Thus, Shakespeare portrays Richard as an ambitious and evil character. ... Due to the significance of religion in the Elizabethan era, and Richard's subversion of religious conventions, Shakespearean audience were positioned to perceive Richard as an immoral and evil character. ... Consequently, Shakespeare represents Richard as an evil character with the ability to manipulate people by his fine oratory skills. ... High modality and repetition of 'everything' emphasises the condescension of political figures that Richard represents in both the Elizabethen era and modern context...

• Word Count: 1029
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I feel Antonio's fear of the llano represents his dependence on his family. ... Antonio's confrontation with ideas of good and evil are shown in his use of religion to try to understand the world. ... Antonio's open mind allows him to realize that both religions represent different ways of making sense of the same issues of life, death, good, and evil. ... Antonio's friends represent the collective social voice, as many people in the community feel that Ultima's cure is witchcraft. ... Ernie's mean-spirited teasing is Antonio's first real taste of this pheno...

• Word Count: 3136
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. The color black is used traditionally to represent evil, taking the form of sin and the Devil in 'The Crucible.' Black can be interpreted as to represent the entire spectrum of corrupt behavior, where a character such as Abigail is often associated with darkness, threatening to attack the other girls "in the black of night," and the stain on her name and reputation. ... We understand that human nature can lead people astray to commit evil acts; however the reader is in complete disagreement that a person with ...

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

Notions of good and evil are essentially dependent on social and cultural constructs, making conflicts over morality open to debate. ... 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 to be played out. ...

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

He tells the parable of Lazarus in order to illustrate his point, a story that represents Cesira's life. ... Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns one back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist and summon man to spiritual battle. ...

• Word Count: 2867
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (Jackson 625). ... When the evils of the lottery are in reach to her family, Tess is adamant in renouncing the evils of it and how unjust it is to her. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Svidrigailov commits suicide when he realizes that he cannot deceive Raskolnikov and Dounia that he has reform from his previous, evil-doings. ... It is represented that suffering leads to salvation, and that suffering is necessary for a man to be changed and renewed from himself. ...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Critical attention to how crime is reported in the news is necessary given the way in which the media represent these events heavily influences our understanding of crime in society. "Media images help shape our view of the world and our deepest values; what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil" (Butler Alison, 2015). ... Surely it would seem at face value that crime news almost always over-represents violent and sexual crimes, while under-representing other forms of criminality. ...

• Word Count: 2855
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each role carries with it a set of norms of how it is to be played; norms are a subset of the general values, which represent the application of societal values to the "shoulds" and "oughts" of role conduct. ... Americans fought, as mostly known, to rid their young nation of the evil practice of slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate