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Tim Fowler
English 101
Cameron Dodworth
Final Writing Project
11-20-2006
In today’s society morality is looked for in everything. When somebody goes to see a movie it could have no plot, bad acting, and bad special effects but one could walk out of that movie saying how it at least had a good moral. Politics go around in circles debating how immoral their opponents are everyday. The world has to deal with what is wrong and what is right just like we all have to decide whether the things that we all do are moral or immoral. Dr. Jekyll had to make this decision himself when he decided to go threw with his experiments after he knew what the effects would be. He had to make up himself whether what he was doing was immoral or not. This parallels Ebenezer Scrooge whose idea of morality was that other people stay away from him and leave him with his money. Before going further one must first know what morality is. According to Webster: morality is particular moral principles or rules of conduct as well as the conformity to the ideals of right human conduct.
Most people try their very hardest to live true to the ideal of right human conduct by living honest hard-working lives and passing these moralities down to their children who they too strive to live their lives in this manner. It is when somebody steps out of these parameters that our society has setup that the things one does become immoral. Such as: gossiping, stealing, lying, or committing murder. All are looked down upon and then the person who commits these acts is no longer considered as a moral person. They are cast out of the part of society, which thinks that the things that they did were indeed immoral.
Scrooge’s concept of morality was worse than Dr. Jekyll’s because he knew better, he had to know that the things that he would do and say to people were wrong or immoral. Dr. Jekyll had no idea of what of what he was going to do in the...
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