Essays on Good and Evil

On September 11th, 2001, three airplanes were hijacked in the United States airspace; two were directed to hit the World Trade Center Towers and the other collided into the Pentagon. From an average citizen’s perspective, these attacks were unexpected and brash – anger induced and…

Light and darkness, two aspects of life that differ in all magnitudes and shapes. The world is split in two, good people and bad people, both have good and bad inside of them. What matters is the part people choose to act on. From the…

Beowulf is an epic tale in which we follow the faceoffs between Beowulf and three monsters (Gummere). When he fights against these adversaries, he is victories. As a character, Beowulf aims to bring peace to the people around him and he wants to vanquish these…

Stealing. Rape. Murder. All of these are acts of evil that can be executed at any given point all over the world. However, none of these examples really help with understanding what evil actually is, which is why evil is perceived and defined differently by…

Good and evil will always be a battle that never stops fighting. The good will always triumph evil in almost all stories. Many authors use good triumphs evil as a theme to connect to a reader. The theme of good triumphs evil in different literary…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a story about the light and dark side of human nature. Throughout the novella, Stevenson explores many ideas involving the concept of good versus evil. Characters are used to show the…

Lord of the Flies A constant struggle between good and evil exists in our lives today, just as it has in the past. Any person wants to have the comfort of believing that good will always conquer over evil, right will always trump wrong, and…

In this essay we shall be discussing how Milton deals with the problems of both evil and temptation within Paradise Lost, ‘it focuses on God as a sign for authority and the status quo to Satan as a sign for the Other.’ . The time…