Throughout the movies and novels evil was represented in many ways. The action of being evil was shown differently each time. Each character portrayed being evil stronger or weaker than others. For example, Stanley Kowalski was the most evil by his bluntness and way of not caring about others feelings. O’Brien was second evil by him being secretively. Mustapha Mond is third evil due to him having access to control. Lastly Cypher would be least evil due to betrayal.
In the Ironic and sympathetic novel “A Streetcar named desire” Stanley Kowalski showed how evil he really can be. Kowalski had suspected the minuet Stella’s sister Blanche had walked in something wasn’t right about her. He felt as though as if she lost belle reve and family members had died that she should have some inherences. But Blanche claims there was no insurance so she spent all her money on funerals and the house was given up.
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He has very strong power. Mond states “But as I make the laws here, I can also break them” (BNW). He is explaining that he can break the rules and suffer no consequence because he has power. Mond has freedom to do whatever and get away with it in this world. By him having upper level power makes him not guilty for things he might do. The only thing that makes him evil and third evil is that he has control over the people.
In the science fiction movie “The matrix” Cypher comes off as the least evil. Cypher is betraying to others to help himself. He has given up codes that were private. Also he is taking lives form people by stealing them. Cypher comes off as selfish. He states “Ignorance is bliss” (The Matrix). The meaning explains don’t worry about something you don’t know. He is not as important as the other characters listed in the books which makes him least evil. He doesn’t prove or have much evidence on how he can be evil to others. This I why Cypher is least
When you are surrounded by evil people do you let them corrupt you or stick to your morals? Corruption is very prevalent in the book Scythe by Neal Shusterman. The main characters have to fight and resist corruption, villany, and malicious people. These characters represent different archetypes as well. Rowan and Citra, the main characters, represent the hero and the explorer respectively.
That’s how I feel about Peter and Ender the two boys always at eachother’s throats In Ender’s Game Colonel Graf and the instructors are training the boys and girls to be soldiers to fight against evil. Although, the evil ones are the instructors because they tricked Ender into wiping out a whole species. Also when someone gets hurt they don’t really care about them getting better which I think is pretty darn evil to me.
Good and Evil in Ender’s game Good and evil often clash in social situations and this grey line is where the author Orson Card bases the behavior of the characters. There are several characters in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card who embody the author's concept of good and evil. Ender Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, and Valentine Wiggin are three examples of characters who exemplify this idea. Ender Wiggin
Blanche's role being a Southern Belle amongst the white elite which dominated the South during the early and mid-1900s displayed the deepness of Southern roots such as wanting to marry a respectable man, and being dedicated to her family and the community. During this time Southern Belles like Blanche “. . . have always depended on the kindness of strangers”, or relied solely on the income of their spouses, in which most obtained through the business of cotton plantations. Her necessity to the kind-heartedness of strangers instead of being self-dependent is the cause as to why she has not been well off in her life. However; due to the abolition of slavery and victory of the confederates the white elite struggled to maintain wealth which forced Southern Belles to seek other means to support their lavish appearance. Blanche who indeed maintained a lifestyle of wealth was forced to sell her cotton plantation after her husband completed suicide.
The archetype I chose was The Evil Figure with Ultimately Good Heart which meaning is; a devil figure with the potential to be good, this person is usually saved by the love of the hero. This archetype has been represented by many movies, books, and video games. The archetype of The Evil Figure with Ultimately Good Heart is shown in the movie "Despicable Me" by Gru who is a cold-hearted man who 's only objective is to become the world 's greatest villain. It is also shown in the movie "Shrek" by Shrek an evil ogre that is feared and wanted dead by many in the valley where his beloved swamp resides. It also appears in Hades who is the king of the underworld ruler of the dead in Greek mythology.
His true villain status is also seen in his redemption with how easily he manipulates his brother into forgiving him. Edmund did horrible things and Edgar forgives him right then and there because of a few speeches from his brother. Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, is the true villain
What makes a character ‘bad’ and criminal? A criminal is a person who is a wrongdoer in which the outcome benefits solely for himself. A ‘bad’ character is a person who is unwelcoming and unpleasant. Knowing this, Abul Khaizuran from ‘Men in the Sun’ by Ghassan Kanafani, does not identify with such characteristics. Keeping in mind that the novella’s setting is taken place a few years after the all-out attack on Palestine and they are going from Basra to Kuwait and during the corrupted society of Palestinians, Abul Khaizuran puts his life on the line to help Abu Qais, Assad and Marwan by smuggling them into Kuwait.
It is what is haunting Blanche’s life, it is what has made her mentally unstable. Throughout the play, she has been hiding her past from people so she looks like
Both Blanche's family and Belle Reve represent her dream to indulge in a sophisticated, high class, and luxurious life. When all of Blanche’s family dies and Stella leaves, Blanche loses the first piece of her “beautiful dream.” She no longer has the money to support herself, since her educational career provides insufficient funds. After the tragic loss of her husband, Blanche loses Belle Reve and loses her job, symbolizing that her “beautiful dream” has been fully crushed and the only remnants of her dream are the lies she feeds herself. This fall of social class leads Blanche to carry a tone of classism.
His vampire brides assist to Dracula’s dark deeds. What they all have in common is that they prey upon humans. On the other hand, the characters that are considered “good” in the novel are Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood. Throughout the novel, the good characters are constantly doing generous deeds to save others from Dracula.
Dr. Jekyll is seemingly good, kind, and benevolent; while is not purely good he is a moral gentleman. He started his experiment so he could totally separate the bad and the good in himself into two separate beings. He did not succeed, however, for Dr. Jekyll is plagued by the feeling that he wants to become evil again, thus he wants to become Mr. Hyde. It is important to note that Mr. Hyde is completely evil; he has no goodness in him, in contrast to Dr. Jekyll who was a troubled mix. Mr. Hyde feels no remorse for any evil he has done and actually feels elated when he does commit a moral sin.
To hide her true self, Blanche restored to duplicity, coupled with her voracious desire and ubiquitous deception caused her a breakdown. In the following paragraphs, there will be more events that led Blanche to such end. One of the things that led Blanche to her downfall is the past. The past, where she was the reason why she lost her husband, Alan, he
The character role of Blanche in the play, A Streetcar Named Desire was full of fantasy and delusion where Stella and Stanley started to live a life in romance. The place names were real, the journey foreshadowed Blanche’s psyche orientation throughout the play. Blanche’s desires had led her down paths of bad sexual relation and alcoholism, and by making contact with the Kowalski; she had crossed the limit. Blanche’s desire to escape made her to isolate from the world around her. By the end of the play, Blanche could no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Evil is a simple word that we learn at a young age and that we understand is bad. However, our youth and innocence prevents us from knowing the weight the word holds. As our understanding of evil develops, we begin to see evil all around us. Although we hold common societal definitions of evil, each person is bound to view evil slightly different from others. Someone might consider alcoholism evil, while others consider it normal: someone might believe racism is evil, while others believe it is natural.
In conclusion, Shylock is a villian who wants to take out his angry for christians out on Antonio. The archetypal lense shows that Shylock is a villain because archetype describe a villain as someone who stands out from others and represents sin. Shylock represents the two sins, wrath and