Conscience

A wrong, or common definition, of conscience would be that little voice inside your head or a gut feeling. The correct definition of conscience would be a practical judgment of reason, whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In the movie A Time To Kill, Jake follows his conscience when he decides to continue to be Carl Lee’s lawyer. Many people told him that it was the wrong decision, but in his conscience he knew it was the right. Because of this decision, the audience can conclude that Jake has taken the correct steps to properly form his conscience.