Moral ambiguity

The moral ambiguity surrounding the nature and reasoning behind Sethe’s murder of her child throws the community’s treatment of Sethe into question and pulls the atrocities of slavery and each character’s plight into the light. This dichotomy between both right and wrong helps redefine Sethe’s love and identification of herself by her children. Sethe defines herself by her children and her love for them throughout Toni Morrison’s Beloved, telling an uneasy Paul D. that choosing between him and

qualities a character can have is moral ambiguity. Moral ambiguity is defined as the identification of a person as either purely evil or purely good. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, has an innumerable number of examples of moral ambiguity written throughout the story. One character in particular, Daisy Buchanan, has specifically showed moral ambiguity, as she is one of the main characters. Daisy Buchanan is a morally ambiguous character whose ambiguity is significant to the story

superhero and creating the prototype for the broody and morally grey Batman we know today. This can be attributed to the moral ambiguity and complexity that marks the novel. Miller creates a questionable, morally ambiguous

A major characteristic of the Early Modern is moral ambiguity. Moral ambiguity is somewhere in between being all good or all bad. It is a gray area, and it could last for a short period of time or a very long period of time. The in between stage does not necessarily mean it is a bad bad thing. Moral ambiguity creates characters that are neither loved nor lonely, but left somewhere in between. In the Greatest Man in the World by James Thurber, Jack is trying to fly all the way around the world

good intentions, but his ambition leads to bad results. The Creature is an innately kind and compassionate person who commits abominable actions due to how others treat him. Their moral ambiguity is significant, as it reveals that an obsession with ambition distorts one’s morals. Victor Frankenstein’s moral ambiguity lies in good intentions with bad results. Victor evolves from an intellectually curious, innocent and blameless man to being remorseful, secluded and obsessed with the

Being the protagonist in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is subject to most ridicule and analysis for his moral ambiguity and outlandish views. After reading about his dreadful murder of Alyona and Lizaveta Ivanovna, many come to the conclusion that Raskolnikov is purely evil. His lack of guilt and belief of justification for his crime surely points readers in

opinion towards the character better. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, every character has some corruption of morals and could be defined as either choice. However, there are also characters who can be seen as morally ambiguous. Specifically, Jay Gatsby’s moral ambiguity as a character portrays how living in the past can cause a corruption of morals. Compared to the other characters in the novel, Gatsby’s actions appeared to be the most justified through his motives. Throughout

unsettling balance, causing the reader to be perplexed about who to support. However, this vagueness is what makes the novel distinctive; at the end, the reader is left with conflicted feelings and the need to blame someone, but not knowing who. Moral ambiguity is vital to the work as a whole because it sanctions the reader to see everything in an unbiased perspective, acquire more from the central themes, and

But in keeping in theme with the waltz, it is also a dance that has strategically placed steps and movements that every good dancer knows, and cherishes. It sets up the mood immediately for the audience subconsciously that everything is in strict moral uniformity and cleanliness, what a small town should be: precise, well groomed, and normal, keeping in trend with the such prevalent Hitchcockian irony.      One of the characters that stood out for me before even saying

Questionable morals that later reveal themselves to be admirable in the actions of an individual encases the overall meaning of moral ambiguity. The character may display traits that suggest they are merciless to start; however as their story progresses the character’s true, good nature is exposed. Moral ambiguity is significant to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible because through the character Reverend Hale, it develops prominent themes of theocracy and fear through the corruption of a higher power.