become a major player and contributor to this organization. It is usually thought that celebrities do charity work to look good to the public, but Audrey did it because she sincerely understood what it was like to starve and live in fear. Throughout her life, she took over 50 trips to various areas of the globe in order to help everyone she could (as UNCIEF ambassador). It is easy to classify Hepburn as a giver because of her incredible humanitarian work over the course of her life.
Audrey’s life mentality began to center on the ideals of selflessness, sympathy and honesty even more so as she grew older. When the famous French novelist, Colette discovered Audrey in 1951 she was abruptly thrown into the limelight. This drastic lifestyle change however did not change Audrey’s moral character or ethical code. She kept her private life very hidden from the media (because she deemed it inappropriate for others to know much about her) and was always incredibly friendly to the media, fans and coworkers. As Audrey was in the midst of her run as Gigi on Broadway, she was cast as the female lead in Roman Holiday. In 1953, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award, a Golden
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She continually put less emphasis on the rules people needed to follow in society and focused on how positive character traits could be formed. This connects back to her view on decision making because virtue ethics rets on the idea that the formulation of said positive traits help you make the correct choices. Audrey’s philanthropic spirit is a prime example of continual alignment with this view because of its concentration on the breaking of bad character traits (such as greed or selfishness). Hepburn continually fought against the atrocities that affected millions of innocent people around the world and viewed oppression as the major evil in