Treatment Of Women In To Kill A Mockingbird

The misguided consensus that females are inferior has become weaker and opposed by the public. Nevertheless, it seems that instead of men, women are regarded to be incapable and criticized for imperfection more commonly. Virtually, girls have faced such uncomfortable situations created by their surroundings all the time since their early age. “You do well in math, so what? When you enter higher grades, boys will surpass.” “Not slim enough…you should lose weight, or it’s difficult to have a boyfriend.” “Well, I know that you have a plan to have a baby…so maybe you’re not fit for this.” See, so much spite is trying to hurt women: gender discrimination, vicious remarks about their appearances and bodies, sexual harassment and physical abuse. Among

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell was subjected to physical abuse from her father Bob Ewell, one of her most familiar people in the world. In the court, Mayella declared that Bob was “tolerable”, but with hesitation. Then, Mayella paused and “looked around, down at the court reporter, up at the judge”, hoping to sidestep the question of if Bob had beaten her (Lee 184). Clearly, it can be deduced that besides being hit on the face and raped that night, Mayella had been harmed by intoxicated Bob in daily life consistently. Unfortunately, no one reached out to stopped Bob. Being a blatant and irritable racism and a father, he must have made anti-black bigotry permeate through his home and thus, Mayella was influenced imperceptibly and unavoidably. What is more, Bob required her to be at home instead of going to school, which made her desperately friendless. In other words, Bob turned his daughter into a discriminative girl and the “victim of ignorance” and the two aforementioned points were the main reasons for folk’s avoidance and peers’ unwillingness to make friends with her (Lee 205). She was overlooked. Therefore, nobody in the town noticed her helplessness and no assistance could be

According to CNN, on June 10, in Tangshan, China, a suitably attired woman and her three friends were repeatedly dragged by hair, kicked savagely, punched hard and even hit with bottles and chairs by a group of men after she rejected one of the men’s assaults (Gan). Witnessing the ladies being hit fiercely, struggling, screaming, groaning and uselessly fighting back, the people around them, including several men, who might be able to stop the abusers and even the restaurant owner, who was supposed to be addressing the problem, just stood aside and remained unmoved, even showing indifference on their faces. It can be understood that a person does not want to invite trouble when meeting incidents like this alone. However, in this situation, once a brave witness stood up for the ladies, others would also lend a hand because their sense of social justice deep inside the hearts would drive them to do so. Apparently, the aloofness of the crowd of onlookers rendered the abusers more vicious and left the hopeless victims to be