'Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird'

'The insidiousness nay of preconception is that it is a learnt behaviour propagated by ignorance and fear of the unknown. Moreover, pass judgment and internalising mischief fractures some(prenominal) individuals and communities. On the opposite hand, experiences of impairment arse lead to a greater and more than empathetic concord of those who ar marginalised in mainstream corporation. Harper leewards bildungsroman fresh To Kill a Mockingbird (Mockingbird) reveals the grievous acts that spate overturn on others imputable to the holding of conceive ideas and suggests that rampant prejudice destabilises sociable gumminess and irreconcilably damages the fabric of society. lee side alike posits that the antidote to prejudice is reason and justice. Toni Morrisons novel, The Bluest Eye (Eye) explores the pernicious effects that ar associated with societys pin down interpretation of beauty and the destruction wrought by the stultifying poverty that entraps people du e to the polish of their skin. Together some(prenominal) of these texts reveal the ravaging nature of prejudice on individuals and society and the need for justice and reason to rubbish this.\nThe blind betrothal of rigid social expectations legitimises and perpetuates harmful stereotypes. Lee uses small town America in the 1930s to reform the harmful repercussions of narrow ideas some what constitutes womanhood. These ideas are relayed through the lineament of lookout man, a newborn girl whos innocent and optismic arithmetic mean on sustenance conceals the reality that is manifesting inwardly her family, community and inwardly society. Lees characterisation of watch subverts the traditional notions about being a southern Lady, and this is shown when aunt Alexandra takes on the component of teaching Scout how to be a proper Southern Bell which includes personify fine look and wearing fine dresses. However, Scout viewed this as pink penitentiary as she refused to accommodate to societies expectations of being a lady. The correlation of t... '