García Ramallal, Uxía2020-12-232020-12-232019-11-05http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24090Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2019-2020Told through the eyes of the rebellious and witty Jean Louis Finch (nicknames Scout), To Kill a Mockingbird develops the coming-of-age journey of this six-year-old girl who lives in the fictional town of Maycomb (Alabama) with her elder brother Jem and their father Atticus, an honorable attorney who struggles to prove the innocence of a black man unfairly accused of raping of a young white woman (Mayella Ewell), while at the same time confronting racial prejudices and taking care of his children with the help of Calpurnia, the black housekeeper. Most scholars have centered their attention on the novel’s racial, legal and ethical themes. However, Scout’s defiance of the conventional gender stereotypes within the prejudicial Maycomb’s society deserves further in-depth examination. Robert Mulligan’s 1962 film adaptation can help in this. This project will consist of a comparative analysis between the main female characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and Robert Mulligan’s film adaptation (1962), focusing on Scout Finch, Calpurnia, and Mayella Ewell and on the social and racial aspects that separate the three of them. The aims of this research will be, firstly, to shed light on the potential difficulties that arise when adapting literary works to film, and secondly, to understand what being a woman in a man’s world entailed, according to Lee, in the context of Southern patriarchal society in the USA during the years of the Great Depression (1930s). Gender inequality should not be studied as exclusively dependent on sex. My work will include a critical overview of those factors such as race and social status that may interact with gender as a ground for discriminationengTo Kill a MockingbirdHarper LeeScout FinchMayella EwellCalpurniaPersonaxes femininosRobert MulliganDiferenzas raciaisXéneroSur dos Estados UnidosMaterias::Investigación::62 Ciencias de las artes y las letras::6202 Teoría, análisis y crítica literarias::620202 Análisis literarioMaterias::Investigación::62 Ciencias de las artes y las letras::6203 Teoría, análisis y crítica de las bellas artes::620301 CinematografíaMaterias::Investigación::63 Sociología::6309 Grupos sociales::630909 Posición social de la mujerMaterias::Investigación::63 Sociología::6310 Problemas sociales::631006 Relaciones ínter-racialesMaterias::Investigación::59 Ciencia política::5906 Sociología política::590601 Derechos humanosbachelor thesisopen access