How Does Mayella Ewell Have Compassion In To Kill A Mockingbird

The feeling of loneliness and desire is heavy enough to change a peer’s perspective on whether or not they are laudable. Humans are normally worthy of compassion, but once in a while, someone has done something so horrible that they do not deserve the satisfaction of empathy or sorrow. Mayella Ewell, a nineteen-year-old girl who demanded that Tom Robinson was guilty, and Tom Robinson, a black man innocently accused of raping a white woman, are the two most important people in the trial of 1935, in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Mayella was a perfect example of someone who did not merit benevolence. Atticus Finch was given the job to be the lawyer of Tom Robinson because he was the only man that would show equality towards Tom. The Ewell

Mayella’s court statements did not add up, and she would get bitter if Atticus or Judge Taylor found her lying. Mayella does not have the right to earn compassion because she unjustifiably tried to validate an innocent black man as guilty. Mayella wanting to put a black man’s life on the line just because she is uncared for and does not want to get caught as guilty and that does not give her the right to deserve compassion. The whole reason Mayella put Tom into court was that she kissed and hugged him one day after he helped her do some chores around the house. In the 1930s it was an enormous humiliation to kiss or have an intimate relationship with a black person if you were white. Tom Robinson tried to run away because he knew it was wrong, but the Ewell Family did not want to put shame on his family if anyone found out about Mayella’s incident. While Tom was in testimony he mentioned something that changed everything, “She reached up an’ kissed me ‘side of th’ face. She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a n*****. She says what her papa do to her don’t count… I (Tom Robinson) say Miss Mayella lemme outa here

She came from a very traumatic background with a passed mother, seven useless siblings, and a father who abuses her. Her father has very immense power over Mayella and she does all of the chores in the yard. She is a very hard-working young woman and tries her best to impress her father. Mayella was completely cut out of the real world and did not even comprehend the thought of kissing and hugging Tom. Mayella was seeking attention and possibly affection because it was never given to her by her father. Empathy went to those in harmful environments who did not fulfill the treatment they got, this is why other people could feel compassionate for Mayella because she did not ask or deserve how her dad and the village treated her. Mayella is distinguished from benevolence since compassionate individuals feel bad for those who are suffering,“ Compassion can be thought of as a mental state or an orientation towards suffering (your own or others’) (Jazaieri). Mayella’s inability to elope with her dad due to the time period and the fact that she's a gentlewoman makes compassionate individuals feel more empathetic for her. Women did not work backside then, so they had nowhere to rotate. On the other hand, Mayella, at the time period, was still in a higher power than a black man because she was white. She was trying to get an unheiarchial black man to be killed when she was the one in the