Romulus My Farther

romulus:

themes - alien culture, the importance of morality

Romulus My Father gives an insight into a person's attitude towards life. Different attitudes and morals are displayed, but ultimately reveal that a person's attitude towards honesty, loyalty, courage, charity and capacity for hard work is the key to life.

Romulus's attitude towards honesty is the most important of his many values. Romulus strongly believed that honesty is the key to everything and that "only a rigorous truthfulness could give a person the inner unity necessary for strength of character". This was in unison combined with is attitude towards hard work. Romulus maintained that one could not achieve great work without rigorous honesty. He tells Raimond that there were "few things more important than a good name" and did not allow himself ...help raise Raimond, but allow them to gain respect among their community. Among their values, the most central of them is shown to be "character". Character stood above everything else in life and those without it, inturn did not understand the value of life itself. Constantly, Hora suggests that Christina is a "characterless" woman, having neglected Raimond in his childhood.

In the text, life is displayed as something achievable by only those who are honest, hardworking, loyal and courageous. These values are highly looked upon by not only Romulus, but also Hora, whose attitudes parallel Romulus's. We are shown that a person's attitudes towards things such as work and compassion are the keys to life.

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