Role of Morality in Marriage
Though morality has played many roles throughout the history of mankind, even continuing to play through those roles today, its role in marriage fails to fall under the same scrutiny as in its other relations. ... Calixta, from Chopin’s “The Storm,” evidences a complete lack of morality towards her marriage in both her infidelity and in the resulting aftermath. ... ”(Barnet, 1095) By way of these observations into the realm of morality, one can truly begin to understand why Nora would decide to do what she does in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. ... She kept this hidden from him for many years of their marriage, slowly whittling away the debt that she owed through various means such as her allowance, copying papers and cutting corners when buying herself clothing. ... The moment that she looks past her morality and, through both prudence and pragmatism, finds herself, decides to seek her own life, that is when the larva she’d been her entire life opens to reveal a colorful butterfly, eager to see the world for what it really is. ... And it was through this belief that her husband’s life was saved; through this belief that Nora’s morality shone like a star. ... “[Believing that something is right or wrong] is all right only so long as we recognize that the end may or may not be expedient, may or may not be a good idea…”(Morality, 302)