By Harper Lee. Previous Next. Fear Click the themes infographic to download. Questions About Fear Tom is disabled and seems like a nice, unthreatening guy. So why is Maycomb so scared of him? Why is Mayella so frightened on the witness stand? Who is frightening her? What does the novel say about what things should be considered scary, and what shouldn't?
What's the relationship here between fear and race? A2S4 He felt profoundly betrayed when Regan and Goneril both agreed to his lack of need for the guards and sided with each other against him.
When he was left to freeze out in the storm, he finally understood what was going on; his daughters did not love him as much as they said they did and fought him with the power he gave them.
A3S4 They did not only deny him their castle, which he had given to them, but also ordered that he had no shelter at all in hopes he would die in the storm. By this time he had not….
Vanessa Yu Mrs. The author conveys that possessing the qualities of morality, sympathy and courage, a person can overcome a prejudiced and racist society and find the good in the most unlikely and unexpected people. The author establishes her purpose using characterization and pathos. Taking place in the early s, the townspeople experience the Great Depression and racial segregation.
At first when a boy said something rude to her about her father she punched him. Atticus tells Scout that instead of fighting with someone try fighting with your head. He wanted her to learn mental courage and to fight herself to do the right thing. Tate tells Atticus that it would not be right to tell everyone that Boo has saved his children because it would cause Boo to receive unwanted attention that he is not used to. Boo Radley did the right thing, saving Scout and Jem, and Heck Tate thinks he deserves to have his privacy.
Tate decides to hide that Boo saves the children to prevent him from becoming the center of attention in town. Boo is symbolized as a mockingbird that has been wrongfully hurt by the people in town.
Throughout the book, Boo is…. This is ironic because at first, John did not want to testify in Salem either He accused Tom of raping his daughter, Mayella, because he was ashamed that his daughter attempted to kiss a black man. Black south Africans are treated different from the white South Africans. Absalom weeps because he is scared of the questions and what their answers could be.
He doesn't know why he shot Jarvis because he knew it was the wrong thing to do, but there was nothing else to do. He was scared that Jarvis would get them into trouble; he had no idea that Jarvis was a man who fought for native rights. He is scared of himself and scared that since he killed a man, which in his and his family's mind is the worst thing one could do, what more he could do to other people, including his father, and his pregnant girlfriend.
Parents begin to fear even their children, who are capable of landing them in jail. This establishes relationships built on distrust, further distancing people and disabling the ability to form social bonds. This is best portrayed in the scene where Winston visits his neighbors, the Parsons. Parsons is visibly shaken the whole time, as her children keep a watchful eye over their conversation. It seems ridiculous to fear children, especially your own children, but as the kids had their own father thrown into jail, it makes sense for Mrs.
Parsons to feel afraid and distanced from her children. The most glaring example of racism in the novel is when Tom Robinson is convicted of raping Mayella Ewell just because he dared to feel sorry for her.
The result of this racial prejudice leads the people of Maycomb to be very hypocritical and have double standards. They say they have sympathy for other races in other countries but then they treat the ethnic minority in their town with great disrespect. The prejudice of the town is produced from fear, historical context and their social conditioning.
They are afraid because of ignorance and not being able to understand new and different things. For example, Scout is harassed and becomes the target of insults when her father decides to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. This is a plajurized essay. The hate felt towards black people by the majority of the Maycomb citizens causes them to bother and harass those who attempt to befriend the black people. Forgive me for stealing this essay. Scout realizes that the only reason she must undergo this torment is that her father is defending a black man, which has become taboo because of the corruption that racism has caused in many people.
These instances show that humans are naturally vain and that, occasionally, their vanity can rule over their lives. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, contains several examples of vanity and its consequences; the most notable example is John Proctor and his refusal to taint his name.
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