Good Vs Evil Analysis

Mccarthy creates a bleak post apocalyptic society through the use of imagery. He describes a world where there is no wildlife and all that’s left are the ashes. “The road was gullied eroded and barren. The bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. Middens of anonymous trash”(177). While the man and the boy travel the road, they rarely come across other living things. The boy even shows a lack of knowledge about animals, constantly asking his father questions about them. They always have to keep moving due to the constant threat of danger. Their nomadic lifestyle prevents them from becoming attached to anything. This gives the feeling of absolute isolation. Throughout the novel, the man often has dreams of life before. His dreams are described in vivid colors, "walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the

The world can make or break us, but it depends on if they let society change your way of life and being. Innocence is a trait that we are born with they do not have enough knowledge to act in evil. It is the way people are raised, society and even human nature that enhances a negative toll on people.

Literature for many years has described human nature as being evil once they fear something or are in a chaotic situation. In William Golding?s novel ?Lord of the Flies? which describes horrific exploits of a group of young boys who make a transition from civilized to barbaric. Golding

The Story, The Possibility of Evil is a truly interesting story that demonstrates the evil of a community that seems almost perfect. This story demonstrates how there is probably no place on Earth that evil has not reached. The story bases itself on a small suburban town and the people that live there. The reader meets Miss Strangeworth who is a sweet little lady that smiles to everyone during the day and starts conversations, but by the time she gets home she starts writing letters revealing secrets and unpleasant facts of her neighbours and fellow townspeople and

Throughout the novel, survival is a constant objective for the boy and his father. McCarthy’s gripping and frightening moments are most obviously interwoven with this theme. Soon after the death of his father the boy looks up and sees that “someone was coming. He started to turn and go back into the woods but he didnt. He just stood in the road and waited, the pistol in his hand” (McCarthy 281). With the approach of this new potential threat, the boy’s safety and survival are brought into question. As the strange man comes near, a tension builds while the boy tries to make a decision that could quite possibly affect the rest of his life. The tension dissipates when it is revealed that the man is not a threat, but a

In the first pages of the book McCarthy paints a vivid picture of this world through a short dialogue, “Are we going to die? Sometime. Not now. And we’re still going south. Yes. So we’ll be warm. Yes. Okay. Okay what? Nothing. Just okay. Go to sleep. Okay. I’m going

Mencius believes that the essential element of both pity and compassion. Mencius states that these two competent are the beginning of humaneness.

The argument from evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good God. It states that if there was a God with those qualities, then he would know about evil, have the power to stop evil, and because he is good, he would stop evil.

McCarthy starts his novel in the woods, where the father realises that his son and himself will not survive another winter in their current location thus having to keep moving South. As the father stares into the nothingness of the country he starts to think about his son, “He only knew that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (5). Knowing that it will get harder to survive, the father believes that his reason to keep living is because of his son. He proves this thought during the conversation between him and the little boy who asks what the father would do if he died: “If you died I would want to die too...So I could be with you” (11). The father’s only

The man mentions a few times how some survivors chose to become cannibals in order to survive, which is destructive to one’s conscience and mental stability. After seeing cannibals once, the man says to the boy, “You wanted to know what the bad guys looked like” (65). Based on the fact that the man and the boy are not cannibals, it can be assumed that they have a relatively healthier mindset and are therefore emotionally stronger than the rest of the survivors. In addition, the contrast between the good guys and bad guys serves as motivation to keep going, for most humans want the “good guys” to survive similar situations. This strength helps them survive as long as possible, compared to others that seem to get killed off

Thesis: In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the idea that someone cannot experience goodness before they discover evil is strengthened by the dynamic between the cautious father and the naive and innocent nature of the boy.

The encounters and interactions the man and boy had while on the road help develop McCarthy’s larger theme of humanity losing its selflessness when it’s in danger. For example, while the man and the boy are traveling to the coast they come across a burnt man, half-dead lying in the road. After some observation, the boy asks the man if they could “help him” but is continuously shot down by his father who repeatedly tells him to “stop it” (McCarthy 50). The Road’s setting is one of the strongest over the weak, those who can’t survive for themselves they simply won’t. This burnt man, who was struck by lightning, is an example of that as he is now in no condition to scavenge for food and medical supplies and will probably just die where he currently sits. The boy, realizing this, wanted to do something to give the man even a small chance at survival, but the man knew he was a lost cause and should be left to die. The boy and his overwhelming desire to help the dying man is representative of old society and its pressure to help those with lesser than you, ideals that were result of religious codes and churches. But in a world where none of that matters or is present, the man is what humanity has become, selfish being whom only care about

The intentions of actions help decide whether it is morally good or evil. The man has many more blurred moral situations than the boy throughout the novel. One example of this is when he kills the “roadrat”(35), out of self-defense for his son. The man assures the boy “[they] are still the good guys”(39) even after he killed the man, because his initial intent was not to harm him. McCarthy demonstrates the idea that good gets evil and evil gets evil with the outcome of the “roadrat”. He refuses not to harm the boy and man and therefore gets killed. Although this exact situation is not the basis of the norm morality in modern society, it still helps demonstrate the triumph of good. In a regular world this intention of good can be applied to simple things, such as; a small lie in order to protect others. The novel helps demonstrate principles by using the extremes. In an apocalyptic

The book written by J. Anderson Coats called “The Wicked and the Just,” is about a girl named Cecily who moves to Caernarvon with her father, leaving her relatives and friends. They moved to a manor there and her father received a job to prevent any conflict that the Welshmen causes. On the other hand, another girl named Gwenhwfar is a Welsh who becomes Cecily’s maid instead of the mistress of the manor that Cecily moved into. There are many ways to share the point of view of characters like in first-person and third-person. In this case, the story was written by the author in a dual narrative of both girls, but mainly narrative from Cecily. Since she wrote it in dual narrative, there must be a purpose to it.

“A warped piece of wood must wait until it has been laid against the straightening board, steamed, and forced into shape before it can become straight; a piece of blunt metal must wait until it has been whetted on a grindstone before it can become sharp." In this quote, Hsun Tzu, who was a philosopher (300 BCE), explains that the nature of humanity is evil. Therefore, there must be directions that indicate our way to good. Throughout the life of a human being, factors contribute to build personalities, while also creating labels in the social environment. Most of the time, humans reflect characteristics of those individuals surrounding them. Either those characteristics are good or evil, they construct