Good vs. Evil. The theme every book, movie or story deals with at least once. We even deal with it in our real world. The issue becomes even greater when the evil matches the good, like Sherlock and Moriarty or Guy and Bruno. The combination of the protagonist and the antagonist creates a crisis which can only be solved if both parties cease to exist or one part gives in their role. We see this in both “Sherlock” BBC series and in the movie “Strangers on a Train” where both sets of doubles demonstrate the need of the other member for existence.
In “Sherlock” we are introduced to Moriarty the world's best consulting criminal we directly begin to notice the doubles complex knowing that Sherlock Holmes is the world's best consulting detective.
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The scene starts of outside the train station with a panning shot of the feet of both characters all the way till they sit next to each other on the train. You could tell they are opposites from their feet because Guy has the all black regular dress shoes and is wearing a looser fit suit and holding a tennis racket while Bruno has a pair of very fashionable black and white dress shoes and is wearing a fitted sit. This shows us a lot about the too characters for example we learn that Guy is a tennis player and doesn't have the financial backing like that of Bruno who seems to be a wealthy person with an unclear profession. The panning shot also illustrates the difference between the two by the way they walk one is walking from bottom left to top right and the other is walking bottom right to top left. After the two characters sit next to each other on the train the happen to bump feet and Bruno notices Guy because of Guy’s tennis career and the fact that he’s been in the news lately because his potential marriage to Anne Morton. It is also revealed that both characters are having their lives obstructed due to a single person in Guy’s case it's his ex wife and in Bruno’s case it's his father. This shows how they are both dealing with equivalent conflicts but Bruno proposes an idea where they can both deal with solve each other's conflicts. Guy
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (Lewis, 1994, p. 91). Throughout history man has had to struggle with the problem of evil. It is one of the greatest problems of the world. Unquestionably, there is no greater challenge to man’s faith then the existence of evil and a suffering world. The problem can be stated simply: If God is an all-knowing and all-loving God, how can He allow evil? If God is so good, how can He allow such bad things to happen?Why does He allow bad things to happen to good people? These are fundamental questions that many Christians and non-Christians set out to answer.
Macbeth is a play, written by Shakespeare, about a soldier who is overtaken by ambition. The soldier, Macbeth, starts out as a loyal soldier who fights for Scotland. As the play progresses, Macbeth becomes more and more evil, killing whoever is a threat to him. Evil overtakes good for Macbeth.
Some of the myths of cosmic conflict that John incorporates into his vision of the universal struggle between good and evil include Gnosticism views. This deals with the “myth about creation and the spirit realm” (Harris, 2014, p. 422). This myth actually became a well-organized group who believed that our physical world on earth was corrupt and created by a lesser god (Harris, 2014). These practices also believed humans were trapped in our bodies and the only way to be freed was to gain knowledge of the higher power (Harris, 2014).
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces"~Philip Zimbardo. It is hard to not cross the line between good and evil because if someone is getting you mad, you might want to harm them in some way. But you have keep your cool and let it go. Being good or evil is your own choice. Even if you are good, you always have an evil side. This quote fits perfectly because it talks about how evil is really only in people under certain situations. People are essentially good, but under certain circumstances, turn evil.
One day when Shmuel gets sent to shine glasses at his house him and Bruno start talking. A soldier see them and Bruno told him he didn’t know who he was, and the soldier beats the boy, Bruno feels terrible and want to make it up to Shmuel. Bruno wants to understand why the life behind the fence is so awful and why Shmuel isn’t happy. Bruno thinks it’s not better, but interesting because there are other kids to play with. They form a strong bond that can't be broken by anything and it makes him realize that his friends in Berlin weren't as special as Shmuel is and their friendship. The two boys have been talking and have been friends for about a year and decide that Bruno wants to go on the other side of the fence to see what its like and help him find his papa.
