Beyond Good and Evil

Grimm brother’s folktale, “Hansel and Gretel,” is one of a torn apart family and the struggle to bring them back together, on the outside anyways. I believe the deeper story to be about the classic and oldest struggle of the battle between good and evil, and how one should never quit fighting or lose hope, no matter how deep one seems to find their selves in the darkness. STORY SUMMARY, “Hansel and Gretel”: A woodcutter, living with his wife and two children, is having hardships providing…

Introduction: Flannery O’Connor ambitiously sets out to make a reader face the grotesque nature of society and all it’s commonly concealed evils. In “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” Flannery O’Connor refers to herself as a “realist of distances.” Which means in order for her to explore the difficult and mysterious aspects of human existence she exaggerates the characters and ideas created in her stories. She considers the truly grotesque aspects of writing to be the most…

Evilness. Existentialism. Right vs. Wrong. Creationism. These are many topics that philosophers debate over every day and they are just a few topics that The Island of Dr. Moreau covers. The Island of Dr. Moreau is a book that answers many philosophical questions in a pithy fantasy narrative and gives these insights by intricately developing the characters through indirect characterization. The Island of Dr. Moreau is the story of Edward Prendick and how he accidentally comes to the Island of Dr…

In the article “Good and Evil, Good and Bad” Friedrich Nietzsche argues that morality emerges when ressentiment becomes creative and begins to have values. He claims that ressentiment comes from the “slaves revolt” and that the nobles are the ones that have complete power. Society is very predictable; you are free to make your own future and that is called “conscience” but Nietzsche flips that around and it become “bad conscience” along with the feeling of guilt which comes from the relationship…

There is a moral compass that makes a ticking noise every time a person makes a decision that could have a successful result or a dreadful consequence. People make choices that shape their lives using this tik-tok compass, and it will be at the back of their head reminding what is virtuous or dishonorable that follows throughout the journey of life. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Huck Finn's moral compass in an assortment of ways to uncover how Tom’s influence has…

Why do we find evil so much more fascinating than goodness? Evil is the flip side of human existence. Additionally, we are “ morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest realized… and it all happened, fittingly enough, in the dark”(King “Why We Crave” 3). In “ Why We Crave Horror” Stephen King precisely claims that our population crave horror to re-establish our feelings of essential normality, to experience a particular sort of fun, and in order to face our fears. In…

of evil and questioning God’s omnipotence presented by Mackie in his article “Evil and Omnipotence”. Mackie has his own “Inconsistent TRIAD” formula that states: 1. God is omnipotent 2. God is omnibenevolent 3. Evil exists. He argues that these premises are inconsistent since all three of them cannot exist at the same time. The premise below states that the free choice of good or evil by men is dependent on God. And if men can choose good on some occasion, then men can choose good over evil on…

Steinbeck's uses of Biblical allusions portrays the dangers of the sins and hopelessness in the lives of men, and it's consequences that can't be undone. Steinbeck's many biblical references in Of Mice and Men each conveyed their own significant meaning, teaching a specific lesson. For example, the parallel relationship between George and Lennie with Cain and Abel would portray the futility of brotherhood in our lives. (‭‭Genesis‬ ‭4:8-12 NIV) As Cain killed Abel, George murdered his own…

Witch. Next, I will explain and use Hannah Arendt’s theory on the “banality of evil” to interpret some of the fictional and historical connections Lewis makes…

One is given the power by God to take full control of his life and body. Self-control is a significant characteristic that enables a person to act rightly and accordingly to God’s law. In Micah 6:8 it states, “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God,” which teaches us to do what is right. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee it evidently shows and teaches one, the way of men is not…