Ethical Dilemma - Research Paper Example

Thus Margaret should choose which is the most important thing for her either her gender roe or own personality. The point of any story, including all the stories depicted in films, is in description of human choice, which eventually leads to either good or bad consequences. However, unlike some common conceptualizations of choice that claim that choice deals with picking between good and bad, real choice (a complicated one) is always about choosing between equally either bad or good possible consequence.

This means that each really crucial choice is an exclusion of something crucial. Ethical dilemma requires an exclusion of some morally valuable thing in behalf of another, probably more important value. So the two important values that the leading character Margaret Keane should choose between are her identity (personal interests) and social status (her social identity). On the very beginning of the film Margaret is described as an obedient wife and a good decent mother. She lives an ordinary life of an American housewife of 1950es, when women’s rights weren’t so developed and society didn’t take them seriously.

Thus she identifies herself with the gender role of a typical woman she is used to playing. She believes that being a good mother is a part of the gender role, which cannot be separated from being a wife and being an obedient woman. So as far as her maternity is an important moral value for her, the only way she believes she can implement it best for her child is by playing the complete gender role parked on her by society. Although Margaret manages to get divorced with her husband who she cannot live with, she realizes that society doesn’t accept a single mother who has no professional skills in anything.

She meets a man who seems to be a nice one, however eventually it turns out that he is a fraud who cashes in on sailing her genius artworks under his own name, keeping Margaret in shadow. Thus opposite value Margaret has is