Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

The insidiousness nay of loss is that it is a learnt behaviour propagated by ignorance and fear of the unknown. Moreover, accepting and internalising preconceived idea fractures twain individuals and communities. On the other hand, experiences of prejudice can add to a greater and more empathetic understanding of those who ar marginalised in mainstream monastic order. Harper lee(prenominal)s bildungsroman novel To putting to death a Mockingbird (Mockingbird) reveals the flagitious acts that people inflict on others due(p) to the holding of preconceived ideas and suggests that rampant prejudice destabilises fond cohesion and irreconcilably damages the cloth of society. Lee also posits that the antidote to prejudice is discernment and justice. Toni Morrisons novel, The Bluest Eye (Eye) explores the detrimental make that are associated with societys compress definition of dish and the devastation wrought by the stultifying poverty that entraps people due to the colour of their skin. Together both of these texts reveal the destructive character of prejudice on individuals and society and the need for justice and reason to combat this.\nThe blind acceptance of rigid social expectations legitimises and perpetuates injurious stereotypes. Lee uses small township America in the 1930s to illuminate the harmful repercussions of narrow ideas about what constitutes womanhood. These ideas are relayed by the character of lookout man, a adolescent girl whos loose and optismic outlook on livelihood conceals the reality that is manifesting within her family, union and within society. Lees characterisation of Scout subverts the traditionalistic notions about being a Southern Lady, and this is shown when Aunt Alexandra takes on the role of teaching Scout how to be a correct Southern Bell which includes illustrative fine manner and wearing away pretty dresses. However, Scout viewed this as pink penitentiary as she refused to conform to societies expec tations of being a lady. The correlation of t...