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Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Throughout TKAM, prejudice is prevalent towards characters such as Tom Robinson and the Cunninghams. Bob Ewell is the antagonist of the novel as Lee portrays people who are racist as “evil” and depicts figures like Atticus who are against racism as “good”. Bob Ewell’s hatred towards African-American people in Maycomb is extreme, which resulted in the death of Tom Robinson after successfully forcing Mayella through abuse to accuse Tom of rape. Prejudice results in social inequality especially between the whites and blacks, this is displayed in dialogue between Atticus and Jem in which he states “In our courts, when it’s a white man vs a black man. The white man always wins”, Lee uses juxtaposition to compare “a white mans word” symbolising privilege
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