Essays on Good and Evil

Are people born good or evil? Ever since the mid 16th-1700s it has been debated if people are naturally good or evil. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, who is credited to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known…

Growing up as a practicing Catholic, waking up early to go to mass at 8 am on Sunday mornings and attending religious education classes after school, I have always associated evil with Satan of the Devil and have seen God as all loving and good….

One discussion that has no closure with various factors that keeps on being included alongside definitions that keep on changing is the clash of ‘Good versus Evil.’ The possibility of Good and Evil holds numerous disputable issues and resounds from our religion and what we…

When reading Beowulf, parts of the article are very disturbing, some would say it is the monsters that make the poem the way it is. In Beowulf, one of the main monsters Grendel could be compared to one of the most nerve-racking serial killers there…

Beowulf can be compared to modern day relevance because we still have battles today, they are just more advanced and more deadly. There are many stories of brave and courageous soldiers going into war and a few coming out as heroes. Many of these heroes…

The hero Beowulf represents nobility in every fight that he takes on. Three major battles taking place – Grendel, Grendel’s mom, and the Dragon – bear many resemblances, but also differences. Each of them is a different measure of his strength, his changes in character,…

East of Eden, written by John Steinbeck, is a complicated retelling of the biblical story of Cain and Abel, focused around the overall struggle between evil and good. This was first seen in Adam and Charles Trask, followed by Adam’s sons, Aron and Cal Trask….

In the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson captures the attention of the readers around the idea of a highly respectable man fighting a deeper inner conflict with his “second persona”. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great…

In the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery to enhance the central message of Good Vs Evil. For instance, “Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury,…

Walden was written in the spirit to prove that man could live on much fewer expenses and thus the effort a man put into earning the money to buy them was unnecessary. Before diving deeper, Thoreau fails to point out that one of his friends…