Ruby Bates Essay

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“Evil rarely comes in the form of monsters, but rather in the form of relatively normal people who, for reasons of careers, ideology, or a desire for society’s approval, are indifferent to the human consequences of their actions.” Society shapes people by giving them a standard they believe must be met. People believe if they don’t meet those standards they will never amount to anything. The fiction character of Mayella and the nonfictional plaintiffs Victoria Price and Ruby Bates are influenced to claim they were raped when they never were. Society pushes them to go against to truth. Ruby Bates was described as being “a large, fresh, good-looking girl.” She was said to be shy but a fluent speaker when encouraged. Ruby was looked down on …show more content…

Victoria was shaped as an accuser because if she would have told everyone what she was really doing on the train everyone would have hated her. She would have been shunned for being a prostitute. Therefor she made up a scene so she wouldn’t have to live with what really happened. When Victoria made the accusation, she wasn’t thinking about what would happen to the boys she was thinking about her reputation. Her reputation was more important than the lives of those boys. Society has a major role in this because if you did something wrong you were looked down on and she didn’t want that to happen to her and her family. Mayella was shaped as an accuser because everyone turned their head to the abuse she was enduring. She felt as though if she made up a story she could have an excuse for the bruises and abuse yet she would still get the attention she deserves. She wasn’t thinking about his life only her own. Mayella felt that if she could get some attention maybe her life would be a little bit better and everything would stop. Society shaped this by not caring about the abuse and never trying to stop it. She didn’t have anybody to listen so she came up with a story to make everyone listen to her. Even though Mayella and Victoria are also victims of society it doesn’t make what they did right. They ruined the lives of other people to make their own

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