GOOD VS EVIL

LITERATURE THAT REPRESENT GOOD AND EVIL

• 1984: Winston and Julia represent good, the party or Big Brother represent evil.
• Macbeth: Banqo represents good, the Witches and Macbeth represent evil.
• LOTF: Simon,Ralph and piggy represent good, Jake and the beast represent evil.

THEMES

• Lord of the flies: civilization, rules and order, innocents, fear and power
• 1984: power, violence and rebellion, manipulation
• Macbeth: fate and free will, power, violence, supernatural, Gender roles

Related themes

All of these books have similar themes that are relating to power and fear

IN 1984

• Winston and Julia's fear of being caught by the thought police and being tortured
• Big brother and the party using their power to control people

IN LORD OF THE FLIES

• All the boys fear the beastie
• Both jack and ralph struggle to keep control and power

IN MACBETH

• Macbeth fearing being killed by Banquo or his son fleance
• Macbeth gaining power by killing King Duncan

QUOTE FROM LORD OF THE FLIES

• At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

QUOTE FROM MACBETH

• "Will it not be received, when we have marked with blood those, sleepy two of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, that they have done't
• When Macbeth killed king Duncan

QUOTE FROM 1984

• for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.

DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD OR EVIL

• I believe that people are inherently evil, some more than others, and the only things holding us together is morals and society.

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• 1984
• lord of the flies
• events in these books could possible happen in real life scenarios

are people good or evil

• overall my view on this topic hasn't changed. I still believe people are evil and need to be taught good, through parents and society.

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGpPw5MKhtc