Notions of good and evil are essentially dependent on social and cultural constructs, making conflicts over morality open to debate. ... A symbol of alienation is Anna who doesn't connect emotionally. ... This creates a discordant effect and positions the responders to realize that perhaps within this post-modern world evil may prevail over good. ... Leaves are a symbol of life and the falling of leaves represents the loss of kindness, emotions and crisis of values in human race. ... The film is a window into the future of the Cold War where global conflicts between good and evil were t...

• Word Count: 1036
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... William Golding uses religious allegory to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. ... The evil within man is shown through Jack who is quickest to bare his animalistic and savage ways and untie his strings with civilization. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the sow's...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The primary moods of classic film noir are typically melancholy, alienation, disillusionment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, desperation and paranoia. ... It was the style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s that became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 which was marked by Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), described as the "last" film of the classic film noir era. ... A symbol of her power over him dwells in her anklet, a very erotic quality at the time, and he is immedi...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Italian fascism, in adopting the old Roman symbol of authority (the fasces), looked back to the days of the Roman Empire, which controlled much of Western Europe. ... For Hitler, in identifying "goodness" and "superiority" with "us," there was a tendency to identify "evil" with "them." ...

• Word Count: 1866
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This fact plus the fact that the Allied nations needed to find a way to punish the Nazi aggressors and redress the evils they inflicted upon Europe forced them to invent a trial format which they deemed would appear as fair as could be constructed given the post-war circumstances (www.courttv.com/nuremberg/legacy.html). ... Using a trial format, which the majority of the world perceives as a symbol of justice, seemed the correct venue to obtain this closure. "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an...

• Word Count: 2850
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this time the automobile would be elevated to the level of a celebrated symbol of such juxtapositions as individuality and conformity, tradition and modernity, and uniqueness and mass production. ...

• Word Count: 7127
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate