Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

The insidiousness nay of diagonal is that it is a learnt behaviour propagated by ignorance and fear of the unknown. Moreover, accepting and internalising disadvantage fractures both(prenominal) individuals and communities. On the other(a) hand, experiences of prejudice can run short to a greater and more(prenominal) empathetic understanding of those who are marginalised in mainstream parliamentary law. Harper lee(prenominal)s bildungsroman novel To shovel in a Mockingbird (Mockingbird) reveals the flagitious acts that people inflict on others receivable to the holding of preconceive ideas and suggests that rampant prejudice destabilises sociable cohesion and irreconcilably damages the model of society. Lee also posits that the antidote to prejudice is basis and justice. Toni Morrisons novel, The Bluest Eye (Eye) explores the detrimental make that are associated with societys specialise definition of dish and the devastation wrought by the stultifying poverty that en traps people due to the colour of their skin. Together both of these texts reveal the destructive temper of prejudice on individuals and society and the need for justice and reason to combat this.\nThe blind bridal of rigid social expectations legitimises and perpetuates prejudicial 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 dint of the character of finder, a spring chicken girl whos irreproachable and optismic outlook on manners conceals the reality that is manifesting within her family, company 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 priggish Southern Bell which includes embody fine manner and eroding pretty dresses. However, Scout viewed this as pink penitentiary as she refus ed to conform to societies expectations of being a lady. The correlation of t...