Evil Triumphs

As said by, “No matter how hard evil trys, it can never quite match up to the power of good.” In most works of literature, evil will usually start with small victories but in the end evil will be caught, exposed, or stopped by a form of good. As said by an anonyms author, “Evil triumphs, but never concurs”. This quote is a great example to describe literature because of how it matches the plots. This quote describes many novels such as Speak, Lord of the Flies, and To Kill a Mockingbird. In all of these novels evil gains small victories, but in the end good always wins by either exposing evil, catching evil, or stopping evil.

The novel Speak, by Laurie Anderson, illustrates the idea of evil triumphing, but not conquering when the main character Melinda is raped by Andy Evans, but in the end she overcomes the evil and exposes Andy. When Melinda is

Bob Ewell, who represents evil, completes a small triumph which is shown when Scouts recalls, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.” (Lee 203). Bob Ewell, the evil, got Tom Robinson convicted despite he being innocent. Although evil won the small victory, but in the end it didn’t conquer this shown when Mr. Tate says, “Bob Ewell’s lyin’ on the ground under the tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He’s dead, Mr. Finch. ” The fact that Bob Ewell dies shows that evil doesn’t conquer. In To Kill a Mockingbird evil triumphs but doesn’t