Champion of tolerance or inveterate bigot?: a Study of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
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Título: | Champion of tolerance or inveterate bigot?: a Study of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman |
Autor/a: | Sanmartín Cao, Bárbara |
Dirección/Titoría: | González Groba, Constante |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía |
Palabras chave: | Atticus Finch | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | Go Set a Watchman | Racismo | |
Data: | 2018-10-30 |
Resumo: | To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman are the only novels written by the acclaimed American writer Harper Lee. Mockingbird, one of the most important novels in modern American literature, was published in 1960. On the other hand, although Watchman was published in 2015 and it seems a sequel of the story, it is actually a draft written before To Kill a Mockingbird. This novel became controversial because of suspicions that somebody was taking advantage of a senile Harper Lee to make a quick buck, and also because it portrays a totally different Atticus Finch. In this project I am going to focus on the protagonist’s father Atticus Finch, a lawyer who in Mockingbird tries to bring up his children with solid values and an unfailing morality based on understanding others’ points of view and situation. Moral values run around the battle between good and evil which is represented by the trial against the black Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a white girl and is defended by Atticus. This lawyer is the moral root of his family and the moral hero of the novel’s setting, Maycomb, a fictional town in Alabama. The turning point of this character comes in the second novel, where his stand on the racial problem is not the same as in To Kill a Mockingbird. Many points could be chosen for analysis in these two novels. In my project, in addition to the necessary attention to the socio-political background of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman (the Great Depression, the 1930s, and the 1950s respectively), I will discuss a cultural point of view, taking into account social classes and education; how social classes and the issue of race in the south was used to fix the identity of the characters, as individuals and as community. These issues will be illustrated by the character of Atticus Finch in the two novels, the study of how he changes from American hero to supremacist as well as the controversy that it creates from a personal point of view |
Descrición: | Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23790 |