The progressive divulgence of a society’s collective views and values, instigates individuals to independently develop a social conscience in distinction to one’s own moral outlook and attributes. Such that, each individual enforces a personalised judgement of one’s surrounding world and its perceived functionality. The novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee explores and accentuates the significance of embracing a social conscience within a rigidly prejudicial society. Highly reflective of Lee’s personal childhood, the novel exhibits a parallelism to the issues and struggles commonly confronted in the deep Southern states of America during the 1930’s case of the Great Depression and past confederate tensions. Hence, the novel condemns the injustice of such a society and thus challenges the morality of its ignorance. Lee explores the apparent divisions …show more content…
Divisions in society often induce a disparity of power, rights and entitlement contingent to the general values of the greater community. Harper Lee, distinguishes these fractures of the social structure in her novel through distinctions within class and race. Ultimately introduced through the novel’s contextual setting “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town…Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself”. Lee’s initial introduction to the community of Maycomb was severely mundane, fabricating an illusion of an idle town proceeding in a constant rhythm with no concerns. She further develops the town of Maycomb progressively through the novel by the introduction of distinct characters, until evidently a social structure is eventually established. Jem, a young boy, frankly states “There’s four kinds of folks in the