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Elie Wiesel's Night

relationship between the protagonist and his father as well as issues of religious faith (Danks 101). Again, these are coming of a...

'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...

Themes of Jean Paul Sartre as Perceived by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper considers how Nietzsche might evaluate Sartre's primary themes and then consider how The Handmaiden's Tal...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Judaism and Christianity on Evil

In 3 pages this paper discusses how Judaism and Christianity define evil. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....

Evil in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

Triumphant But Not Conquering Evil in Literature

In five pages this paper examines Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye within the context of ...

Happiness and the Existentialism of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines what conditions the German philosopher established pertaining to the human need for happiness as...

Good and Evil Characterizations

work? If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the de...

Dualities and Opposites of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

The opposites and dualities that appear in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne are analyzed in 5 pages with Puritan ethics and...

Ethics of the Epicureans

his letter to Men?ceus. In it, he tells Men?ceus that it "is right then for a man to consider the things which produce happiness,...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown' and the Theme of Evil

Evil is examined as it is thematically represented in two famous Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories in a paper consisting of 6 page...

Good and Evil in a Critique of Macbeth

Good and evil in William Shakespeare's Macbeth are a main source of three literary critiques. This paper offers a tutorial lesson ...

Differences Between Holocaust Personalities Stangl and Eichmann

In five pages a determination as to whether Stangl and Eichmann are two different authors or two different people are examined wit...

Good and Evil According to Philosophers William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, St. Augustine of Hippo, and Aristotle

In six pages this paper discusses the modern and classical concepts of good and evil as conceptualized by these philosophers. Fiv...

Philosophy of Good and Evil

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the philosophy of good and evil is analyzed in Christina Sommers' edited essay co...

An Analysis of the Batman film

The film Batman, released in 1989, is the focus of attention in this seven page paper that uses no additional sources. Characteriz...

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and the Evil of Money

In five pages tis paper examines the text by Ayn Rand within the context of the statement, 'So you think that money is the route o...

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' the Devil, and God

In five pages this paper examines 'Paradise Lost' from Satan's vantage point in a consideration of how his role was not evil but r...

Iago and Claudius as Villains in Othello and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In 7 pages this paper analyzes the evil represented by villains Iago and Claudius in these Shakespearean plays. There are 3 sourc...

Concepts of Good and Evil in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

source in Ivanhoe, helping the reader to immediately understand the direction Scott is heading with his opposing forces. Th...

Iago and Hannibal Lecter Evil Characters

In three pages these evil characters from William Shakespeare's Othello and Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs are compared. Th...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Beowulf and Gilgamesh

In seven pages topics of general intent, good, evil, and heroism are related to the epic tales of 'Beowulf' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

Thematic Analysis of Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow

In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...

The Un-Human Enemies of Beowulf

The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

The Problem of Evil and Augustine’s Idea of Free Choice

thinkers in the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual plea...

Progress and the Byproduct of Global Governance

In five pages this paper discusses global governance as necessitated by progressive globalization in an assessment of whether or n...

The Birds by Director Alfred Hitchcock

In a report consisting of six pages the notion of seemingly harmless creatures turning on innocent residents of a northern Califor...