To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Purity Vs. Immorality

Purity vs. Immorality. What do these two things have in common? But most of all how are they different? Purity is the freedom from adulteration or contamination, where as immorality is the state or quality of being immoral; wickedness. The only thing similar about these two ideas is they both involve mankind. Both of these topics are a choice within a man himself. Mankind must decide whether or not he wants to be pure or whether he wants to fall into immorality with the rest of the world. This is Lucy and Mina, one symbolizes purity and innocence while the other symbolizes immorality. Mina is the prime symbolization of purity and innocence; while Lucy symbolizes immorality. Lucy and Mina differ in many ways; their thought processes are on

She is well mannered and a quiet woman with little words. She doesn’t have to have all attention, just the sole attention of her husband, John Harker. Mina shows her quiet self whenever she is writing letters to her friend Lucy. Lucy is talking about all of her men and all of the people she has “in love with her” but Mina is just speaking to her as a sole friend and just wanting to talk to her about her life and what she has been up to. Mina was tainted whenever she had three men chasing her but she never gave into the immorality of three men, she just entertained the thought of having three men at once but quickly dismissed the idea. She settled down with John Harker and decided to marry him and start a new life with him. But Mina was soon corrupted, as innocence can be whenever darkness and immorality comes to play. She was fed off of by Dracula and made to do things she wouldn’t have done on her own. This symbolizes how darkness tries to corrupt the pure and

Lucy is the complete opposite of Mina in the retrospect of men. She wants to have three men chasing her; she wonders what could be so wrong about three men. “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?” Mina wasn’t saying this as a way to solve the problem without hurting anyone. She genuinely wanted three men to be her husbands. Lucy wanted to do the immoral things and that is what killed her. She fell for the trap of immorality and soon began to fall in it and eventually her immoral desires killed her. She wanted to be evil so bad that the thing she wanted the most cost her, her life. This symbolizes how darkness will always consume its victims and make them want more and more until eventually their wants get them