Carol A. Senf uses a critical theory lens when she picks apart Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The majority of literary critics interpret this popular myth to be the opposition of good and evil, they turn a blind eye to the more specifically literary matters such as method of narration, characterization, and style. Carol Senf’s critical essay “Dracula: the Unseen Face in the Mirror” she believes that Stokers novel “revolves, not around the conquest of Evil by Good, but on the similarities between the two” (Senf 421). Her argument is as follows:
“All that necessary for the triumph of evil is when good men do nothing”. Edmund Burke once stated this and he is more than correct. The history of the constant battles between good and evil can be explained through this quote. We see good people who are more than capable of stopping an opposing force, doing nothing at all. This could be from lack of self will, lack of skill or just the naivete of the person. George Orwell’s Animal Farm displays this perfectly. Many animals could have stopped those wretched others, but close not to. The evil, which is portrayed through the pigs, is able to succeed because animals who are seen as good, being Jessie, Muriel and Boxer, do nothing to stop it from taking the puppies, do not resist when forced to work, and they do not ever expose it as an actual evil force.
After concluding the role of Sherlock Holmes as a detective in the story of the Speckled Band, I know that he was one of the most famous detectives in the world, and he bought into the world of detectives different skills and abilities, also, bought his own natural talent and set some very high standards, which detectives these days find
What draws the line between good and evil? Individuals have the power to choose either one in their actions. Do factors such as a situation, the environment, or a learned behavior have an influence on human behavior? Individuals are influenced by situations which make them behave differently than normal. Individuals have the need to be accepted in society. What causes individuals to have the feeling of being accepted in society in order to fit in? The hypothesis suggests everyone is influenced by their environment and by certain situations. Society has painted the image that individuals need to be accepted by others and are willing to forget themselves in order to get accepted.
The acclaimed authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, formulate the characters of Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes respectively, to be similar in the way that they analyze, deduce, and connect segments of desperate and often-thought “unsolvable” detective cases. Through their comparable techniques and system of deduction, Dupin and Holmes never fail to trace back their evidence to the scene of the crime. However, due to the vast difference in the writing styles of Poe and Doyle, the audience observes the main characters not as clones, but rather an analogous pair that think alike, but do not act alike. The personalities of Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, although present are recognizable differences in their actions, continue to
Six years ago a little girl from my church approached me and asked why the devil existed, and why bad things happen. At the moment I was a little perplexed and did not know what to say. All that came to my mind was that humankind needed a scapegoat to blame for the occurrence of unfavorable incidents. Blaming adverse conditions on the devil is the easy and obvious way out of any situation. All one has to do is to say that the devil was the cause of the situation and wash his hands of the entire problem. At twelve years old, I thought that humanity used the devil as a way to elude responsibility and to ignore the consequences of its actions.
“…And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” (Matthew 6:9-13) As it says in the Bible, we wish to be led astray from evil. However, evil is a very curious subject. For most intensive purposes, evil can be described as cruel, heinous, and unnecessary punishment. Evil is a relatively accepted concept in the world today, although it is not completely understood. Evil is supposedly all around us, and at all times. It is more often than not associated with a figure we deem Satan. Satan is said to be a fallen angel, at one point God’s favorite. Supposedly Satan tries to spite God by influencing our choices, and therefore our lives. However, this presents a problem: The Problem of Evil. This argues against the existence of God. Can God and evil coexist?
the protagonist versus the antagonist or a good versus evil narrative. The most easily recognized
In Suicide Squad, the author uses the archetypes Good vs. Evil,tyrant, hero, mentor, and the traitor to reveal that we as humans fall to evil when we are independent, but we can accomplish more if we work as a team for good instead of evil. We can relate to this theme in the movie when the villains were evil by themselves, but they collaborated to use their power for good. This Theme relates to the whole story.
Good and evil are more connected to each other than what people give them credit for. Good coexists with evil and there can be no good unless there is also an evil. Something that benefits a society would be considered good. On the other hand, if it does not benefit a society, it would be considered evil. The term good and evil can be associated with whatever a person sets their moral to be.