Prejudice in to kill a mockingbird
... defense. However, during those prejudicial times the jury had little choice but to find Tom Robinson guilty. Though Mayella and the Ewells won their case and Tom was sentenced to death, it was not like the victory they had hoped for. The Ewells were expecting that people would go with their racist upbringings and that they would have the full support of the town behind them. Since the whole town concluded after the case that the Ewells were lying scum, it was a hollow victory for them. Sexism is basically the separation of sexes, or the belief that one sex is better than the other. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” the character that most represented sexism was Aunt Alexandra. Have you ever been the subject of sexism? In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout was the subject of much sexism, from Aunt Alexandra, Jem, and the community. Every time Aunt Alexandra saw Scout, she tried to impress upon her that she had to be a proper lady and could not act like a boy. From Jem it wasn’t as apparent as it was coming from Aunt Alexandra, Jem’s comments ran along the lines of “Scout, you’re acting more and more like a girl everyday” and “Go away Scout, this is boy stuff.” Scout tried to overcome sexism by getting into fights and proving her strength. The way that Scout, Jem, and Dill felt toward Boo Radley was an example of xenophobia, or fear of the unknown. As H.P. Lovecraft once said “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of ...