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King’s The Stand is said to be an extremely lengthy novel about the hardships of mankind and the battles of good and evil. At first sight, while it may seem to be all about how the extremes of good and evil fight and give balance, The Stand goes deeper than that. Stephen King isn’t writing about our extremes, but about how we perceive them. People see the world in extremes: black and white, good and bad, etc., but the vast majority of the things that make up our world fall somewhere between the…

In the narrative, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, the author Mary Rowlandson, was captured by Indians as known as “barbarous creatures (259). Mary Rowlandson had to witness half of her family be murdered and be separated from her children without any acknowledgement where they could be. During her journey with the Indians, she started to lose hope especially when her one of her children dies, but she knew she could not show too much fear in front of her…

In Nathalie Petrowski’s passage, “The Seven Minutes of Marc Lepine”, published in Effective Reading and Writing for Comm170 and beyond, Third Edition, the author empathize with Marc Lepine, and challenges the readers that Marc Lepine who is identified as an abuser, is in actuality a victim. Nathalie identifies Marc Lepine as a victim throughout this article although he is known as “Montreal’s mass murder”. The author does this by examining where and when did Marc’s life go wrong. Nathalie…

everything and he is just a shadow of the man he was before the divide. This quote said by the Fool supports the characteristics of Lear being foolish and dull. The Fool tells Lear that he cannot tell the difference between what is good or corrupt/evil, he also lacks a good judgment on how to deal with his kingdom’s affairs. Lear is foolish to think that he can split his kingdom amongst his daughters and continue with his life. He does not seem to realize that his power and authority is…

The duality and duplicity of the devil force Young Goodman Brown to question what is inherently good and evil in his life. Hawthorne utilizes the dual identities of the devil in an effort to portray the eternal, moral struggle of humanity. As Hawthorne states, the devil “had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner-table” (Hawthorne 2), but “the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff … it might…

The author’s purpose for writing The Problem of Pain is to show that just because there is evil and suffering the world does not mean that God ceases to be God; that Divine Good does not exist, or that He ceases to be an all-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful God. The author’s purpose for writing chapter three, on Divine Goodness, is to explain that love and kindness are not synonymous, and just because they are not does not mean that God does not love humans. To love someone well does not…

When a reader reads a tale they want to be able to picture it in their mind. Beowulf is a great tale to read and picture. In Beowulf the author is comparing good versus evil. Beowulf is a warrior that comes and helps the Danes fight a monster known as Grendel. In the epic Beowulf, the author use of character descriptions, kennings, and imagery helps to bring the epic to life for the readers. One way the author of Beowulf helps the reader bring the tale to life is by using character descriptions.…

In Crime and Punishment, imagery and deliberate usage of words engulfs the reader in an atmosphere where many characters experience suffering to the point of evoking pity from the reader’s sympathetic attitude or sense of superiority. Through both direct and indirect characterization, Dostoevsky intimately acquaints the reader with diverse characters who are likely very different from themselves. Nonetheless, not all characters are shown pity equally, as illustrated through the examples of…

battle between good and evil present in civilization. Fear in civilization causes there to be constant battles between…

language, power, and even the meaning of existence. Nietzsche believed that as humans we fundamentally want power and always attempt to inflict our will upon others. He believed to live the good life we must affirm our instincts to acquire power and dominance over others and things in our life. Living the good life and lasting satisfaction and pleasure result from being able to live and accept our instincts, exerting our will to power.…