The analysis of the main character's morality in The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Christiany, Erlina (2005) The analysis of the main character's morality in The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

In their life human being often face many problems and choices and so is in wife-husband life. Too busy husband who does not have enough time for family can be a source of crack of wife-husband relationship. Ironically, it happens because the husband works for their family. Furthermore, the third person interference accidentally or not may worsen the harmonic relationship. There is always a chance and reason for a wife to make affair with another man. In this case, a wife's faithfulness and morality are examined. A wife has to make a very difficult choice. Concerning with moral value, it is shaped and formed through what a person has experienced or through what other people have exemplified. The End of the Affair written by Graham Greene tells about an affair between a married woman named Sarah with Mourice. It starts from Henry, Sarah's husband. Who is very busy and does not have much time for his wife. The third person appears. He is Mourice. The relationship which is at first only between a writer and an informant is getting serious. Sarah falls in love with Mourice. Their attitudes and behaviors deviate from social and religious moral value. Sarah also make two other affairs with Dunstan and Chief Warden when Mourice is far from her. The purpose of this study is to (1) describe the main character's moral value, (2) analyze the causes of the main character's moral deviation, (3) elaborate the moral teachings of the main character's moral value. What is meant by social moral value in this analysis is the principle of right and wrong concerning with the people around. While, religious moral value is the principle of right and wrong based on a religion. In her relationship with Mourice, Sarah breaks many moral values in society. She is not faithful to wait her husband coming home from work. On the contrary, she goes out to see Mourice. She never asks the truth where she has been out. Furthermore, Sarah commits adultery with a man. All of them are contrary to moral value in society. As a Catholic, Sarah of course is forbidden to do all of them. Indeed she is forbidden to make affair with two other men. All of them are contrary to moral value. in the religion she has. There are some factors, which support Sarah to deviate from social and religious moral value. They are parental value, her husband's business, Sarah's egoism, jealousy, and unfaithfulness. From Graham Greene's novel the writer takes the moral teaching. In a wife-husband relationship a problem must be discussed. It does not matter how little the problem is. A little problem may grow bigger if it is not solved immediately. Parents play important role in shaping and developing a child's moral value. What parents have exemplified through what they have done will be imitated by a child. The examples will be deeply planted into his or her soul. Then they become moral value that a child will hold as long as her or she lives.

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