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Female ethics is one of the key ideas that Melville attempted to convey in his novel Pierre, O, the Ambiguities. In this study, ethical literary criticism is adopted to study the female characters in the novel. It is concluded that overbearing mother Mary carries out wrong education ethics which triggers incest between mother and son. Meanwhile, her deep-rooted traditional hierarchy ethics refrains the development of Pierre’s rational ethical conscious and prohibits the construction of right ethics. Seductive and evil Isabel holds ethics of benefiting oneself at the expense of others’ interests, which directly contributes to the change of ethical context, ethical identity of related characters in the novel, subsequently lead to ethical tragedy. Pure and nobleminded Lucy undergoes the growth in love and marriage ethics and ultimately becomes a model of female ethics. Melville made a profound study of these female characters and conducted a moral critique of female ethics by means of vividly portraying the ethical consciousness and moral behaviors of these abovementioned three female characters and further expressed his ethical ideals and ethical concern as well. Keywords—Melville; Pierre; Feminine Ethics; Ethical Critique

Ethical Critique of Female Characters in Pierre, Or the Ambiguities