Humaniora Scientia
Vol 6, No 2 (2020)

THE INFLUENCE OF SCOUT’S PERSPECTIVE OF THE COEXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL TOWARDS HER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Qoiriani, Anisa (Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Oct 2021

Abstract

The objective of this article is to understand the influence of the main character, Scout Finch’sperspective of the coexistence of good and evil toward her character development in HarperLee’s novel entitled To Kill a Mockingbird. The writer applied library research to analyze thefindings. Some theories used to analyze the data are Discrimination, Post-structuralism, andPsychosocial. Moreover, the approaches used in this research are sociological approach,psychological approach, and post-structuralism approach. Good and evil do coexist in societyand witnessed by a child named Scout Finch. She is a White who lives within a racismneighborhood towards Black people. As a child of a White lawyer, Scout grows excellently evenwithout a presence of a mother. Some events happen that make her question about definition ofgood and evil. It develops Scout’s perspective towards the coexistence of good and evil thatinfluence her character development.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

humaniora

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities

Description

This journal covers some scopes of language study including linguistics, literature, translation as well as English language teaching (ELT). ...