Good Friday

bore likeness of a great black snake.” When Hawthorne makes the relation between the staff and the snake he’s referring to the snake like characteristics fierce, evil, and dangerous those are the powers of the staff. The staffs power pressures the good people to become evil and have sin upon them. Goody Clause is not the person Goodman Brown thought she was: He had cast up his eyes in astonishment and looking down, beheld neither Goody Clause nor the serpentine staff. It states that goody clause…

The story “Liars Don’t Qualify”, by Junius Edwards is a story about a young man named Will who wants to vote, but he encounter some difficulties, which at the end he is unable to vote. The overall of the story is place in two different scenarios. One which involves Will and Sam and the other Sam and Charlie. Will in this case is the protagonist. Him being the main characters of the story he can be qualify as a calm person, preserve, humble and most importantly wise. In my opinion, he can be…

omnipotent and morally perfect God. The conception of God is said to be that God is an all-knowing, all powerful, and all good. This implies that God, an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good being would prevent any kind of evil from existing. But it has been argued that if such a god existed, why is there still unnecessary evil in the world that exists? “God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists.” Many people in the world struggle with suffering such as health problems, war,…

These Words Will Kill Me In my life I have heard the old adage: “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never break me,” in many different contexts and phrasings, and each time I hear it I think to myself- ‘no greater a lie have I ever heard.’ Words do not need the intent of a human voice behind them, they do not need tone or inflection to make a point. Language is the greatest human tool, and like any other tool, it can build or destroy. In fact, its capacity for destruction is…

This essay will discuss the psychology of evil and how people are not born evil but they’re created evil, also known as the Lucifer effect. The Lucifer effect is the effect of good people becoming evil from their situations; people make personal decisions that result in evil consequences. The oxford dictionary defines Evil as, ‘Profoundly immoral and wicked’. This essay will address some questions, such as; how do people perceive evil, what makes a person evil and what are the outcomes of evil…

why people are ultimately good and ultimately evil? If there ever was, where would it start from? By reading Augustine’s works, you can tell he questioned himself, If God was good then why is there so much evil the world right now? If he was good then, he should have trouble creating anything that has evil agendas. The way Augustine’s looked at it is if anything that turns evil must have started out good. If God created everything that is supposed to be good then that good has the probable of…

The world defines sadness, anger, and fear as negative emotions, however the definition of “negative” is to have a wicked or evil character. The worldviews sadness, anger, and fear as negative emotions but do not have the evidence to support this statement. These emotions have collected this title because the world fears discomfort and “describing them as “negative” only perpetuates the myth that these useful feelings are, you know, negative” (David 124). The myth of the emotions is so beloved…

pressure of the period’s values, and this was reflected on the concern of what was ‘good’ and ‘bad’ (or in other words, ‘evil’) that was represented in the literature produced at that time. Good could be defined as ‘having in a large or adequate degree the qualities or properties desirable in something of the specified kind; of high or acceptable quality, standard, or level’, whereas evil would be ‘the antithesis of good in all its principal senses’. As the definitions show, they are opposites…

A Few Good Men The film A Few Good Men by Rob Reiner is the best example of the judicial drama, a very popular genre in American cinema. It is a dynamic, uninterrupted even for a second, detective intrigue with a great actor's play: one of the best performances of Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and Jack Nicholson. The movie, edited in 1992, contains some ethical and moral issues related to the judicial system and immoral army orders, which turn into a crime against humanity. On the one…

Perfection in the World I’ve always wanted a perfect world. Between all the hatred and fighting, kidnapping, and murders, there is chaos all around. I swear world peace is possible behind all this corruption. Voices in my head tell me to fix the problem and be the solution. But that was many years ago. Now, things are very different. CNN headline: Terrorist Attack in France, 9 Killed, not one feeling of remorse. Or little girl raped and murdered, she had it coming. I have absolutely no…