Good and evil

The Jinn’s characters are similar to the Christian entities of the Devil and his demons. However, the way that the West portrays the Jinn are caricatured, comic, and supernatural creatures. The Jinn are depicted as beings that grant wishes as the Disney’s version of Aladdin. In these accounts, the Jinn tricked humans and acted in a superficial matter. In a contrasting view, literature in the East represents the Jinn as frightful and sinister due to the Islamic religious beliefs. The divergent…

The battle between good and evil is a major theme in both Beowulf and Grendel. Beowulf is a story of a peaceful kingdom that is being terrorized by a bloodthirsty monster; Grendel. The story Grendel, is about a confused monster who is trying to figure out who the real monster is in his world. Humans can be just as monstrous as the blood thirsty monster that they are terrified of. Humans are portrayed as wonderful and flawless in Beowulf but they are seen as wasteful monsters in the story Grendel…

life or healing, and death. Another key example is seen when Frost writes “Mixed ready to begin the morning right”, where the literal meaning would be that the the spider is preparing for it’s day by eating this moth, starting his morning off in a good way. But, the reader should see that there is a double entendre here, when spoken, “morning right” sounds exactly the same as “mourning rite”, which is completely different. “Mourning rite” is more indicative of a ritual of mourning, perhaps that…

worlds in which the existence of one is dependant on the other. the narrator provides many versions of Omelas when she changes details about the city, however, these types of worlds seem to fall into two opposing worlds based on the concept of good versus evil. In doing this, she constructs a world of happiness and a world of suffering;…

Quote 1: “It is not a simpleminded book. There are no purely bad people in it. Conversely, there are no purely good people in it either. All the characters are complex mixtures of good and bad, or rather of bad results from good intentions.” People are not fully evil or fully good. They are merely a combination, or unfortunately mistaken. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck has two prime examples: Lennie and Curly’s wife. Lennie is a large man, but his mind is that of a small child. Since he is…

malicious thinking. We are born pure, and with goodness, but through life we gain knowledge that distort our thinking. That was the case of Young Goodman Brown, he decided to go on the journey that he knew he will be tempted by malicious thoughts. Evil exist when people decide to take the wrong road, it is up to us if we decide that. Life always tries to tempt us to change our perspective and our goals. But, the best thing to do is to remember what is our goal in life, and what is…

atheism, then explain why an atheist on contrary to Rousseau’s ideas can make a good citizen. Rousseau examines the ancient religions in terms of political…

the Lord’s decision to incite suffering proves to be deliberate and valid when it is viewed as a lesson, not punishment. At the onset of suffering, we see Job begin to question his own goodness; “Is injustice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern evil?” (Job 6:30) this initial questioning and search for answers highlights Job’s shallow relationship with God. Job equates his suffering with the idea that he has not been obedient or conforming enough to God’s standards of righteousness. This is a…

passages are God created, God said, God saw it was good, God called, and God blessed. Let’s start with the first words that…

different categories of Terror, Horror, and Revulsion, sometimes splicing and mutating the different categories into indefinable, unrecognizable, terms. Browning’s aim for his film is not to clear anything up, using the themes of: us vs. them, good and evil, humans and monsters, etc. to create understanding or enlighten people; and it certainly is not a film promoting the message, “Freaks! They’re just like us!” His intentions, rather, is to stir the witches brew, disturbing the layer of grime…