Category: Good and Evil

Self-awareness is key to being a good person, no matter how the term good is defined. Being self-aware allows one to see when theyre straying away from the path they want to take and to correct any behaviors that drove them off in the first place. The story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores…

The article I chose to write about is a brief insight to how good differentiates from evil. Difference Between Good and Evil was written by Manisha Kumar. She starts the article by explaining it from philosophers point of view which to sum up is that good cannot exist without bad and the same is true…

Moreover, Shakespeare characterizes Lady Macbeth as a poisoner, ridiculing the preposterous stereotype that witches used poisons for evil purposes, such as to harm or kill someone. Although Lady Macbeth does not poison her husband in the literal sense, she poisons her husbands mind, causing him to become a different person, a power-hungry tyrant, who will…

The theme of good versus evil within the novel, Salems Lot by Stephen King, seemed straightforward at first. Indeed, the vampires are a clear manifestation of evil, that big, bad, devil worshipping, drink your blood kind of evil. However, it becomes apparent that many people within the town itself are evil as well. This blurs…

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view& until you climb into his skin and walk around it(Lee 189). This means you cant judge a person about what they are and what they stand for, you have to understand where they are coming from and what they really…

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali and Macbeth both provided readers with an inside look at how prophecies and the role of fate help determine the outcomes of ones action. Alongside the prophecies exist magic and sorcery that further influences ones decision to be good or evil. In Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a…

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. Such has Shakespeares notion remained part of history throughout medians of literature, plays and films to this day and this was no different during the period in which Harper Lees tale To Kill a Mockingbird and Guilmero Del Toros epic Pans…

Harper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird depicts a range of themes like bravery, the law,racism,social inequality and so on. All of which she put in a way that all themes relate in one way or another, but I think the main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is good and evil. This book shows the…

In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller In the world, there are two opposite and powerful forces: good and evil. Some people are just all good and others are all evil. The world continues to function because a balance exists between these two powers unless individuals give in to a strong emotional feeling caused…

Are humans intrinsically good, intrinsically evil, or neutral? Dr.Jekyll, the main character of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr, Jekyll realizes human has two sides: good and evil. He wants to separate his evil side to seeks to be perfectly good people. But Dr. Jekyll failed, Hyde begins to control…