Contrasting Perceptions of Good and Evil: Lessons from Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis Introduction The battle between good and evil is found to be one of the most common themes in literature and at times believed to play a universal role in the human condition. Given that there are variations to this notion; one being the external conflict between individuals or ideologies and the other being an internal struggle within oneself. One of the earliest accounts of such conflicts is in Genesis 3:1-7, where
LIT2020-0005 19 April 2015 “Good Country People”: The Epitome of the Anarchistic Writing of Flannery O’ Connor Flannery O’Connor is a zealous Roman Catholic of southern descent, who writes in a radically different fashion than her equivalents of the time, focusing entirely on controversial issues of morality rather than racial discrimination. She ventures through the moral uncertainty of all human beings in demonstrating the moral ambiguity of characters in “Good Country People,” published in her
The problem of evil has been used by atheists to undermine religion for decades. The idea that a just god could not possibly exist within a world that is plagued with so much pain and suffering constantly haunts skeptical believers. In the Brothers Karamazov Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky, conveys this paradox of a benevolent god with an unjust world by first doubting god’s existence, then following up with what he feels to be an adequate response.Through this excerpt of The Brothers Karamazov
However, the fact that with his atheistic struggles he couldn’t help himself let alone all human kind should prompt the awareness of all relevant factors that have been given the sacred task of educating young modern men. Namely, as a person he was deeply unhappy, melancholic and suicidal. He was also a person who saw himself fully in the light of the Romantic Era, an artist who based his existence upon a constant struggle to create and re-create new meanings, a person who frantically