Hypocrisy

via her narrative. The author’s description on the Maycomb community is generally expressed in a negative manner. There are several issues about the Maycomb society that must be improved. Some of these issues have to do with classism, racism and hypocrisy. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee expresses her worldview about Maycomb County primarily in a pessimistic manner. One issue that arises in the community is classism. Classism is discrimination based on the belief that people belong

these Christian families, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons mainly, are going to church, they carry guns and shoot people on sight. In the story, Huck comes across the Grangerfords after crashing his raft, and he is very soon perplexed by the hypocrisy they show when it comes to their Christian faith. For example, when Huck is going to church with the two feuding families, one can truly see the opposing stances that the families proclaim, “Next Sunday we all went to church… the men took their guns

play and they remain alive in each act of this drama. However, their sense of purpose and values remain foggy and highly confusing till the end of the play. When we read this play, we see that the dramatist portrays each character to depict the hypocrisy of the contemporary Victorian society. Wilde deals with the inconsistency of nature of men here. None of the male characters are serious in life or earnest in nature. There is lack of moral values in each character. The characters contradict themselves

boy named Huck Finn. Satire and hypocrisy allow readers to understand his opinions on the two topics. Throughout the novel, readers witness the growth of Huck as he battles his ideas of religion and freedom during his many ordeals. His decisions that he made while on his journeys on the Mississippi were impacted by his longing for liberty and the idea of Christianity. In this novel, Twain exploits religion through characters' decisions and exposes their hypocrisy to satirize religion, a critical

remorse. He fully accepts his hypocrisy, even embracing it as he says to the other pilgrims, “And thanne my bulles shewe I, alle and some / Oure lige lordes seel on my patente / That shewe I first, my body to warente / That no man be so boold, ne preest ne clerk / Me to destourbe of Cristes hooly werk” (260). This deception that the Pardoner partakes in is what Chaucer finds issue with. Due to the open hypocrisy of the Pardoner the question is posed; is open hypocrisy any better than closed? Chaucer

very ethical man, and his speech showed that he was going to stand up for what he believed in. How does this speech engage the concepts of dialogic communication and ethics, as well as the role of shame? In this speech, Douglass confronts the hypocrisy of celebrating American independence while millions of African Americans remain enslaved. He reveals the sharp difference between the Declaration of Independence's promises of equality and freedom. A quote from Douglass that shows this is "What,

Imagine a world where evil and unjust actions are based on the color of skin; a world where some don’t even realize that they are prejudicing. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, these themes are present. People and how they commit evil, hypocritical, and unjust acts. We see these themes and great issues through the point of view of a child; the vigorous, youthful, elementary-aged Scout. Through this character Harper Lee shows the innocence of children, and what they go through in our

when writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin was to portray the evils of slavery while grabbing the attention of the North. Stowe portrays the evils of slavery by showing how slavery is dehumanizing, using religious and moral values, and revealing the irony and hypocrisy in southern people. Stowe portrayed the atrocities of slavery by showing the dehumanizing aspects of slavery. An example of the dehumanization of slaves is when slaves were teared apart from their families which was both mentally and emotionally

brilliantly weaved a story together from different personas, using this facade to hide behind. Chaucer uses his satire and his characters to challenge common culture and to attack church hypocrisy, the patriarchy, and class nobility. With his character, the Pardoner, Chaucer uses satire to reveal church hypocrisy to the common people. A majority of the lower class in 1300s England believed everything the church told them, but Chaucer saw friars and priests abusing their powers for their own personal

society he uses hypocrisy in the characters. Mark Twain's use of humor and hypocrisy were effective and made his point of view of society obvious. One of the many the social institutions targeted is greed in American society. Twain uses the characters Pap, The Duke of Bilgewater, and The King of France to