Ethical criticism often takes a certain moral consciousness and its ethical relationship as the norm to evaluate works, and takes good and evil as the basic category to determine the choice of criticism objects. This kind of criticism focuses on the evaluation of the moral consciousness nature and taste of literary works, and realizes the ethical value and moral education of works.

(2) Features

Because all classes, nations and social forms need morality to regulate people's will and behavior, and to establish ethical relations between people, people and society, people and countries or groups to maintain their own survival and development, ethical criticism has a long history.

(2) Because the moral connotation and moral standards of ethical criticism change with the development of society and social relations, and vary with different classes and nationalities, the mode of ethical criticism seems to be constant in form, but fluid in content, which makes ethical criticism as a mode also diverse.

(3) Due to the historicity and diversity of ethical criticism, there are obvious differences and even hostility when evaluating the "morality" or "immorality" of works.