Reasons Why Moral Purity Can Break Your Characters

The Protagonist of your story is likely to be the goodie, so you might write them with moral purity. They’re the person you root for, the person you are invested in. Your story starts when your Protagonist becomes active in pursuit of a goal, and is resolved when they get it (or accept they cannot have it).

I’ll be talking you through the problem with moral purity, and alternatives that might work better.

What Is Moral Purity?

Moral purity means a character is someone who is completel...