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Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

Augustine of Hippo and Evil

"middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his sinful or evil behavior, he mainta...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Premise of Good and Evil

two different personalities (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). It has been said that the "first version of Robert Louis Stevensons Strang...

Evil Element in the Works of Thomas Hardy and William Golding

the Flies, the book that centers on how a group of boys behaves when they are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. As ...

Evil and Characterizations in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...

Universal Confusion and Evil in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

be credited to each authors belief in the universality of evil and disorder, an evil and disorder which often as not can be relate...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

Good and Evil as Depicted in Othello by William Shakespeare

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

Evil in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

Macbeth's Character Traits

battle, but this passive character allows others to control his fate. One cannot deny that Macbeth expresses a unique fascinatio...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Theme of Evil in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

is not the impression one gets from reading The Prince," for according to Oldham it "becomes clear to the reader that Machiavelli ...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

Evil Temptation in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

Othello by William Shakespeare and 3 Different Perspectives

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

Philosophy, Humanness and the Concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

Competing Ideologies in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

in society. The way the book is presented may be interpreted as propaganda, with every event appearing to be purposefully chosen t...

Fate in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...

Demons, the Answer Book by Lester Sumrall

of blaming the victim for not being spiritually "pure" is something that goes back to the Middle Ages when the plague was thought ...

Evil Optimism and the Works of Voltaire and Alexander Pope

of Francois-Marie Arouet, who wrote under the name of Voltaire, the optimistic mode of thinking such as that of Pope and the many ...

Good and Evil Morality Concepts

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

Analyzing The Stand by Stephen King

Despite the obvious panic, a visibly ailing President of the United States attempts to reassure a shaken nation by vehemently deny...

Emerging Victorious Over Evil in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

In five pages this paper examines how evil is conquered by Margarita and Ivan in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Fou...

'Descartes' Evil Genius' by O.K. Bouwsma

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...