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    <b>Theme: Good and Evil Create a Society</b><br><br><b>Paragraph 1:</b><br>CENTRAL IDEA: Conflicts heavily arise between the two topics of good and evil. <br>THESIS SENTENCE: Through common stories good and evil are portrayed through both protagonist and antagonist view‚ creating morals and opinions‚ and how societies views have changed over time. <br><br><b>Paragraph 2:</b><br>TOPIC SENTENCE: Common stories portray good and evil through both a protagonist and antagonist view.<br><br><b>Paragraph

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    Human Nature: goodevil‚ or neutral. All ideas could be firmly argued‚ but I think the essence of humanity is at its core evil. “Surely there is not a righteous man on Earth who does good and never sins” – Ecclesiastes 7:20. This verse from the Bible merely states that every being on this Earth sins; it is our nature. In my opinion‚ sinning is what makes us human. Hsun Tzu believed that rules and regulations were necessary to keep humans in check‚ and I absolutely agree. Think about it‚ without

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    How is violence presented in Lord of the Flies? Planning (remember to get quotes): Key ideas: Introduction Setting -> This island -> pathetic fallacy‚ descriptions Binary oppositions: Civilisation vs savagery (breakdowns). Zoomorphism Binary oppositions: Dictatorship vs democracy (juxtapositions) Deaths of Simon and Piggy – animalistic‚ savage chanting‚ violent behaviour when they let their temptations get the better of them. Simon and the beast? Conclusion – end of the novel William

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    During the production of The Gondoliers‚ written by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan‚ a particular character stuck out to me and that was the young and beautiful Casilda. Casilda is the daughter of the duke and duchess of Plaza-Toro. We quickly find out a secret that is twenty years old‚ which happens to be that Casilda is married to the royal heir of Barataria. Casilda does not like this whatsoever because she is in love with Luiz who is also the duke’s attendant. Casilda’s character was hard

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    Tituba: "Scenes Of Schizophrenic‚ Ego Centric‚ Paranoiac‚ Prima Donnas" The times of the witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts were tough and cruel. Arthur Miller makes this very clear in his play based on true events‚ "The Crucible" (1952). Though Miller fictionalized many things in his play‚ it was indeed based on true events. There have been many documentaries‚ stories‚ films‚ and reports written about the Salem witch trials‚ some of them support the thought that the Devil was truly loose in

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    Appearance Does Not Show Your Character In the book The BFG by Roald Dahl‚ the fact that the BFG is a 24-foot tall giant‚ does not mean he acts like one. On page 17‚ the BFG captures Sophie and as the story goes on a couple more pages‚ Sophies learns who the BFG actually is. Sophie was frightened that the BFG had captured her because she thought he was a scary human eater‚ but she learns that he is not and they create a friendly relationship. Sophie learns that even a 24-foot tall giant

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    Flies is a book written by William Golding. Throughout the novel‚ many events occur that strongly associate the natural instinct of members of society living in a civilized manner with the instinct of savagery and evil. The overall concept of the book is about the conflict between good and bad. The two opposite qualities are competing impulses that exist within all humans. The instinct to live by the rules and exist peacefully with others is often in conflict with selfish desires which cause individuals

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    bacteria which through randomness and chaos‚ also allowed two separate life forms to evolve a opposite but compatible reproducing traits. So‚ when believing some invisible force was able to create and establish this split between two forces good and evil‚ and

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    One of the ways Steinbeck shows Curley’s Wife as a villain is by portraying her as a tart. In chapter two‚ Candy quotes “Well‚ I think Curley’s married . . . . A tart.” In this chapter she is presented negatively‚ he uses his context to show she is a trouble maker and an attention seeker. The fact candy has labeled her a tart so soon makes us assume she is the villain in this novel. In the same chapter it is written ‘She had full rouged lips and wide spaced eyes‚ heavily made up. Her fingernails

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    the popular Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Portrayed as the epitome of evil‚ Grendel brutally attacks the meadhall of the Danes for twelve years before being defeated by the epic hero Beowulf. Gardner‚ through his book Grendel‚ creates a new point of view of these events through Grendel eyes‚ as Grendel learns about the humans and how they seem like wild animals in their actions. In Grendel by John Gardner‚ Gardner reveals that “Man must have evil so that he may have good to balance…” through the use

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