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I know that people think that the characters in Howards End are not moral or have all different morals, but isn’t this true of all of us.  If we didn’t have different morals there would be no need for the term or the idea of morals, it would just come installed in humans like a computer.  By showing that not all character are moral and do not consider the same things moral perhaps Forster is really displaying us as we truly are.  We talk about this book as not being generative because it is so stuck in time but these issues over morals are not.  Perhaps Forster did not intended the story line of Howards End to be completely understood and cherished through the ages but rather the underlying themes about morality are the true message.  Just a heralding back to the bipartide brain part of this course, it’s all in our brain and morality is just our brain telling stories to other parts of our brain, therefore can we really expect morality to be the same for all?