Inner evil

     As children grow older, their minds are filled with many questions. A large portion of these questions are difficult, complicated, and often times unanswerable. Children are left to struggle with them throughout life. They look for answers to these questions anywhere possible, and often they turn to the guidance that adults provide. Adults can provide a foundation from which children can grow, but they can provide only a certain amount of advice to help children deal

have secrets. Everyone has another side to them that they do not show in the eyes of the public. Hawthorne uses the symbol of darkness to show throughout his literary works that all people sin. Archetypally, darkness represents chaos, mystery, death, evil, fear. Darkness in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, shows the author's point of view on the Puritan society. Hawthorne’s use of archetypal symbolism of darkness to describe Puritans suggests Hawthorne’s view on Puritan society was anything but pure and

The clash between good and evil arises with Faustus' split morality. The Good and Bad Angels signify the struggle concerning his support to knowledge and his desire for supremacy. It most deliberately represent the qualities of good against evil while the Good Angel tells Faustus to "think of heaven and heavenly things" although the Bad Angel tells Faustus to "think of honor and wealth"

Evil refers to physical pain, mental suffering and moral wickedness. This pain includes such major scourges as poverty, oppression, persecution, war, all injustice, indignity and inequality that occur in human societies. It is however, important to note that although a great deal of pain and suffering are caused by human action, there is much more that arises from natural causes as bacteria and earthquakes, storm, fire, lightening, flood and drought. Another type of evil that can be identified is

In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson provides insight into the inner workings of the duality that exists within humans. Dr. Jekyll is a well-respected doctor in his community while his differing personality Mr. Hyde is hideous and considered by the public as evil based on appearance. As the novel progresses Dr. Lanyon begins to investigate Mr. Hyde, he begins to realize similarities between both Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll such as their handwriting which

LOTF: Good vs Evil Change is inevitable. In Lord of the Flies, three of the characters represent how the human condition can change. Each character handles situations and conditions differently. Their conflicts challenge their existence and eventually lead to their demise. In Lord of the Flies, during the wage of war between good and evil, the true face of everyone is revealed, whether it be Roger, Simon, or the children as a group. There are a lot of ways that good and evil are represented in

The evil that lies within man is revealed sooner or later. November 18, 1978 a man name Jim Jones brainwashed 918 people and he made all of them drink a combination of cyanide and other prescription drugs. Jim Jones was a normal man with normal thoughts but eventually an evil within took him over. With the murder of 918 people the evil that laid within him was officially revealed. William Golding's novel, The Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of boys stranded on an island creating and

The Conscious Good of Unconscious Evil Questioning the world as observers and contemplating what constitutes a moral code versus following the norm play a major role in self growth. The frustrating contradictions of one’s self-aware mind begins to unwind into its own understanding of what’s real and the illusion. Illusions can be underlined with beliefs, faith and perception of someone’s own experiences and mistakes. The Mistakes that are made throughout a lifetime are essential to understanding

whether the evil quality in humans is an inborn trait, or something that is attained through various experiences. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys experience the transition to evil in which took humans millions of years to emerge from. Humans are undoubtably born with the quality of being evil, but how it is covered or 'shoved under the rug' is what causes us to see it differently within a society. This behavior that society has come to recognize as evil can almost be

the other. In the article, “Good and Evil, The Nature of the Soul,” author Laura Aversano describes man’s relationship with good and evil this way: The soul stemming from stillness, creates a unified relationship between good and evil at its essential core and understanding from the way that God intended. As the collective and personal soul unfolds into various levels, good and evil takes on its own form within the various levels of understanding. Good and evil become personified from ego levels