Good and evil

Most people are born inherently good, but some of them are born evil and people would not even know. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, the author, William Golding, portrays a character named Roger. He seems civilize and shy in the beginning. But, when he starts to drift away from a life of rules and consequences, he starts to express his inner self in a negative way. Therefore, Roger is born inherently evil, because he shows his true self by hurting others for his own need. Roger demonstrates…

Beowulf has evil creatures like dragons and demons. For example there was a monster named Grendel that was from the fen which was a place where evil creatures dwelled. There are heroes that go on challenging conquests and fight bad things. For example there was a hero named Beowulf who fought monsters like Grendel. This book had many fantastical elements of things that seem unrealistic but there is a moral to the story that relates to our world and maybe some of your experiences you have had.…

In the Bible, God considered cruelty as a sin and a distinguishing characteristic of the evil. Since Christianity is a wide-spread religion, God’s belief is also well-known. Redundantly used as a trait of antagonists, cruelty is a tool to clarify who the malicious character is in a novel. Beowulf, written by an anonymous Scandinavian writer, also follows the norm of antagonists. Emphasizing the disgusting home and brutal personality of Grendel, Beowulf utilizes cruelty of Grendel to easily show…

Ground Zero takes viewers through the stories and theodicies of multiple people affected by the horrendous tragedy of 9/11, questioning God’s role in the evil that took place on that sorrowful day and the impact it made on their futures. In the film Kirk Varnedoe, Tim Lynston, and Dasha Rittenberg provide their input and opinions about God and the good or bad power he has on this earth, relating to the works of Holy the Firm, and Holy Terrors. In Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, Kirk Varnedoe,…

In both reading you can conclude that Mencius and Hsun Tzu oppose each other’s views on human nature. Mencius believes that human were inherently good, while Hsun Tzu thought that humans were born evil. Even though they both had different opinion they both were devoted Confucians. Confucianism is a system of rites, rituals, and social observances. Since Confucianism was divided between the questions of human nature there was not a right or wrong way to answer. This is how both men could both…

either God or gods and the minority who do not believe in any higher powers. The second important split that Lewis employs is the kind of God people believe in. The first idea is that He is beyond good and evil which is known as Pantheism. People that think this theory to be true perceive that everything is good in one way and bad in another. The second view is that God is righteous, He loves love and hates hatred, He is a God that desires for us to act in a certain way and not in another (Lewis…

Symbolism Bless Me, Ultima by Anaya explains the life of a young Mexican-American boy named Antonio Marez. Who lives in New Mexico during the mid-1940. The novel opens up with Ultima, a curandera or a healer who comes to live with Antonia and his family for the last years of her life. As the story progresses, we see the difficulties that Antonio has to go through and how he matures. This novel contains elements of the types of different stories such as drama, fantasy,and nonfiction. This novel…

psychological make-up of the guards. Viktor specifies, “Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those depths we again found only human qualities which in their very nature were a mixture of good and evil?” (87). Frankle is communicating that when the core of a human soul is examined, it cannot be distinguished as fundamentally wicked or virtuous. Throughout his book, Viktor Frankl plays with the ideas of fundamental negativity about…

Christianity is backed up with reason; if it were not, Christianity would be no more than superstition. Dr. Francis Schaeffer explains that Christianity is not like a leap into a dark room, but rather into a light. (Schaeffer) There are plenty of good and sufficient answers to the questions about why God allowed suffering into the world, what happens after death, and the meaning of history; they must simply be…

“I do not know” is the go to answer for a question that cannot be answered, but to one man it means more. That man is Socrates and his philosophy is based on that wisdom is based on how much a person knows. Since Socrates knew he did not know much, he was very wise according to his daemon because he did not claim to know more than he did. Many people today see Socrates 6as an icon to be cherished forever because of his “wisdom”, but people forget to ask where his moral philosophy comes from.…