Conflict between good and evil

mingled and were one. (Aurobindo 1993: 232) The human consciousness gets the enlightenment and the body gets the realisation of the indwelling spirit that is all pervading also. There is no distinction left between the two and only the Divine is experienced in all the creation. The division between the self and the other is gone as everything is perceived as the part of the self. The Divine presence in all the creatures removes the distinction. Everything bears a stamp of eternity and Aurobindo…

A curse put upon one, can also be known as the blessing hope. It is a desire for something to happen or a feeling of trust. To many people hope is seen as a blessing, yet it is a curse one can not see. It is put upon an individual influencing the hopefulness for a certain thing to happen regrading the possibilities of it actually happening. Hope is a unsighted curse since life does not always turn out the way one may want it to be, it can blind individuals senses, and hope has no limits. We hope…

burden of perfection and his happiness was destroyed. Vincent described Eugene as a person with ‘all the gifts required. A genetic quotient second to none’. Niccol characterised Eugene as the genetic definition of perfect, however, he was still not good enough when it came to a society like Gattaca. Eugene expresses this by saying, ‘With all I had going for me, I was still second best’. Eugene was second in the swimming competition, which would normally be considered a great achievement.…

The Kite Runner. A story about two inseparable friends, Amir and Hassan, growing up in pre-revolutionary Kabul, and experiencing a harrowing journey in the midst of Afghanistan’s undoing. In The Kite Runner, Hosseini uses the characters, internal conflict, and symbols, to reinforce its main theme: redemption is lead by repentance. To begin with, the characters in The Kite Runner demonstrate how Hosseini conveys the natural…

chicken” (19). This quote shows that because these animals are different in some way, they would be killed, even though they could provide like any other animal. The Waknuk people are not the only prejudiced society in the novel. During the battle between the Fringes people and the Waknuk people, the Sealand woman's fish-shaped craft shoots out a few glistening threads like cobwebs that catch everyone. As David and the others are freed, they all notice an eery silence, and at…

The irony helps Marlowe’s objectivity. Through his presentation of a military hero who defeats all enemies, yet who is himself subject to ultimate defeat, death, because of his mortality, through his presentation of two challenges to natural order and his declaration of their futility, through his presentation of an enemy that Tamburlaine conquers but whose character is questionable as a worthy opponent, and through his presentation of opposing points of view regarding names applied to…

What is Human Nature? A critique of the utopian ideal Hsun Tzu famously claimed that humans are evil, and although I wouldn’t opt for such emotive terminology, I believe that he was on the right lines. Humans are not evil; but they are inherently bad. Evil suggests something much more sinister, a plotting mind with a purpose for destruction. Rather, the process of evolution has determined human nature as innate and selfish, with survival and self-preservation an unconscious priority. I…

follows a respected English physician and scientist named Dr. Henry Jekyll as he secretly struggles to suppress his dark side, and the experiments he conducts to separate his good nature from the evil that festers in his mind. Dr. Jekyll, however, unintentionally creates a separate being comprised solely of his pure evil nature, known as Mr. Edward Hyde, who controls Jekyll’s mind and body and produces an independent existence for himself. As each version of the story begins its own path, the…

Rich Choi Compare how the theme of evil is explored in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. “Man is the cruelest animal”, says Friedrich Nietzsche. He is trying to imply that humans are actually worse than any animal on the Earth. In other words, humans are destined not to get rid of their cruelty despite the fact that they believe that they are acting in a civilized way in a civilized society. LOTF (Lord of the Flies)…

With Crime Comes Punishment Although the movies Tim Burton directs have various plots, they all have one thing in common, their theme. In the movies, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice, Burton uses music and sound, costuming, editing, and props to emphasize the theme of crime and punishment. Burton portrays that if one does something they know they shouldn’t do or are told not to do, their actions have consequences. Burton uses numerous other cinematic…