Conflict between good and evil

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…

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…

I realised again the fact of its humanity. In another moment other of its pursuers would see it, and it would be overpowered and captured, to experience once more the horrible tortures of the enclosure. Abruptly I slipped out my revolver, aimed between its terror- struck eyes, and fired” (Wells, Chapter 16). As we look through Prendick’s eyes and see his actions play out, we can get in his mind and look at big thematic questions through his perspective. By using indirect characterization, H.G.…

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…

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 "brother" too. George had been like Lennie’s keeper; he was like his parent. This…

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…