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Moral Imperatives: Right or Wrong? "When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble." ~Joan …

…can affect our judgment. The Harlequin did not care. He wanted everyone to stop and look around. The two ladies in “Trifles” wanted to do what was right, but were, in fact, wrong. They saved a life that had taken someone else’s. Moral Imperatives were encountered in both stories and each dealt with them in their own ways. When you face your own moral imperative will your answer be right or wrong? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**