Saturday, March 21, 2009

Good vs. Evil: How does literature deal with these questions?

Literature deals with “Good vs. Evil”, in a variety of ways that both show the postive and negative outcomes. Most literature deals with the theme and concept using ‘good vs. evil’ as their main plot, following this theme though conflict and ending with morals. Authors of literature use this theme of "good vs. evil", with varies complexity for different readers at different levels, to entertain, enhance and capture the audience attention and create an image.

Authors enhance the situation where it comes down to the protagonist (good) vs. agonist (evil), using emotional settings, light effects (day/night), different shades of colour & symbols (dark alley ways and etc), and the intensity of the battle. The best way an author enhances the situation is by using rhetorical devices and the way they describe in depth detail the action from transition to the next transition.

For most cases, literature deals with good and evil, as the good defeating the evil presences, and overcoming any obstacles. The evil are dealt as the ones that lose, suffer, and die, if not change into good nature. With Aladdin, the villain/ the king I believe, is defeated by Aladdin, and gets to marry his love. The good is represented by Aladdin, while the king is represented as the villain, showing that good always win. In some cases, in more novice level literature, good does not always overcome evil; evil sometimes is on top, or the good character turns into evil.

This all depends on the type of literature you read, as for different literature depending on the context can have different outcomes for the good and evil characters, meaning that literature sometimes deals differently depending on the circumstance.

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