The Theory of Moral Development

This essay will talk about the Theory of Moral Development. Lawrence Kohlberg developed the theory. He believed that people develop morals in stages on his scale of 1-6. Three characters from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee who illustrates Kohlberg's theory of moral development are Scout, Atticus, and Jem Finch. Scout Finch, appears to be on level 2 of Kohlberg's moral scale. Scout sees eye to eye with other people. When she first meets Dill …

…goes through different levels of morality and in this book there are three that stand out. Jem started to display higher levels of behavior as he got older in this book. Right around his age is when you would step up to the next level of the scale. There is a spread of common levels of morality shown in the story. It looks as though most of the Finches will reach a level of 4 to 5.