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Evil and Self-Destruction in "Macbeth" and "Heart of Darkness"

home and sees his wife. He tells her of the prophesy and she immediately sees that the way for him to get the crown is to kill the...

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

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...

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...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Reasons for the Importance of Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy

demonstrate that while the philosopher uses rather simple concepts, his method of production and use of language helps to propel t...

Free Spirit Concept in Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

neighbor is henceforth called evil" (201). Evil does not come about by acts of omission but rather by deliberate intent. It is the...

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...

Profiting from the World Trade Center Attack

try and find out about people who are (or have) made money directly from the tragedy and see what we can find about them. Here, ...

The Evil in Humanity: Jackson’s The Lottery

a coveted prize! However, the prize is anything but coveted. The Lottery begins in a simple community, a little town that ...

Good and Evil in "The Grand Inquisitor"

the Church, without miracles, than from Jesus: "Receiving bread from us, they will see clearly that we take the bread made by thei...

Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

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...

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...

Scorsese's "Who's That Knocking At My Door" And "Mean Streets" - Brief Analysis

business transactions occur within the city limits, not to mention the fact that some of the wealthiest people choose to hang thei...

Government by Homicide

at the beginning of the play that bears his name, grows increasingly evil throughout the drama. This paper argues that his crime i...

The Problem of Evil: An Overview

refers to the textbook that you provided links to. The brief said to reference this book, but your links gave no indication of the...

Jackson's The Lottery and Obsolete Tradition

principal rationalization behind the lottery when he says, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson). Warner disparages thos...

"Some Moral Minima" by Lenn Goodman

Goodman presents challenges to relativism, which is the view that morality is relative and that ethical truths are dependent on th...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

Evil in Modern Thought

Thought. Author: Susan Neiman). As it pertains to what the author offers up, in similar respects concerning human nature, regardi...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

not aware of prior to the drug, and it could well be argued that it inspired him to write this story, a story that delves into the...

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...

Humanity Both Good and Evil on The Road

is a bleak and uncompromising look at what mankinds future might be after some unspecified disaster. The picture is ugly and unset...

The Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...