Beyond Good and Evil

is an incredibly strong moral that guides us and expresses that in the face of conflict, facing our enemy is the best way in learning how to be accepting. This notion of tolerance is exemplified predominately through the themes of racism, and good and evil in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Boaz Yakin’s Remember the Titans (2000), and Tate Taylor’s The Help (2011). These texts combine to teach us invaluable lessons about the positive impact of being open-minded…

Within society there is good and evil. Sometimes the good overrule the evil while at other time it’s reverse. It all comes down to one’s morality and inner strength. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne express the ruling of evil within mankind. In the story Brown has to face something in the forest but his wife mentions she is a afraid to have bad thoughts, but prayer will help strengthen one’s soul that fears. On his journey in the forest he meets and old man with a serpent on the staff…

The existence of monsters was not a myth for the people, during the Viking Age of Scandinavia. The people at that time believed in grisly beasts and mighty heroes who faced them everyday. For this reason the beliefs of heroism and villainy remain distinctive as day and night. A hero is handsome, brave, and noble while a villain is cruel, horrid, and savage. It may be hard to believe that many of the Anglo-Saxon views that lived thousands of years ago, still continue to influence modern day…

foundation of Pap, doubting that he would be a good “father figure” in Huck’s life. As a parent, their sole job is to care for their child. However, Huck described an occurrence in which Pap always thought that borrowing things wasn't a bad idea, just as long as you get around to pay them back. The widow thinks "borrowing" is just another name for stealing, and no boy raised right would do it (49). From the text, the reader can clearly see that this man does no good in Huck’s life. Huck is…

The Ethics of Prometheus Bound Can ethical theories determine the goodness or badness of a fictional character? While these belief systems can certainly be applied to fiction, there can be no single moral interpretation for a story, because ethical systems vary so greatly. Christian deontological ethics, Kantian deontological ethics, and consequentialist ethics all have individual ways of assigning moral value to actions. In Aeschylus’ tragedy Prometheus Bound, Prometheus steals fire from the…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “the battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Humans have a choice from the very start, to chose sides between good or evil. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn believes that the choice of humanity derives from the heart of all humans. What about human nature? Is it a choice? Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed that humans from the dawn of time were constructed evil. Through the parable of “ Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel…

When reading The Crucible, I have found that weakness, courage, and truth all occur. I have also found that it consists of revenge, and sin. The crucible gives you an idea of how things used to be, and how things were done. It gives you a mental picture of the type of crime and sin that used to be committed. You realize that people only used witchery as a form of revenge and self gain. When it comes to courage, there was one person in particular who I think of. The person I think of is…

presents her idea of good and bad of love by relating it to a Greek mythology. On the other hand Rossetti and Armitage presents their idea of good and bad of love by putting in language features such as personification, metaphors, enjambment and alliteration. One of the many ways that Duffy presents the bad ideas of love in ‘Hour’ is when she refers back to ‘Midas’s light’– one of the Greek mythologies. This shows that Duffy is trying to express that love isn’t all that good as Midas had turned…

Evil is found all over the world. No matter where one looks, it is always there. Throughout history, evil has played a major impact on people’s lives. Whether it has been a major event, such as genocide, or a minor event, such as a street murder, evil is always prevalent. Evil directly influences and causes suffering so therefore they run hand in hand. Many people question God for him allowing evil to be real. Why would he allow evil to be known if he knows how bad things can get. Depending on…

Introduction A Christian viewpoint of business is often viewed in positives and negatives, but in his book Van Duzer encourages us to think of business in a different light. Van Duzer prompts his readers to not focus on the worthiness or ethics of business but to focus on business matter in the first place. Van Duzer begins to create his reasoning for business on a vocational theology, which is defined by the creation story. Van Duzer goes on to makes six observations about the accounts of…