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Unintentional Crime (An analysis of the messages from The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence) “Cain is universally branded as the evil murderous killer of an innocent Abel” (Levin). In The Rocking-Horse Winner various crimes take place in this novel while unintentional, one individual can clearly be see as the evil murderer of young Paul. It’s rather fascinating what insights this story gives to the reader about the relationship between parents and their children. Also, of socioeconomics…

The Influence of the Lack of Society “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” (Golding 72). The lack of society created a monster whose main focus was to hunt another monster. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys were stranded on an island in the depths of wilderness, with no sense of direction or authority. This lead to chaos and destruction to erupt between them; the boys were left to make their own decisions and choices to figure out survival on the island. In the…

Victor’s creature is not a monster. He is a being that has been misguided and rejected by society. The creature is not a real monster; it is a victim. The creature did not begin its life as a monster but became one after Victor Frankenstein rejected it and refused to realize that he must take care of this creature from now and forever and be responsible. The creature was born defenseless in this world. Victor ran away because his creature was horrifying, but the Creature did not have any cruel…

The evil that men do lives after; the good often buried with their bones. I believe this statement is true for many reasons, and there are many examples of this shown in the book and in reality itself. What that statement is stating how when very good men or just people in general do something evil, meaning something that isn’t very pleasing to the audience/crowd. It’s often buried with their bones which means everything they did good in the world is overshadowed by the evil things they did.…

ages between good and evil is one the most common theme in literature. It sparks many questions ranging from what is good and what is bad, and why is something deemed as bad while other things as good. As every aspect of life have a certain side; it will always have an opposite one as well. Technically speaking without evil there would be no good. However what is considered to be good and bad. In the play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus good and evil are…

Brendan Hansen Mr. Williams Man’s Inhumanities 15 November 2017 The Science of Evil: Book Review INTRODUCTION: The book “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Evil” by Simon Baron-Cohen was published recently in 2011 and provides and modern look on how we come about treating other human beings as objects. While this book was short coming in at around 250 pages, it still goes into much detail about how we come to commit cruel acts to other human beings. To summarize, Cohen argues…

Psychology of Evil” discusses the line that separates good from evil, and how any human, placed under the right circumstances, can be swayed to either side of that line. Zimbardo begins his talk by discussing the century old question “What makes people go wrong?”. While some people may argue that humans are born either intrinsically good or evil, Zimbardo refutes this claim stating how, as a young boy growing up in the Bronx, he personally witnessed many of his friends cross the line from good…

'I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer,' urgues the Ghost of Jacob Marley (Dickens 30). The Ghost Of Jacob Marley came to Scrooge to warn him, trying to open his stone heart, to change his life of selfishness and greediness. The Ghost wanted to show Scrooge that the true happiness is in giving and in making other people happy. In the similar way as the Ghost of Jacob speaks to Scrooge, so the Ghost of…

Religion is a complicated concept. On one hand, it is a way to understand life after death and ensure positive moral behavior. On the other, it has been used to legitimize the power of humanity’s worst leaders and justify slavery. Mark Twain’s literary masterwork, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, portrays the journey of Huck Finn, a young teenager on a mission to escape civilization in the 19th century American Midwest. Twain’s work is extremely controversial and has even been banned in…

With injustice and cruelty running rampant in the world, it is unsurprising that people become determined to make things better for tomorrow. Those aware of the moral greyness of their actions often quote the cliché saying that the ends justify the means. Commendable yet unreasonable, leaders whose sole purpose in life is to fix what they see as “wrong” with the world fall prey to thinking there is only ally or enemy. In the long run, they cause more conflict since they no longer force…