No Country For Old Men Moral Analysis

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Morality, which is widely known as the principles that have lead lifestyle in not only America, but the entire world, have developed and adapted alongside the progression of time and society over past centuries. Societal morals are shadowed for the most part, and are entirely separate from personal morals. However, personal morals are often corrupted due to a number of reasons. Money is one of the most prominent causes of personal morals and ethics to be abandoned. For instance, in No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, the protagonist of the novel, countryman Llewelyn Moss, compromises moral boundaries by disregarding a bloody crime scene involving multiple homicides, even leaving a man with his life on a thread, in order to track down

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