西方文学史上的许多作品最初都产生于人类的伦理需要,如《荷马史诗》中的《伊利亚特》《奥德赛》,古希腊悲剧大师索福克勒斯的《俄狄浦斯王》等,都具有深厚的伦理学内涵。以伦理为主题的作品正是决定文学作品道德意义和美学意义的关键所在,其主要特点是以伦理为主要理论依据,对作品中人物的行为、动机和手段的合理性进行分析,主要声讨的是文学作品中人物复杂的社会关系及其伦理道德,即给人们提供某种价值精神或价值关系的伦理道德指引,告诉人们什么是伦理,什么是道德。将这一方法应用于外国文学作品的研究 Many works in the history of Western literature originated from the ethical needs of mankind at first, such as “Iliad” “Odyssey” in Homer, “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles of the ancient Greek tragedy , Have a profound ethical connotation. The main theme of ethnically themed works is to determine the moral significance and aesthetical significance of literary works. The main features of this work are: ethics as the main theoretical basis; analysis of the actions, motives and means of characters in the works; Is a complex social relationship and ethics in literary works, that is to say, to provide people with some ethical and moral guidance on values ​​or values, and to tell people what is ethics and what is moral. Apply this method to the study of foreign literature