Ethicism in David Lodge’s Thinks

Ethical Criticism holds the view that human beings are persistently involved in the process of effecting judgements from the ethical and moral point of view. This is true not only in relation to our daily lives but also in our treatment of literary works of art. Ethical criticism also releases a sense of awareness to the readers about their own sense of morality in their real lives. So, a connection between the reader’s life and the text he reads is established. In our everyday life, we encounter different kinds of people and we judge and weigh our actions on certain specific, moral standards. The same standards are applied to literary authors when we evaluate them. The judgements that we form in our minds about people around us and authors, are many a time not morally impartial or unbiased. This shows that our judgements depend very much on influences exerted on our thoughts.