called, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. In this novel the main character’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer who deals with a case where he has to defend a black man, Thomas Robinson, who is being falsely accused by Bob Ewell for raping and physically abusing his daughter Mayella Violet Ewell. Atticus faces a lot of difficulties protecting this innocent white man because of the amount of discrimination going on in the 1930’s in Maycomb, Alabama. As well as this racism occurring in the novel, gender inequality is also shown in the way Scout’s actions are frowned upon by her family members because it isn’t what women should be doing according to them. In the Harper Lee’s novel there are many examples of

Why do people want to change the way we live our life? I don’t fit in, so what? In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Lee uses characterization and tone in order to convey the idea that in society every gender has to follow their code of conduct, consequently it restricts people from being themselves in order to fit in.

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, various characters are often forced into silence because of their race and where they stand in Maycomb County. Characters like Tom, Calpurnia, Dolphus Raymond, and even Miss Maudie are not given a proper voice in the novel but still demonstrate subtle heroic traits. Marginalized characters display as many heroic traits as voiced characters do, but are portrayed differently because of social class and race.

The “other” is someone(s) who are different than me and my group. Some of the “others” in Maycomb include: Boo Radley, Miss Caroline Fisher and Walter Cunningham. Race, class, and gender play a role in establishing the “other”. Gossip and superstition play a role in figuring out who society believes are the “other”. Stereotypes also play a role in determining who is an “other” because stereotypes are undefinable attitudes that people have about other people. Fear plays a role in “otherness” because fear causes people to say and do things that they normally wouldn’t do. A quote to support this is from chapter two: “The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of peculiarities indigenous to that region.”

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is an ideal display of feminism that takes place during the period of depression in the south. It portrayed the two kinds of women found in the south during this time, the women who were pro the feminist movement, and the average Southern women. Sadly some women mistakenly rebelled against the ideals of society, by just being themselves. Men and women were to conduct themselves as ladies and gentlemen, were men were expected to dress in suit and ties and women were expected to wear dresses and be courteous. Since southern towns were so sheltered from the liberal views of the rest of the world they had no chose but to abide by these gender roles.