Compare And Contrast Scottsboro Trial And To Kill A Mockingbird

Imagine that your living in the 1930s, you’re a white woman, and you had just gotten “raped” by a black man or group of black men. This exact scenario happened in the critically acclaimed book To Kill a Mockingbird and in the real-life court case deemed the Scottsboro trial. Which in both the book and the court case, the characters, and people were shaped and influenced by society to become victims and accusers. This paper is going compare and contrast how the fictional character Mayella and the non-fictional plaintiff Victoria Price and Ruby Bates as painted victims and accusers by society.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Mayella Ewell is a victim of rape that never happened, which is similar to the Scottsboro trials of Victoria Price.

In To Kill a Mockingbird Mayella Ewell is a victim of society, some examples of this are that her family is very poor, her father is a drunk who beat and raped her at least once, and she took over as the mother figure of the family when their mother died. All of these examples are somewhat familiar to what makes Victoria Price a victim of society as well, such as , she was beaten and raped by her husband, she was very poor, and she had to take care of her mother when she had gotten injured, and she was a prostitute who had a reputation of breaking up marriages. And there is another thing that made both of these people victims of society and it is that the townspeople and the law turned a blind eye to them because they were trying to do what they had to in order to survive. Even though Mayella and Victoria are victims, so is Ruby Bates

In To Kill a Mockingbird Mayella is shaped by society to be an accuser during Tom Robinson’s trial because she had accused him of rape only because she was caught having a friendship with him which was unacceptable because he was black, and what made it worse for Mayella was that Tom Robinson declined that friendship because he didn’t want to be killed, which is why she accused him of rape. While in the Scottsboro trials, Ruby Bates was shaped by society to be an accuser because she during the trial she just went along with whatever Victoria Price was saying because she didn’t want to ruin her reputation any more than it already had been, even though at the end of the trial she testified that the Scottsboro boys didn’t do anything and that everything that supposedly happened was all a lie. Even though Mayella and Ruby are accusers, so is Victoria Price because during the Scottsboro trial she was the one who was making all of the accusations during the trial. But unlike Mayella making accusations because of being rejected and Ruby Bates just going along with what Victoria said, Victoria made accusations for fame and attention because she thought what she was doing was