depth and in more generous detail. Round character usually role as the main figure protagonist in a story and also called hero. Protagonist is central to the action,
moves against an antagonist. They are called dynamic character that sometimes unpredictable
In analyzing the good and evil of human behavior, character also became one of the objects of analysis in this thesis, the view from this book may be really useful
for the writer to recognize and understand more about character.
2.2 Morality
Morality refers to manner, character, and proper behavior. Morality is the differentiation of intention, decision, and action between those that are good or
wrong. Morality refers to the most important code of conduct put forward and accepted individual or even by society that most members of that society use
morality as their guide. Talk about morality means talking about human as the character, human make a decision in taking an action between good and evil.
Morality also closely related to the word ethics. Morality is all about action, attitude, responsibility, and conduct while ethics is science, which talks about human
action or behavior that can be evaluated as good and bad conduct. Titus 1959:377 states “life is such that everyone has to make
decisions continuously in a world where there are right or wrong ways of doing things. Some of our decision is trivial; others are
so important that they may affect our entire lives. Our actions and decisions affect others as well ourselves. We make claim on
other person, and they make claims on us.”
People have some sense of value and they are free to make choices, to act right or wrong, another are free to make a judgment about the act, and it is called value
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judgment. The value of an act can be seen from the quality of things or acts that people have done, goodness and beauty would be values, ugliness and evil would be
lack of values. We judge on other person behavior, and they make a judgment on our behavior. In thought we can be in two places at the same time; we can do this
thing and that thing. But in action we must choose only one action, is it the good or the evil one.
2.3 Morality and custom
Custom is one of source of moral values. Titus in his book Living Issues in Philosophy 1959 explains so many things about moral. He said that morality is
related and influenced by custom Titus 1959:376 states In order to have any orderly social life,
we must have agreements, understanding, principles, and rules of conduct. There is no human society which does not have
well-established codes or rules of procedure.
In fact, some of these agreements, understanding, principles, and rules are called customs and tradition of the group. Ethical relativism believes that the
rightness or the badness of an action depends on the opinion of some individual or group toward it, because there is no standard beyond human thinking and feeling.
Right and wrong vary from person to person. Ethical statements, it is said, refer to the feeling and emotion of men and not to any objective facts or realities.” Titus:
1959:376 Many people accept custom and tradition as the bases of right and wrong
while many customs are beneficial and represent the past experience of the group.
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Custom is not a good gauge of morality; people need to remember that based on the moral value there are good custom and bad custom.
2.4 morality and civil law
