To Kill A Mockingbird Integrity Analysis
Believe it or not, individuals have trouble seeing black from white. Mankind has the ability to develop an immoral sense of integrity suited to their needs, yet morally accept their sense of integrity. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates this illusion portrayed by a Southern society. By using a 1930's Southern point-of-view, Harper Lee demonstrates that integrity not only has the power to unite humankind, but to divide humankind as well.
The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, in a small Alabama community is constructed from the contradictions of Christianity and prejudice. Through prejudice and bigotry, the Southern society builds a strong sense of integrity that masks their immoral prejudice. The Southern culture of Maycomb derives from the antebellum culture of Christianity and slavery. The morals of slavery greatly clashed with the morals of Christianity. While Southerners desperately needed slavery, they also needed to maintain their Christian sense of integrity that stated all of humankind must be …show more content…
Atticus's sense of integrity is constructed from his morals of truth and justice rather from prejudice and bigotry. Atticus, no matter what stands in his way, follows his individually moral sense of integrity. In Atticus's final argument, he said, "I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts, and in the jury system- that is no ideal to me, it is a living working reality..In the name of God, do your duty. " Atticus is saying that the justice of the court will only prevail if the jury member's individual sense of integrity is maintained; unbiased, and unprejudiced. He is attempting to make clear the great injustice prejudice is doing. Unfortunately, the jury's Christian need to justify their immoral sense of integrity is far stronger than justice is. Atticus's sense of integrity unites mankind. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus unites the black community with his
The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, in a small Alabama community is constructed from the contradictions of Christianity and prejudice. Through prejudice and bigotry, the Southern society builds a strong sense of integrity that masks their immoral prejudice. The Southern culture of Maycomb derives from the antebellum culture of Christianity and slavery. The morals of slavery greatly clashed with the morals of Christianity. While Southerners desperately needed slavery, they also needed to maintain their Christian sense of integrity that stated all of humankind must be …show more content…
Atticus's sense of integrity is constructed from his morals of truth and justice rather from prejudice and bigotry. Atticus, no matter what stands in his way, follows his individually moral sense of integrity. In Atticus's final argument, he said, "I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts, and in the jury system- that is no ideal to me, it is a living working reality..In the name of God, do your duty. " Atticus is saying that the justice of the court will only prevail if the jury member's individual sense of integrity is maintained; unbiased, and unprejudiced. He is attempting to make clear the great injustice prejudice is doing. Unfortunately, the jury's Christian need to justify their immoral sense of integrity is far stronger than justice is. Atticus's sense of integrity unites mankind. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus unites the black community with his