| Abstract: | In Let No One Write My Epitaph, Willard Motley describes the juvenile problem, women problems and drug-addiction problems in the underclass society in Chicago from the aspects of evils in virtues, virtue in evils and the combat between evils and virtues, discloses the internal correlation between social ethics and existential space of common people living in underclass society, and presents the multidimensional combat between the ideas of human virtues and vices and the original essence of human nature. From the evils in sub-morality, self-sacrifice and justice pursuit, he delineates the virtues existing in evils, negating the absoluteness and completeness of evils. In addition, he reveals the social phenomena concerning the evils in virtues, maintaining that virtues and evils can be transferred mutually, and this change determinedly results from the inner intention of a person. |
