What Is The Conflict In The Help

The film, The Help, directed by Tate Taylor utilizes conflict between the African American and white characters to reveal the dominant attitude that the black race was inferior to the white race and were simply there to serve them. Through the black character’s perspectives, we get an insight into the conflicts and daily struggles the maids or ‘the help’ had to face on a regular occurrence. This constant conflict between the two groups represented reinforces the dominant attitude of racial prejudice that existed in the 1960’s American town of Mississippi.
Hillie Holbrook is representative of the main belief held by the white population and is used to reveal to the audience the dominant attitude that was prevalent in the time of Mississippi;