As we have mentioned earlier, Lee’s book contains many motifs, which nowadays could have easily gained the author a fame of “racist”, “sexist” and even “male chauvinist”, if it was not up to the fact that “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been traditionally associated with promotion of left-wing agenda. This is the reason why we cannot refer to Lee’s novel as being deprived of literary value altogether, despite author’s affiliation with political Left. This can be explained by the fact that Harper Lee was growing up in time when there was no politically correct censorship, which nowadays causes the majority of White Americans to be afraid of their shadows, especially if they happened to have penises (“White male sexism”). Here is how Lee describes Tom Robinson: “Tom was a black-velvet Negro, not shiny, but soft black velvet. The whites of his eyes shone in his face, and when he spoke we saw flashes of his teeth. If he had been whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man” (Lee 196). It does not take a psychologist to recognize the mentioned passage as such that contains a subconscious sublimation of woman’s sexual desire. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is often being discussed as semi-autobiographical account of Harper Lee’s childhood, but not many readers realize that, whereas the character of Scout relates to author’s inner being as a child, the character of Mayella Ewell actually relates to Lee’s inner being as grown woman. In her novel, Lee succeeded in portraying Whites’ racial biasness as being counter-productive to the well-being of this nation. However, she did it at the expense of revealing the conceptual essence of modern feminism as psychiatric deviation.
Mayella’s strong sexual passion has resulted in her trying to have sex with Robinson. However, after he rejected her sexual advances, Mayella’s embarked on the impossible task of riding herself of her sense of guilt, for what had happened. She accused Robinson of having raped her, while slowly growing to believe in her own lies: “So he come in the yard an‘ I went in the house to get him the nickel and I turned around an ’fore I knew it he was on me. Just run up behind me, he did. He got me round the neck, cussin‘ me an’ sayin‘ dirt—I fought’n’hollered, but he had me round the neck. He hit me agin an‘ agin—” (Lee 182). Lee describes Mayella as not being particularly pretty, which can only mean one thing – she has too much testosterone in her veins. Women with the excessive amounts of testosterone in their blood, besides suffering from rapid growth of hair on their legs, also have a hard time, while trying to keep their animalistic urges under control. When we take closer look at most famous advocates of feminism, such as Leonora O’Reily, Charlotte Gilman, Kate Chopin and Ida Wells, we will be able to realise that even their external appearance radiates masculinity – rough facial features, short haircuts, fat stubby fingers, fascination with men’s clothing etc. Harper Lee herself has often been confused with a man, in her early days. It is not by pure accident that she mentions Scout continuously indulging in fights with boys. Thus, by describing the character of Mayella Ewell, Harper Lee actually provides us with the insight on feminists’ mentality, as individuals who simply cannot prevent their female sexually from assuming grotesque forms. Feminists are incapable of exercising a control over their sexual urges, despite their “high morality” and “progressiveness”. However, instead of recognizing such their inability as having purely biological essence, they discuss it in terms of “artificially created gender inequality”. Therefore, the most important existential problem, with which feminists have to deal on daily basis, is the fact that their physiology causes them to chose in favour of behavioural irrationality, despite their strive to adjust their behaviour to rational reasoning. In its turn, it often causes feminists to suffer from split personality disorder. Just as Maylla Ewell, who during the course of Robinson’s trial became hysterical and convinced herself that Robinson did rape her, modern feminists blame the fact that they should have been born as men, on men’s “sexism” and “male chauvinism”.
Conclusion
Given the fact that advocates of turning America into a “welfare state” now enjoy a monopoly on interpreting the semantic meaning of works of literature, within a context of educational process in this country, more and more Americans grow increasingly incapable of relying on their own sense of rationale, while facing various challenges, throughout their lives. Modern America reminds Soviet Union, before its collapse – what people say openly does not correspond to what they actually think, especially when issues of racial or gender relations are concerned. This is the reason why in this paper, we strived to analyse “To Kill a Mockingbird” from traditionalist perspective, as we believe that people’s intellectual integrity relates to their value as individuals. Just as philosophy, literature cannot be discussed as “thing in itself”. The work of literature is like a tree – it might please the eye, despite the fact that it produces poisonous fruits. There can be no doubt as to the fact that “To Kill a Mockingbird” is solidly written novel, reading of which many people find intellectually stimulating and simply pleasurable. However, while doing it, they become spiritually poisoned by neo-Liberal ideas, despite their own will – after all, we cannot help but to feel sorry for wrongly accused Robinson. By doing it, we undermine our own analytical ability, when it comes to getting a grasp of today’s reality. There is overwhelming evidence as to the fact that it is in the very nature of Black men to strive to rape White women, whenever is possible – yet, we are simply incapable of realising the practical implications of this fact, simply because of having read “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Therefore, we need to refer to Lee’s novel as to what it really is – a literary tool of depriving White Americans of their racial immunity. This is like a semi-poisonous mushroom, which can only be consumed after being subjected to prolonged boiling. Only individuals who posses a racially-biological worldview can derive pleasure out of reading it, without becoming intellectually poisoned, as a result.