"To Kill a Mockingbird" is aimed at challenging prejudice and discrimination that took place during the 1930s. The characterisation of Mrs. Dubose provides development for central themes of prejudice and morality. The story relies on the importance of Mrs. Dubose’s character by exploiting a range of techniques such as emotive language, punctuation, metaphor, simile and personification. She was created by Harper Lee to contribute to the microcosm of American Society and criticise the wide-spread discrimination at that time, but also inadvertently guide Jem and Scout to maturity.
Scout describes Mrs. Dubose with superficiality, that regards her as demonic and witch like. Early in the novel, much of the dialogue and descriptions reveal …show more content…
Dubose also displays a meaning in the unreasonable judging of people according to their position in the social hierarchy. She is the representation of integrity as her dialogue contains or are, predominantly racist and sexist comments, and speaks out for all the community’s contorted and biased ideologies and prejudices.“Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam hole at low tide. Occasionally it would say, "Pt" like some viscous substance coming to a boil.” This description can be symbolically referred to as prejudice. The exaggerated powerful adjectives convey a sense of disgust towards it, and as well her mouth can be linked to as the mouth that speaks for everyone. It is described to “have a private existence” which can be symbolical of how people speak before they think and unconsciously offend them with harsh words. At this turning point in their lives, the children are offered different points of view: integrate in a world made up of different races and social classes or follow the mainstream community,which unjustly labels people different from …show more content…
Dubose is a dynamic character, her personality showed Jem and Scout that two aspects, positive and negative, can coexist within one person. Furthermore, her role in the novel brought Part One in union with Part Two and created a common denominator by which Atticus will approach Tom Robinson’s trial. " She was the bravest person I ever knew." Through Atticus’s perspective, the reader is brought to have a change of mind of Mrs. Dubose, her personality emerged with new and contradicting aspects. On the one hand, she is a cynical person who brands people based on her own prejudiced beliefs, on the other hand her bravery and determination are respected by Atticus, and consequently the reader. The battle of Mrs. Dubose connects the two parts of the book by foreshadowing the events at the trial, as Mrs. Dubose loses her life to the morphine addiction, the verdict of the trial will convict Tom Robinson as guilty. Lee based her fictional case on an actual historical event, the “Scottsboro Trial” and both take place in the 1930s. These two cases reflect the prevailing attitudes of the time and explore the social and legal problems by relating to an actual event in
Scout describes Mrs. Dubose with superficiality, that regards her as demonic and witch like. Early in the novel, much of the dialogue and descriptions reveal …show more content…
Dubose also displays a meaning in the unreasonable judging of people according to their position in the social hierarchy. She is the representation of integrity as her dialogue contains or are, predominantly racist and sexist comments, and speaks out for all the community’s contorted and biased ideologies and prejudices.“Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam hole at low tide. Occasionally it would say, "Pt" like some viscous substance coming to a boil.” This description can be symbolically referred to as prejudice. The exaggerated powerful adjectives convey a sense of disgust towards it, and as well her mouth can be linked to as the mouth that speaks for everyone. It is described to “have a private existence” which can be symbolical of how people speak before they think and unconsciously offend them with harsh words. At this turning point in their lives, the children are offered different points of view: integrate in a world made up of different races and social classes or follow the mainstream community,which unjustly labels people different from …show more content…
Dubose is a dynamic character, her personality showed Jem and Scout that two aspects, positive and negative, can coexist within one person. Furthermore, her role in the novel brought Part One in union with Part Two and created a common denominator by which Atticus will approach Tom Robinson’s trial. " She was the bravest person I ever knew." Through Atticus’s perspective, the reader is brought to have a change of mind of Mrs. Dubose, her personality emerged with new and contradicting aspects. On the one hand, she is a cynical person who brands people based on her own prejudiced beliefs, on the other hand her bravery and determination are respected by Atticus, and consequently the reader. The battle of Mrs. Dubose connects the two parts of the book by foreshadowing the events at the trial, as Mrs. Dubose loses her life to the morphine addiction, the verdict of the trial will convict Tom Robinson as guilty. Lee based her fictional case on an actual historical event, the “Scottsboro Trial” and both take place in the 1930s. These two cases reflect the prevailing attitudes of the time and explore the social and legal problems by relating to an actual event in