To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet?
to kill a … Genres Scholars have characterized To Kill a Mockingbird as both a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman. The grotesque and near-supernatural qualities of Boo Radley and his house and the element of racial injustice involving Tom Robinson contribute to the aura of the Gothic in the novel.[36][37] Lee used the term “Gothic” to describe the architecture of Maycomb’s courthouse and in regard to Dill’s exaggeratedly morbid performances as Boo Radley.[38] Outsiders are also an important element of Southern Gothic texts. One scholar notes that Lee challenges every authority in Maycomb: the school and its teachers, the criminal justice system, and the religious establishments. Yet Scout still reveres Atticus as an authority above all others, because he believes that following one’s conscience is the highest priority, even when the result is social ostracism.[39] However, scholars debate about the Southern Gothic classification, noting that Boo Radley is in fact human, protec