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Evil in The Tragedy of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

close. Certainly the setting Shakespeare has created for the play is much like the fairy-tale world of As You Like It; it purports...

A Comparison of A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Tempest

In this seven page paper these two classic plays are compared and contrasted in regard to allegorical reference, imagery, locale, ...

Ambiguity in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

time: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Written in during the last part of his life, Stevensons story was an immediate success. It ...

Ian McKellan's Film 'Richard III' and Evil

In six pages this paper examines how evil is portrayed in this cinematic interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Richard III' wit...

Taking Chances in The Stand, Desperation, and Insomnia by Stephen King

this is the same evil that invades the minds and souls of killer postal workers, schoolyard murderers, and child abusers? King al...

Religious Redemption in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes evil forces in this tragedy and how redemption is portrayed within the context of the Elizabetha...

Philosophical Problem of Evil

In five pages this paper examines the problem of moral, natural, and physical evil in philosophy and assesses the validity of argu...

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

In five pages the grandmother and the Misfit characterizations are examined with the context of good and evil and how those assump...

Evil Characterizations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville's Billy Budd

In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

Life and Times of Maximilien Robespierre

In seven pages this paper discusses Robespierre as he really was and not the incarnate of evil history too often presents him as. ...

Freedom of Choice and Evil According to Aristotle and Saint Augustine of Hippo

This paper contrasts and compares how choice and evil were conceptualized by Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Eight sources are cit...

Evil According to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and Henry James

battling with his conscious for some time, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson, who is Jims owner that tell where Jim is. Afterwar...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

William Shakespeare's Use of Evil in Richard III and Macbeth

In six pages this paper examines how Shakespeare timelessly depicts evil in each play. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Head vs. Heart

In 5 pages this paper offers a character contrast of 'evil' Roger Chillingworth who leads by his head and 'good' Hester Prynne who...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Suffering and Evil

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

Billy and John Claggart in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Evil and Death

It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we...

Good and Evil in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote from Beyond Good and Evil and its Validity

The validity of the quote 'In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule' featured ...

Comparing Evil in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Paradise Lost

structures, with Colridge following an old sailor with a ship that has gone off course, and Milton depicts war between heave and h...

A Rhetorical Strategy Analysis

In five pages the practice of 'wilding' and its evil influence are examined in terms of biased diction, definition, irony, and met...

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 ...

Bhagavad Gita and Concepts of Good and Evil

Ovey Mohammed states that for both Krishna and Jesus, "God has made salvation possible to all by becoming incarnate" (Mohammed 664...

Free Will, Creation, and God

In five pages questions regarding free will, evil, sin, and creation in Catholic theology, and God in the Christian perspective ar...