Atticus, Judge Taylor, Mr. Gilmer, Heck Tate, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson-what value or belief do you think each represents? How do these characters represent the tensions in the "moral universe" of the American South in the 1930s?

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Joyce Walsh

29 March, 05:13

Atticus, Judge Taylor, Mr. Gilmer, Heck Tate, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson-what value or belief do you think each represents? How do these characters represent the tensions in the "moral universe" of the American South in the 1930s?

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Wayne Beasley · Answer 1

These characters could be grouped into two more or less homogeneous groups. On the one hand Atticus, Mr. Gilmer, Heck Tate and Tom Robinson represent justice, equality, fairness and honesty. On the other hand, Judge Taylor, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell represent dishonesty, corruption, discrimination.

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These characters represent the tensions between the white and black people of the American South in the 1930s, the inequality between them not only in economic but also social terms. The black community suffered from a lack of rights, and it was culturally discriminated in all social contexts.