To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates courage by certain characters' willingness to defend and sustain their own perspective. Also, true courage involves boldness and strength to resist other opinions, disregarding the pressure of others and their morals. False courage would include hypocrisy. Throughout the novel, Atticus and Mrs. Dubose are courageous in their acts, while Aunt Alexandra and the other hypocrites like Miss Gates, possess false courage. Atticus has his own philosophies that often contradict the …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 790 total…a person pretends that others think them to be courageous. Courage was a main theme that bound this novel together. The author conveyed a message that people with courage would succeed in real life. Atticus was depicted as a courageous man who succeeded in living up to his philosophy. Mark Twain once said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." This statement seems to stay consistent throughout this novel.