Conflict between good and evil

Chapter 4 of Genesis revolved around the conflict between good and evil. It centralized around the tragic story of two brothers with a different way of life. Cain and Abel symbolized complete opposite concepts and mentalities. While Cain embodied darkness and evil, Abel symbolized good and light. In all of us, we have darkness and evil, but we also have good and light. It is up to us whether or not to let temptation corrupt our moral compass and hearts or to be stronger than that and live a life…

commenting on the relationship between justice, conflict and violence, he states: Distributive justice, where specifically imposed on human material conduct, may reduce or even eliminate economic conflict or violence at the observable of human interactions. However, the implementation or imposition of a distributive system of justice is not only an act of violence itself but that the working of such a system requires maintaining and re-distributing economic conflict or violence. The violence is…

part of a disciplined hierarchical structure where many clans served under another for multiple generations. Many of the samurai writings, such as Opinions in Ninety-Nine Articles and The Regulations of Imawa Ryoshun, were focused on the roles of a good ruler and servant. Around the same time period, Niccolo Machiavelli also wrote about the role of a ruler and how a ruler must act in order to maintain his reign. Though they were located in very different parts of the world, Machiavelli…

of the things I have loved while being in your class is how we have been able to read stories about Christ, or stories they are reflective of the Gospel. This trimester was no different. In Candide we see men search to find they explanation for how evil and a just God could exist in the same world. In Things Fall Apart we see the comparison of the Igbo tribes and Christian doctrine. Throughout this trimester we have continuously seen how character’s choose to embrace or reject God’s…

Societal Savagery There is an evil, from immoral actions and villainous desires, possessed in all beings. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a complicated and allegorical novel that suggests this theory. When a plane is shot down after being mistaken for a military craft, the school boys that survive the crash are forced to create civilization on an isolated island. With the outside world engulfed in war, two boys, Jack and Ralph, attempt to bring order to the island. This becomes…

pressure of the period’s values, and this was reflected on the concern of what was ‘good’ and ‘bad’ (or in other words, ‘evil’) that was represented in the literature produced at that time. Good could be defined as ‘having in a large or adequate degree the qualities or properties desirable in something of the specified kind; of high or acceptable quality, standard, or level’, whereas evil would be ‘the antithesis of good in all its principal senses’. As the definitions show, they are opposites…

eternal damnation, he sees the role it plays in the fate of his soul. The speech also reflects on the context of the play, as it was produced at a time of religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in England (Marlowe's Literary Scepticism). This affects the way the audience is expected…

When Jonas first learns about colors from the Giver, he is so amazed by it and wants everyone to see. The next day, after given the ability to see red, he sees Fiona. To his surprise, she has beautiful red hair. This is a major significance later on when he is given the ability to love because then those two things goes hand in hand. Love an emotion that is absolutely unknown to Jonas, yet when he experiences it, he decides it is the most amazing thing ever because it made him feel "a little…

one aspect of his writing. John Donne has a writer mainly focused on religion. Shakespeare took a variety of topics and themes and put them all throughout his writing for example in King Lear you see religious views, social classes, gender roles between men and women, and also rhyme scheme is an important part in his poetry and…

story that kept the reader engaged. There were themes in the play that keeps the reader thinking all throughout the story. I personally feel like this story was a head of its time because there are movies today with a similar storylines and ideas. Good vs Evil played a big part of this story. A man gets bored with his life and knowledge. He urges for more knowledge. He shows signs of obsession throughout the play of gaining knowledge. The greed is really what hurt him that leads him to concoct a…