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    The problem of evil and the conflict between good and evil have been the leading concerns in some of the twentieth-century British novelist. Evil is one of the Golding’s major concerns in the novels. He identifies the existence of good but he seems to believe that evil is a more powerful force and under certain conditions would dominate human life. Lord of the Flies express in Golding’s own words “the end of innocence the darkness of man’s heart” and “the fallen state of man” is the principal…

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    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…

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    William Bennett and J.R. Tolkien represent evil in different ways. Bennett's example of evil is America's drug problem, which he addresses through its spiritual and physical aspects. Tolkien demonstrates evil through the "Balrog" (Tolkien 330). However, he only writes about its physical aspects. Bennett and Tolkien agree that evil is a physically harmful problem that requires a type of sacrifice. For William Bennett, the problem of evil is drugs. Drugs can cause extreme harm both emotionally and…

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    Sharks may be dangerous in your eyes, but really they are living things that don’t mean to hurt you. They only will kill you like if they feel threatened. Like a bee, before they sting you they feel threatened by you. So they sting you. Kinda like a shark, right? People mostly kill sharks because of their fins. Brutal People! Just Brutal! So, Save Sharks, Don’t Destroy Them. Okay, so me I personally prefer sharks not humans. Even though i am a human….. still. Humans don’t only…

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    To be honest I was a little bit confused by this story. I assumed that because it was set on June 27th 1948 that the story would be about the Berlin Airlift, because that was the day that it opened. But it was really about a small town of around three hundred people on the day of the lottery. every man picks a slip of paper and the one with a black spot on it has to have their entire family draw from the papers, including that of the black spot. whoever has it get’s “stoned.” In the case of this…

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    truthfully states, that people are shaped from their environments to either good or evil. There are several examples that show that Rousseau is correct about her opinion. For example in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding the boys did not start off evil it gradually got to that point. The boys were kind, good leaders, and organised. Now even though we cannot determine the boy's home lives. I would say we have a pretty good idea of what they’re like. As the time went on in the book, the…

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    Klosterman states ‘’the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least’’ (Klosterman 14). He argues that villains know every little detail of what they are about to do but they also care the least about the results and Wolverine is a good example to this statement.…

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    strengths is, his persona traits which were good. He was a friendly creature searching for love and to be accepted. He did teach himself and to speak. Although, he the monster did have weaknesses. For example, he sought revenge after being disrespected for quite some time, instead he should’ve accepted his appearance. This creature was very, vindictive. He would stop at nothing to seek revenge for his creator, Frankenstein. His character traits were both good and bad. He had a heart that was…

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    motivations behind performing malicious acts. Although there are many different theories about the root of evil and why wrong acts are committed, it is agreed by most theorists that evil, in fact, exists. Rousseau argues that humans are inherently good until “society's influence comes into action” (Notes). Thus, evil is learned from the outside world. The monster Grendel portrays this theory, as he learned barbaric acts from his cognizance of the…

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    Nietzsche's Evil Theory

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    Grendel, the Dragon from Grendel, Beowulf, and Macbeth. Nietzsche’s theory states that good and evil are concepts that are bad for society since it is all a matter of perspective. Nietzsche also went on to state that evil was made up by those who were not in power and used it to describe those who were in power that were “oppressing” them. He goes on to say that…

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