Go Set a Watchman Themes

The Confederate Battle Flag was first flown in 1861. South Carolina stopped flying it outside its Capitol building in 2015. Slavery was abolished in 1865. Except in Mississippi, which didn't offici...

Are principles universal? Can a person change them over time? Or can principles that seem moral and just in one time seem archaic and old-fashioned in another? These are all questions we're forced...

Hoo boy. Go Set A Watchman shows us that issues of society and class in Maycomb are intense. Not since medieval England's feudal system has a society been so rigid when it comes to its social and e...

Society has a lot of rules, both written and unwritten. If you want to learn about some of the most important and imposing written rules in the United States, check out the Constitution and accompa...

You might think of a watchman has having a duty, whether it's to watch a fort or to patrol a shopping mall on a Segway. But the Watchman of Go Set A Watchman is a person's conscience, and that watc...

Race. It's a touchy issue, y'all. And it'll never be as simple as black and white; neither in the American South, nor anywhere else. Even if the characters of Go Set a Watchman didn't explicitly ad...

In the 1950s, tying the knot seemed a little more confining than it does today. Not in a Fifty Shades of Maycomb sense, but in the sense that in marriage, a woman had to submit to a man. In case yo...

African Americans weren't the only group fighting for their rights in the 1950s. The sexual revolution and a new feminist movement are on the horizon in Go Set A Watchman. If Harper Lee had kept wr...