Mor-al /môrəl/ noun plural noun: morals A person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do. This is how the dictionary defines morals. Different people have different sets of morals and sometimes they do not coincide with what is the law at that time ; for example in WWII era in Great Britain it was illegal to be homosexual. Some people at that time would be opposed to this law because of their morals and some people (i.e. the people that made the laws) might not agree with their morals. Many characters in the book The Scarlet Letter come to terms with what they would consider to be of moral value and what is actually the law. Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth were
