CONSCIENCE OF THE COURT

CREATED BY GRACIE HANCOCK

CAPSULE SUMMARY

• "Conscience of the Court" retells a series of events involving
• Laura Lee Kimble, an African American maid, and her employer,
• Mrs. Celestine Beaufont Clairborne. Both characters are accused
• by the same man, Clement Beasley; Clairborne is accused for not making
• good on a loan and Kimble is accused of beating Beasley, yet Clairborne

CAPSULE SUMMARY CONTINUED

• never makes an appearance in the story because she has left town.
• Kimble and Beasley recount their versions
• of events and eventually, as the story unfolds, it is revealed that
• Beasley lied about the due date of the loan and the charges against
• Kimble are dropped.

ENDING/REASONING

• I like how the story left off because
• everyone got what they deserved in
• the end. Kimble, although she never heard
• from Mrs. Clairborne, was not sent to jail
• for a crime she didn't commit.

ENDING/REASONING CONTINUED

• Beasley was shown for who he truly was,
• a liar and a thief. It was a just finish to
• a moral story, the moral being the truth
• will always come out in the end.

THE PROTAGONIST

Jessica Lange as "Mrs. Clairborne"

THE ANTAGONIST/ KIMBLE'S FOIL

Fred Gwynne as "The Judge"