Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Harper Lee uses allusion in “To kill a Mockingbird” to expose the hypocrisy of the society in Maycomb county. An example is where Miss Gates says “There are no people better than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn’t see that is a mystery to me”. In this quotation Harper Lee alludes to the holocaust and…

Harper Lee satirises the white community by juxtaposing the black and white communities reaction to Tom Robinsons court case. The contrast shown is that the black community shower Atticus with gifts, they provide a large breakfast for him that is compared to the food the president has in the White House. Where as the white…

Harper Lee uses the mockingbird as a recurring motif throught out ‘To kill a Mockingbird’. The symbol represents a character who has had there innocence destroyed by evil. An example of a character who may be a mockingbird is Atticus. Atticus is a mockingbird as he tries to help the community and even takes the…

In the Boo Radley passage Scout and Jem discover a knot in a tree, where they find random objects that have been placed inside the tree hole. They found chewing gum, a medal and a pocket watch. But one day they go to the tree and de that it has been filled in with cement.…

From Scout’s and Jem’s experience in the courtroom we can learn that there is a lot of racism and prejudice towards the black community. The black men and women had to wait for the White people to enter the courtroom first, and most of them had the back seats. The courthouse is very segregated and…

The Maycomb county court house is described as an ancient form of architecture preserved to keep every scrap of the past. It is described as having greek columns too heavy for their burden, this portrays huge white greek columns holding something weaker. The greek columns are said to clash with the clock tower which is…

Harper Lee shows her moral position in to kill a mockingbird through the use of characters. An example of a character is Atticus, because he stands up for Tom Robinson, who is a black man that is claimed to have raped a white women. At the time this was written there was a lot of…

One of the devices Anthony Burgees uses in a clockwork orange is modification of language, by using English and Russian slang that he calls “Nadsat”. The youth only talk this way but it is not all slang there is a variety of sophisticated language in there like Shakespearean English. However, there are childish words and…

Pride and shame is explored in To Kill a Mockingbird, in one example as a social code for the youth. Dill teases Jem into doing a dare which he is scared of. That is to run and touch the wall of the Radley’s house, which involves running through the Radley’s garden. Jem does not want…