horrific scenes and has battles with himself and the evil spirits of the forest. Throughout the story‚ Hawthorne displays many characters who are symbolic and resemble things in a person’s life. There are three aspects that play a key role in this story: Young Goodman Brown and the people of the forest‚ who represent all people‚ Faith‚ who represents the spirit of a person‚ in this case Young Goodman Brown‚ and the forest‚ which represents sin and evil. In this story‚ Hawthorne wanted to indicate the
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the Hunter. The preacher’s real intentions are the hate of the left hand‚ and he rationalizes his evil through the false facade of the love of the right hand. Even though he may appear good and holy to some people‚ throughout the novel‚ he still has evil motives towards virtually everyone. In one of the preacher’s dreams while he is in prison‚ he recalls an incident in which he rationalized an evil act by claiming it was God’s will. After being solicited by a prostitute in Charleston‚ West Virginia
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Throughout our world history of wars one can argue which side was the protagonist. When the war of 1812 is taught in school‚ the people of the United States see them as the protagonist and the British as the antagonists but the British view it as the opposite. In literature many authors do not exactly show who the protagonist is in their plays novels or stories. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ many characters can be argued as the protagonist. Based on Jack’s characterization‚ his external
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A Fallen Angel Evil occurs in many forms throughout the movie Angel Heart‚ whether it is through Louis Cypher who emerges as the devil himself or the voodoo‚ black magic‚ devil worship‚ greed‚ lust‚ suspicion‚ vice and handful of murders that take place throughout the journey of Harold Angel’s search for Johnny Favorite. Despite these being some of the most abominable evils known to man‚ it is not these encounters that make up the central evil found in the movie‚ but rather Harold Angel’s denial
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When I thought about the role that the word "night" would play in the tragic play "Macbeth‚" I found that there were a variety of possibilities. Immediately‚ I thought of the nighttime as a period of rest and revitalization. I expected that this would allow characters to recover from the day ’s many demands. Secondly‚ I connected the night to the unknown. In the night ’s cloak of darkness‚ many more things could go undiscovered than in the revealing light of day. Next‚ I thought that the night would
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Lord of the Flies Essay The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of man. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ he reveals the idea of human’s evil nature beneath the veneer of civilization. In the story‚ the boy’s experience on the island reflects the defects in their character. Their action promotes the belief that man has primitive and savage instincts which reveals themselves under certain circumstance. Golding uses situational‚ dramatic
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Oliver is not a believable character‚ because although he is raised in corrupt surroundings‚ his purity and virtue are absolute. Throughout the novel‚ Dickens uses Oliver’s character to challenge the Victorian idea that paupers and criminals are already evil at birth‚ arguing instead that a corrupt environment is the source of vice. At the same time‚ Oliver’s incorruptibility undermines some of Dickens’s assertions. Oliver is shocked and horrified when he sees the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates pick a
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1 “Never open the door to a lesser evil‚ for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.” This powerful quote by Baltasar Gracian elaborates on the fact that evil acts as an external force‚ when one evil deed is committed more powerful evils will come to follow. The most compelling examples of evil being created through external forces are present in the books Macbeth (Shakespeare)‚ and Lord of The Flies (William Golding). Throughout these two books‚ innocent men begin to develop into
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thought God was omnipotent and good. The genesis mentions that everything God made was good‚ therefore the universe that God created is good. Augustine believed there were higher and lower goods but everything was good in its own way. Augustine called evil the privation of good and not a substance. It comes from the sins that Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3 Adam and Eve were enticed to take the fruit off the tree of knowledge because Satan said so‚ even though God said not to
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Never Truly Lost The story of Macbeth‚ an inherently good man who is slowly poisoned by the evil acts he commits to further his ambition‚ is a classic Shakespearean tragedy. Macbeth is first seen as a loyal‚ brave man‚ but as the play progresses‚ he begins to be overtaken by his darker side‚ partly due to the encouragement of his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. As Macbeth rises to power and gains the title of King of Scotland‚ both he and his wife become increasingly unhappy and feel extreme guilt for the
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