# Honor and Moral Integrity in Philoctetes

> Theme guide for Philoctetes by Sophocles.

Neoptolemus struggles to maintain his inherited sense of honor from his father Achilles, ultimately rejecting Odysseus's deceit to act with integrity, even at the cost of the mission.

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