The Role Of Scout In Miss Maudie

By the end of the novel scout had matured slightly and while she wasn’t going to go completely for the southern womanhood role she was much more at peace with the fact she was a girl. by the end of the book she had found positive role models in Miss Maudie and Calpurnia who had both put being a woman into perspective and an admirable light when she looked at how they lived their lives, and she had stopped being so bothered when Jem called her a girl because she was no longer spending all her time following him around looking to be included. Scouts gradual maturation gives the reader an awareness of lees use of the adult scout’s voice intertwined with the younger characters voice, the reader is able to view her maturing as the …show more content…
For viewers of the play at the time shylock would’ve been a character to dislike and to laugh at the misfortune of, on the other hand the character of tom Robinson that harper lee creates could’ve been seen as the villain of the novel by someone from a time when racism was accepted, he is obviously seen as a victim and a character to support. The difference between the two texts is that while both treatments of the characters of Shylock and Tom Robinson would be seen as wrong from a modern perspective lee created the character to challenge the behaviour and highlight problems with communities blinded by prejudice whereas Shakespeare created shylock in order to laugh at and further demonise Jewish