Category: Problem of Evil

Evil is brought on by the hands of humans and their actions lead to consequences they deserve. In Voltaires Candide and Related Texts, Primos Survival in Auschwitz and The Book of Job, discussed how humans are the cause of evil, which led to many unexpected situations to happen. In this paper, I will analyze Rousseaus…

Introduction to the Innate Goodness of Humanity We are fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self destruction.—(Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: Mocking Bird) The book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding tells a story about a bunch of British kids experienced an air crush during the Second World…

The majority of people have enough common sense to make the split-second decision in favor of good over evil. However, the friction between good and evil is an immense conflict for those without proper reasoning. In The Crucible and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? two characters, Abigail Williams and Arnold Friend, without…

Romanticism came about in the 18th century, Romanticism focused on the joy and good that come along with the natural world and humans. Although there is a glee side of Romanticism there is also a dark side of Romanticism. Dark Romanticism is the darker side of the natural world, the darkness within humanity and self-destruction.…

Good people do bad things. It is just a fact of life. This does not make them evil  or does it? In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, good versus evil is seen in todays society. Dr. Jekyll, who represents good, is in a constant battle with…

During the sequential time of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn development was utilized as a way to legitimize conventions of racial virtue, and all the more especially, the thought was that one race may guarantee prevalence over another. Dark individuals as of now were characterized as Subhuman and second rate. Twain parodies this sort of…