Evil In Beowulf, Grendel, And Macbeth

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If evil was represented by the dark and good was represented by light, than evilness would permanent and goodness would be temporary. The darkness would always there, before the light reached it, during while it hid in the shadows, and after when the light disappeared. Evil would be inescapable. That was a popular theme in British literature through many centuries: subtracting the light and adding more darkness. Many dynamic characters, such as Beowulf, Grendel, and Macbeth, fell flat as their façades weakened and their true intentions arose.
A famous psychoanalyst named Sigmund Freud once said, "He had only to assimilate this new contrast between a moral self and an evil one, with the contrast...between the conscious and the unconscious.

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