Essays on Good and Evil

The world is filled with many different words, some harder to define than others. One of these difficult words is considered by many to be evil. Is there an inherent source of good and absolute evil? If so, where do these two concepts come from?…

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…

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…

I’ve chosen the work of Flannery O’Connor because it deals with especially important problems of modern world. This short story helps to understand the evils of today’s society and reveal weakness of human nature. Flannery O’Connor is an outstanding American writer of the 20th century….

Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the engrossing tale of a Grandmother and her killer locked in the emotional climax of a story that would’ve otherwise been the altogether unremarkable tale of a family’s vacation. This dialogue is what…

After the conclusion of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, it is somewhat difficult to say which literary theory provides the most insight into the text. Initially, the novel was analyzed from potentially four different perspectives: reader response theory, archetypal theory, feminist theory, and post-colonial theory….

The narrator of this short story is the grandmother, who proves to be a very shallow, judgmental and selfish person. The grandmother judges people as good or bad based on how they look and behave. The grandmother’s vanity and self-centered attitude are made apparent in…

The polarized symbolism of good and evil in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima Hailed as one of the greatest Chicano novels of all time, Bless me Ultima, written by the American novelist Rudolfo Anaya, brings forth a mesmerizing blend of some of the most important…

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…

Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, “East of Eden,” forces of good and evil were represented through physical forms. The characters in the novel shared similarities with important figures in the bible and rehashed the stories and events that occurred in famous tellings of Christianity. Readers delved…

The figure of the “hero” has been treated in many ways, but almost always from the same point of view; a hero is that person who performs an extraordinary and beneficial feat for others, this hero perform good actions to protect and to benefit the…

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,…

‘Dr Faustus’ is introduced as a very intelligent man who as a scholar appears at first glance to know everything. However, he is bored with the acknowledged boundaries of learning in terms of medicine, law and religion, and he wants to know more, in particular…

“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In both the play “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare and the novel” Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, they mirror a variety of literary techniques utilized by the authors…

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….