This main theme is very related, even interwoven, with the conflict that might arise between a son's duty towards his father and his own moral duty towards his society. ... This shock caused a sever kind of internal conflict inside him between his Idealism and Practicality, to the extend that towards the end of the play he admits to his mother and Ann that his idealism had left him and that he has now become a practical man who does not have the courage to force his father to face the consequences of his guilt. ... Though he adopts a highly moral tone, he was only trying to escape his own...

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