Moral Themes In The Novel 'The Sun Also Rises'

The Challenge of Moral Value
One of the most important themes in the novel The Sun Also Rises is the Destructiveness of Sex. It is a book that can be called as an “immoral”, with sex as a powerful force. Many characters through the novel do things that are not appropriate to be done and that parents wouldn’t like from their children to do so. The most shocking character is the Lady Brett, which seems to have sex in an indiscriminately manner. Jake on the other hand betrays Montoya, in this way allowing Brett and Romero to disappear together. Another immoral character is Cohn who lets his fiancé, only with the reason that she hasn’t got enough experience to marry. Whereas Mike is very unkind when is drunk, and shows interest for his fiancé only
They had seen different weapons, and also have seen hundred of thousand people dying and also asking from them to help, in their last seconds of life. For persons such as Mike, Jake, Brett and the others who survived these and many other terrible things, it might denote that the world has lost its innocence, and the morality of traditional Christianity has no longer value or relevance. Or also it can be understood that everything that before had mean something such as love, art, peace, now has become helpless. What this mean in simple terms is that the world had changed as a result of the war, and people in order to know what has changed started to experiment in order to find
Brett and Jake love each other, she says him that yes she loves him and also treats him in different way, but doesn’t accept to be with him since she cannot gibe up from sex. She cannot be with only one man. Through Jake she connects with Cohn, even though he doesn’t knows that they are planning to go and travel to San Sebastian. He also knows about her interest for Romero, so he not only introduces them, he also lets them be together and helps them. By risking the Romero’s dishonesty, which actually is the only character that remains with full moral, Jake risks hopelessness, a situation which appears in the last line of the book, that it may be only a good lie that Brett and Jake could be together if he wasn’t powerless. The greatest moral choice and the best example of moral value of this novel might be Brett’s decision “Not to be a bitch”. She is a woman with no moral, is drunk almost all the time, and plays with Jake in different ways, but in the end of the novel she lets Romero go, and not because she doesn’t love him, nor that she doesn’t care for him, she wants to be with him, but she leaves because she is afraid that will hurt him and fill affect his future career. She believes that will have bad effect on him. She cares a lot for him, as much as she leaves him knowing that is choosing the best thing for him.