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Theme Of Anger In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Aristotle holds that anger is “a desire accompanied by pain for an imagined retribution on account of an imagined slighting inflicted by people who have no legitimate reason to slight oneself or one’s own.” (1-3). “Anger is a complex emotion since it embraces pain and pleasure; the pain is produced from injury while the desire of taking revenge is somehow results from the injury. Anger is a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed because of something wrong” (7) . It is also energy it can be positive or negative; if it is used positively, it can lead to a magnificient changes but if it’s used negatively it probably could be devastating. Aristotle emphasizes that anger is pleasant and in that sense constructive and linked to hope, so may be anger at the end is not a bad feeling it can give results and leads to a quite good change. To …show more content…

Tom’s Trial was inspired by the Scottsboro Trials of 1931; two white women accused nine black males of raping them. Lee wrote the novel in the Great Depression of 1930s, the novel was much related to the time, many of the events and characters have references in real life. To Kill a mockingbird a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960, the events of the novel utter the racial relations in Southern America, the anger of black against the white and vice versa.
“ Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” Lee started her novel with a quotation by Charles Lamb, she is perfectly choose the magnificent opening for her novel as the fact it is narrated from a child perspective by using this Lee tries to show the reader how God creates non-racists and pure people. Saul Mcleod explained that” Freud believed that when we explain our own behavior to ourselves or others we rarely give a true account of our motivation. This is not because we are deliberately lying. Whilst human beings are great

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