Moral ambiguity

Albert Camus's The Stranger, Meursault is a morally ambiguous character, and this ethical indistinctness plays a major part in the novel as a whole and the theme that Camus is trying to portray. Meursault resists being typecast into an archetypal moral category in many of his deeds and actions. Many of his actions in Part One of the novel help contribute to the fuzzy picture of the character. For example,

Moral ambiguity in the novel The Kite Runner is a concept Khaled Hosseini, the author, exercises plenty of times throughout the novel, but the few characters that are frequently accounted for being ambiguous are obvious, for instance, Amir and Baba. The Kite Runner is a novel written to express the lives of other people in separate countries. As life advances for the two characters, Hassan and Amir, trauma causes them to get wound up in a landslide of events leading to agitation, redemption, and

Peace like a River: A Boy’s Lesson in Moral Ambiguity What would you do for your brother, a stranger, or even your enemy? Peace like a River is the story of a young boy and his coming of age. It takes place in both Minnesota and North Dakota in the early 1960s. It is a story about family, loyalty, and what it truly means to grow up. Furthermore, the novel takes us through themes of moral ambiguity and the Erikson ideal of industry versus inferiority. The novel follows eleven-year-old Reuben Land

Moral Ambiguity in Beloved Toni Morrison’s classic novel, Beloved, can be briefly summarized as a story with woman who is living in both the horrible aftermath of slavery, as well as her action of murdering her baby child in an attempt to save her from slavery. This story is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, who killed her own child and attempted to kill her other children instead of willfully letting them all return to lives of slavery. While slavery is today clearly classified as wrong

make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” The media reaches out to all places and affects everyone. It changes how we think and what we do. In the novel White Noise, Don Delillo uses Babette’s moral ambiguity, conveyed through her decisions and actions, to reveal the influence that media has on the internal conflict between one’s self interest and morality. Within everyone, there exists a constant friction between one’s self interest and morality.

Moral Ambiguity in A Farewell to Arms Throughout history, people have been categorized as either evil or good. However, this rigid classification oftentimes does not fully apply to the nuances of human character. In literature, these characters with both good and bad traits are known as morally ambiguous characters. Similarly, In Ernest Hemingway’s WWI Novel, A Farewell To Arms, the main character, Frederic Henry, can be seen as morally ambiguous through the contrasting nature of his violence and

Everyone in the world has their own sense of morals and ethics depending on their lifestyle, area, and age. Morals are crucial as they define our character. They define our sense of personal and social relationships and combined with other people, ultimately defines our society. While our crime rates are decreasing, there lies a new challenge, and that our morals are vanishing. This subsequently is destroying our societies and cultures. As each new generation of children is born, they are molded

motile when warmed, and too insoluble when chilled. The perfect balance is a rare and fleeting moment among millennia of failed attempts, and even then, the canvas is only given a short burst of color, fading quickly back into the neutral tones of moral ambiguity. Likewise, in Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” the reader is greeted not with a uniform portrait, but with a twisted triptych of Man’s struggle to find God. His accompanying motif, however, is not any deity, but chimaera of his own making--

Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter takes the readers on an adventure to clearly define what is “good” and what is “evil.” He examines the phenomenon of moral ambiguity, which means that there isn't a clear cut definition of what should be considered a "moral" act or an "immoral" act. It’s like asking, "How bad should the extent of the action to be to be considered immoral?” In The Scarlet Letter, what is "right" and what is "wrong" is not cut and dry as one might think. The Puritan society, in

Natalie Harris AP English Language and Composition 12/1/2015 Ms. Burridge Moral Ambiguity Nathaniel Hawthorne, as an admirer of psychology, uses a distinctive theme of moral ambiguity amongst his characters in the novel The Scarlet Letter. The characters, in particular Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth, are rather difficult to classify as either good or bad; they are simply human. Hawthorne’s moral ambiguity amongst these characters makes them more relatable to real human beings