To Kill A Mockingbird Gender Prejudice Analysis
Gender Prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird
Every society throughout history has their own differences in gender prejudice. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the town of Maycomb has a strong influence of gender prejudice. Scout, a six year old girl, doesn’t feel the need at act like a “normal” girl. The people in Maycomb often judge her for her tomboy lifestyle, of wearing overalls, playing with the boys, and her “boyish haircut”. Scout is defiant and is set against maturing into the standards of society. The town is pressuring and judging Scout, into being the girl they expect her to be. The town shows their prejudice of femininity throughout the book because, they judge her for her choice of clothing, and the things she does, they also try to pressure her into being more like a proper girl and do more “girl like” things.
The town of Maycomb, Alabama, is more on the traditional side. The town is filled with older folks, who grew up with caucasian lifestyles, passed on by generations. Aunt Alexandra is a traditional woman who believes girls should act like young woman instead of “acting like a boy”. She invites over the women from church over for tea, to discuss the missionary objectives of the Maycomb Alabama Methodist Episcopal Church. All the woman at …show more content…
Jem often said throughout To Kill A Mockingbird that Scout was acting like a girl, and “was acting like a girl more and more everyday”. This is another example of gender prejudice because Jem is stereotyping girls in a way that they assumed and imagined things and that’s why “people hate them” because they “think” like that. Scout gets judged for either not acting like a girl or acting too much like a girl; either way she’s going to get told what to do or get judged for being
Every society throughout history has their own differences in gender prejudice. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the town of Maycomb has a strong influence of gender prejudice. Scout, a six year old girl, doesn’t feel the need at act like a “normal” girl. The people in Maycomb often judge her for her tomboy lifestyle, of wearing overalls, playing with the boys, and her “boyish haircut”. Scout is defiant and is set against maturing into the standards of society. The town is pressuring and judging Scout, into being the girl they expect her to be. The town shows their prejudice of femininity throughout the book because, they judge her for her choice of clothing, and the things she does, they also try to pressure her into being more like a proper girl and do more “girl like” things.
The town of Maycomb, Alabama, is more on the traditional side. The town is filled with older folks, who grew up with caucasian lifestyles, passed on by generations. Aunt Alexandra is a traditional woman who believes girls should act like young woman instead of “acting like a boy”. She invites over the women from church over for tea, to discuss the missionary objectives of the Maycomb Alabama Methodist Episcopal Church. All the woman at …show more content…
Jem often said throughout To Kill A Mockingbird that Scout was acting like a girl, and “was acting like a girl more and more everyday”. This is another example of gender prejudice because Jem is stereotyping girls in a way that they assumed and imagined things and that’s why “people hate them” because they “think” like that. Scout gets judged for either not acting like a girl or acting too much like a girl; either way she’s going to get told what to do or get judged for being