Essays on Good and Evil

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…