Social Morality in Modern Literature

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This paper discusses four literary works in an attempt to define social morality: Chinua Achebe's novel, "Things Fall Apart", W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming", "The Guest" by Albert Camus, and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The paper examines how, through literature, writers are able to provide people with varying themes related to the discussion of social morality, offering people avenues wherein morality can be created and developed by society and adapted by the individual.

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"Literature, as the primary source of information of people in witnessing and experiencing realities interpreted by the author/writer, is more than a medium that extends messages of reality and experience. Literature is, first and foremost, an expression of thoughts and ideologies that may or may not be agreed upon by the author or his/her characters in the said work. The concept of social morality is such example of these ideologies extended thru literary works. Through literature, writers are able to provide people with varying themes related to the discussion of social morality, offering people avenues wherein morality can be created and developed by the society, and adapted by the individual."

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