To Kill A Mockingbird Evaluation Essay
I watched To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, on Thursday, September 29th in OBU’s Verser Theater. To Kill a Mockingbird was completely new to me going into it. I haven’t read or seen the story in any way before, therefore I had no idea what to expect from this performance. Judging from the last performance I’ve seen at OBU (Lord of the Flies) my expectations going into this play were very high. The quality of the last play I saw was higher than I initially expected from a small school performance. I did expect more from the quality of the play going in, considering the fact that To Kill a Mockingbird was produced by both OBU and Henderson as a joint project. But given that this was the first enactment of the play at OBU it does make sense that there were some mistakes. From what I gathered To Kill a Mockingbird was set in a time period in which civil rights was a major issue for the U.S. It follows the story of a
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Atticus seemed to me like the most down to earth, reasonable character. His ideology seemed to be the most justified when it comes to the issue of civil rights. Then we have Bob, from what I could tell the most unstable character of the entire performance. It seemed to be similar to a battle of good and evil, in the sense that there was a right side and a wrong side that even the law couldn’t comprehend at the time. To me, the purpose of this play was simply to portray racism of the time period. It also seemed to be a portrayal of how corrupt the justice system was, where one truth is weighed more heavily than other truths just based on the color of someone’s skin. The play also allowed us to view the “childhood ignorance” of the younger characters and their inability to understand why all these things were happening around them. I can’t really say whether or not this play succeeded or failed in its portrayal. Due to the fact that I have never read or seen this play
Atticus seemed to me like the most down to earth, reasonable character. His ideology seemed to be the most justified when it comes to the issue of civil rights. Then we have Bob, from what I could tell the most unstable character of the entire performance. It seemed to be similar to a battle of good and evil, in the sense that there was a right side and a wrong side that even the law couldn’t comprehend at the time. To me, the purpose of this play was simply to portray racism of the time period. It also seemed to be a portrayal of how corrupt the justice system was, where one truth is weighed more heavily than other truths just based on the color of someone’s skin. The play also allowed us to view the “childhood ignorance” of the younger characters and their inability to understand why all these things were happening around them. I can’t really say whether or not this play succeeded or failed in its portrayal. Due to the fact that I have never read or seen this play