Week 6 - The Road Not Taken pt.2

• Moralist approach is a type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature based on its moral or ethical teachings.
• Moralist approach is to determine whether works of literature are both true and significant.
• Moralist approach is whether a work convey a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of our world.
• Moralist approach

  • To judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principles
  • The importance of literature is not just its way of saying but also what it says.
  • The larger purpose of literature is to teach morality and to probe philosophical issues.