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To Kill A Mockingbird Feminist Analysis

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Although men may hold the primary bias toward women, it is fair to say that the women, however, “perfected” it. From the men around Scout, readers can see that they mostly just made earnest advises on Scout’s need of feminine behavior, but it was the women who emphasized on her lack of decency and aggravated her suffering on the “education of ladyship”. Aunt Alexandra, a textbook paragon of the ideal “southern belle”, the kind of woman who wore a corset even under her bathrobe; she had been Scout’s “tormenter” since the death of her sister-in-law (the Finch kids’ mother) and took on the role of instructing moderate behavior to the children. To her, the boyish attires of Scout was a disgrace that showed how “lack of discipline” the Finch family
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