Beowulf In every society that exists on this earth in any given time period, there will always be a present evil that will continually battle against that forces of good. This continuous and monotonous strife will forever persevere until one force, either good or evil, becomes immortally invincible. ... The first impression that the reader perceives of Grendel is that he is "that demon, that fiend, who haunted the moors, the wild marshes, and made his home in a hell, not hell but earth." ... In addition, the verity that Grendel is attacking Herot, which is understood to be a...

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For example, in the beginning the gods created the ocean and the creatures that lived in the sky and in the ocean, but later in the story, the Iroquois woman who fell from the sky becomes the creator of the earth and all the land features. ... Also another interesting similarity is that in both tales descendants of this first woman, in both stories, two brothers ended up as enemies and that they represent the eternal battle between good and evil. The two brothers in each of the tales oppose each other; however, in the Iroquois one the good brother kills the evil brother, while in Genesi...

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Thus, it is no coincidence that the grandmother is later specified to be 2,000 years old, which happens to be when Christian theology reads God's first coming to Earth. ... An overall theme of good versus evil is present in The Princess and the Goblin, just as it is in religion. ... The goblins only come out at night, or in the absence of the light in which is perceived to be a source of good. Likewise, the human characters (grandmother, Irene, Curdie, etc.) are depicted as good, fighting the good fight. This battle between good and evil is clear, and ends the novel with good winning jus...

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Man is in eternal conflict with himself and with his surroundings because of the coexistence of good and evil both within and around him. It is therefore necessary for him to encounter these evil forces to be able to make a distinction between the good and the bad in order to recognize and resist the immoral. "Young Goodman Brown," a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the disillusionment of the story's protagonist, on encountering evil and discovering that evil is more prevalent than good in the world. ... While his resolve to remain good is strong, he must decide only after enc...

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While the classic battle between good and evil forces is a major theme of the medieval epic "Beowulf," one may question whether these good and evil forces are as black and white as they appear. ... This ultimately evokes traces of sympathy in the reader for the plight of these "monster" figures, and blurs the fine line between good and evil within the poem The first opponent Beowulf must face in the land of the Danes is Grendel, textually described as "a fiend out of hell a grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round the heath and the desolate fens" (Beowulf, line 1...

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