The white women of the town in America in no way resemble racism. Discuss.
In his film ‘The Help’, the director Tate Taylor demonstrates the racism that was issued in the 1960’s of Mississippi and how racism deeply affected the families and that people of the present day must condemn it. In the film, racism is a part of the ordinary lives of the white women that live in Jackson, some chose condemn it, like Skeeter and Celia, enforce it, like Hilly or accept it, like Charlotte and Elizabeth. Taylor characterization of the actors in ‘The Help’ show the audience that racism is wrong and should be despised.
Hilly and her “disciples” clearly personify racism in the fact of the way they treat the African American maids with inferior and the way …show more content…
Through people like Charlotte and Elizabeth, the director shows that there are people may not fully believe in racism but simply lack the courage to say enough is enough. Throughout the film we see Elizabeth as a coward. We see this in her because every time we hear Elizabeth say something, Hilly is there to give a dirty look or to nudge and kick her in a way to tell Elizabeth to shut up. If Elizabeth any courage at all she would’ve said at least a nudge back. We see it worse when Hilly fires Aibileen. This shows that Elizabeth is a racist, but to an extent. An extent which she doesn’t have the courage to stop at. There is also Charlotte. We only see one big mistake with Charlotte, and that’s firing Constantine. She lacked the courage to stand up to President of the DAM (daughters of America) and thus “had” to fire her. This makes the audience feel disappointment in both characters and possibly sympathy because they have no self-courage. This proves that in the film there are people that, although don’t fully believe in racism, but don’t have the bravery to stand up to
In his film ‘The Help’, the director Tate Taylor demonstrates the racism that was issued in the 1960’s of Mississippi and how racism deeply affected the families and that people of the present day must condemn it. In the film, racism is a part of the ordinary lives of the white women that live in Jackson, some chose condemn it, like Skeeter and Celia, enforce it, like Hilly or accept it, like Charlotte and Elizabeth. Taylor characterization of the actors in ‘The Help’ show the audience that racism is wrong and should be despised.
Hilly and her “disciples” clearly personify racism in the fact of the way they treat the African American maids with inferior and the way …show more content…
Through people like Charlotte and Elizabeth, the director shows that there are people may not fully believe in racism but simply lack the courage to say enough is enough. Throughout the film we see Elizabeth as a coward. We see this in her because every time we hear Elizabeth say something, Hilly is there to give a dirty look or to nudge and kick her in a way to tell Elizabeth to shut up. If Elizabeth any courage at all she would’ve said at least a nudge back. We see it worse when Hilly fires Aibileen. This shows that Elizabeth is a racist, but to an extent. An extent which she doesn’t have the courage to stop at. There is also Charlotte. We only see one big mistake with Charlotte, and that’s firing Constantine. She lacked the courage to stand up to President of the DAM (daughters of America) and thus “had” to fire her. This makes the audience feel disappointment in both characters and possibly sympathy because they have no self-courage. This proves that in the film there are people that, although don’t fully believe in racism, but don’t have the bravery to stand up to