Goodness, Altruism, and the Literary Imagination
The Evil in our World
1) “Evil has a blockbuster audience, goodness lurks backstage. Evil has vivid speech, and goodness bites its tongue.”
During her speech, Morrison elaborates on compelling goodness is while saying how easy it is being bad than it is being good. What I found interesting about this quote is that it is actually true on how people today find it easy to be evil and how difficult it is being good even though the good guys win in the end. Not to mention how people, in their own mind, can easily understand the idea of evil and someone think that what is bad is good and what is good is considered bad. Though that transition of their lives can determine how they intend to live especially since it is their choice. Can it be possible that we are determined to live out bad than good? Is it really difficult to live out a life where you can do more good than evil?
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When it appears, it's always with a note of apology in its hand.”
What I like about this quote is while Morrison talks about her stories and explains how her work contains an absence of goodness and by the time readers see that goodness appear, they think to themselves that it was meant to be there. It seems like her way of saying that our world and our lives should reveal more evil in ourselves than there should be good. With everything that took place in the world she grew up in, I wonder if she truly believes our lives and what we write show any source of goodness other than the fact that it has to
The Evil in our World
1) “Evil has a blockbuster audience, goodness lurks backstage. Evil has vivid speech, and goodness bites its tongue.”
During her speech, Morrison elaborates on compelling goodness is while saying how easy it is being bad than it is being good. What I found interesting about this quote is that it is actually true on how people today find it easy to be evil and how difficult it is being good even though the good guys win in the end. Not to mention how people, in their own mind, can easily understand the idea of evil and someone think that what is bad is good and what is good is considered bad. Though that transition of their lives can determine how they intend to live especially since it is their choice. Can it be possible that we are determined to live out bad than good? Is it really difficult to live out a life where you can do more good than evil?
2) …show more content…
When it appears, it's always with a note of apology in its hand.”
What I like about this quote is while Morrison talks about her stories and explains how her work contains an absence of goodness and by the time readers see that goodness appear, they think to themselves that it was meant to be there. It seems like her way of saying that our world and our lives should reveal more evil in ourselves than there should be good. With everything that took place in the world she grew up in, I wonder if she truly believes our lives and what we write show any source of goodness other than the fact that it has to