The Linguistic Elements and Profanity, Merging into Realism
Profanity
“Whore Lady”, “Nigger”, “Damn”, all content from the 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer prize winning novel, that remains banned even in this modern-day society. The question remains. Is there a need to use expletives in literature? Many individuals believe that an author can convey an idea or feeling without using profanity, others…