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Book Thief Essay Through the skillful use of indoctrination one can make people believe one race is better than another or that an extremely wretched life is paradise. Uncritically believing and following someone because one has been conditioned to, is an essential aspect in the novel “The Book Thief”. In the novel, by Markus Zusak there are several significant moments that protrude to let the reader concentrate on the overall motif of indoctrination. Zusak portrays the motif of indoctrination…

influences of racism through several political reforms in Afghanistan especially in the 1990s when the Taliban had authority over Kabul fueled the antagonist with discriminative racial concepts. The antagonist represents all entities, which were considered evil; he lacks morals alongside his aspiration towards Nazism. The manifestation of the merciless and violent behavior of Assef, throughout the novel, is indicated through his sexual, verbal and physical abuse…

The immoral acquisition and abuse of authority is facilitated by the presumption of inherent human morality within political systems. This is the dominant intertextual perspective between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, examined through the values of stability and morality within politics. Texts, as manifestations of values and attitudes, are incontrovertibly influenced by their distinct contexts. As such, though an intertextual perspective may exist…

In the “Minister's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to represent secret sin and shows the theme is death. The main character named Mr. Hooper wears a black veil In the story Hooper wears a black veil which symbolizes hiding sin. “But what if the world will not believe that it is the type of an innocent sorrow?” urged Elizabeth. “Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office,…

A Mirror of Human Nature(An Analysis of Lord of the Flies) The title of the novel Lord of the Flies, the King of Fly, originates from Hebrew baalzebub, and "Baal" in the Bible is regarded as "the first of all evils". In English, the Lord of the Flies is the King of filth and a synonym for hideous souls. It seems to mean that the beast conquered the human nature, children are afraid of the false "beast", in the end, but found that the real "beast" is in human nature lurking in the beast. The…

If good and evil do exist everybody and their actions must be considered as either good or evil. The question though is who determines a person and their actions as good or evil. Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph R. Farinaccio define good and evil differently from one another in their books. Joseph R. Farinaccio tells what good and evil are from a Christian worldview and that it is God who allowed both good and evil to exist. Friedrich Nietzsche, on the other hand, tells how the meaning of…

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck is a novel that heavily relies on the concept of good versus evil. Without this concept, many storylines would chang and the setting of the story would also be different. East of Eden has many prominent topics and arguable points, however a major part of the story is that good versus evil has a major impact on the novel and is a central idea in the dichotomy in the book. Also, many characteristics of characters can relate to events that happen in the book of…

definition of evil is the “exercise of power” (“The Psychology of Evil”), according to psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In consonance with this definition, people execute an evil act “to intentionally harm people psychologically, to hurt people physically, to destroy people mortally, or ideas, and to commit crimes against humanity” (Zimbardo, “The Psychology of Evil”). Based on this, evil is committed with the intention to inflict harm on people and the environment. The incentive to perform evil…

One of the more boggling notions in ethics is the verdict between what is bad and good. One of the viewpoints posits that good and bad is correlative and it depends on the perception. What might be normal for the spider is a chaos for the fly. It is a notion between harm and help. Doing harm to a side just for the other to benefit is tolerable as the outcome is considered as dynamic to all. The product will always give reason for the development. A temptation to help those in need will always…

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay What can one say about the relationship between good and evil? It is the coexistence of what is pure and innocent and what is dark and vile. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the thin line of this theme is shown throughout the novel and is hard to miss. Such as when Boo protects the kids from a fire and Bob Ewell, the mockingbird as a symbol purity and innocence, and Atticus defending Tom as a black man in a predominately white community of the…