Most don’t take it into consideration what the author has done in the story with the conflict and characters. When Harry S. Truman had become president, he wanted Japan to surrender, so he bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He destroyed more than 200,000 lives in order to save America. Currently, most humans obtain the reason for the world presence destroyed. Humans slowly get rid of most species and chop down too many trees, but need to do these things in order to survive. Clearly, readers don’t realize where moral dilemmas stand even in humanity. Just like in the past, the authors in most stories create a moral dilemma, humans just need to find it. In his narrative poem, “The Highwayman,” Alfred Noyes creates a moral dilemma in the reader in…show more content… When the Highwayman tells Bess he wouldn’t let hell stop him from returning to her love, Tim decides that he should tell the redcoats about the criminal, to stop their romance. Alfred uses these actions to create a dissatisfaction between the reader and Tim. The author uses this emotion to create a moral dilemma between the Highwayman, and the “good guy.” When people realize that Tim was trying to get rid of the criminal for his, and Bess’s sake, realization comes that romance fulfills their needs, and its better to have it than none at all. With that known, behavior and actions can easily create a moral dilemma between two characters very quickly. In his narrative poem, “The Highwayman,” Alfred Noyes creates a moral dilemma in the reader in two simple ways. To start with, Noyes uses appearance to create a moral dilemma in the reader first due to the little affect it has to start with, but its mighty strong power. To continue on, Alfred uses actions next to create an even bigger moral dilemma in the reader, due to the anger it injects within the person. Thus, the moral dilemmas of appearance, and actions lead to a big moral dilemma of mixed emotions between the two character Tim, and the
