Applied Ethics as a field of research, literature ethics should be interpreted as a literary activities, as well as ethical issues in the ethical issues related to literary studies, research literature, literary criticism and literary appreciation of the phenomenon of ethical issues and moral science.

The difference of the literature ethics and ethics of literature and art comes from the different understand-ing of literature theory in academic circle.

This article tries to deeply analyze the African American inter-sexual relationship of Alice Walker’s masterpiece The Color Purple from the perspective of ethical literary criticism, in order to find how distortion of people’s mind and disharmony of inter-sexual relationship further lead to the miserable situation of black women.

Dalloway and To The Lighthouse from the perspective of ethics, so it still leaves much room for further study on Virginia Woolf by making use of the theory of Ethical Literary Criticism.

This thesis is a study on the ethical values of foreign literature in Chinese textbooks which will use literary ethics criticism, comparative method and induction to make an exposition.

It is the practical crisis of mode loss of literature that expedites the emergence of the ethics of literature and art as a branch of applied ethics.