Category: Good and Evil

For centuries, humans have been fantasizing with the idea of eternal life and staying young forever. Vampires are creatures frozen in time with superhuman powers, so it is no surprise that they are at the center of many creative minds. However, as time passes by, the vampire character has changed to keep up with its…

The town where she lived had to be kept clean and sweet, but people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, and needed to be watched; the world was so large, and there was only one Strangeworth left in it (Jackson 5). In the short story, The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson, Miss Adela…

I am sure youve heard the saying, Video games will rot your brain!. But the question is do they? For the last year, Fortnite has dominated pop culture and nearly all young people are playing it on some sort of system. Many have learned valuable hand-eye coordination from this game along with problem solving. Generations…

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 novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a reflection of life in the south of America during the Great Depression. Through the main protagonist, Scout, we see how certain events in her life changes and helps her mature, and how she eventually learns that the world is full of bigotry and hatred.…

In Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne paints a picture of an evil world. A world where people who seem to be the most good turn out to be the most evil. Although we hate to admit it, we have all done something evil. It is near impossible to live inthis world without doing something with…

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…