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? to make analysis of the novel Great Expectations and find out how the themes of good and evil are represented in it.
The methods used are the analysis of critical sources about good and evil manifestations in social life and literature, the analysis of the authors works, viewpoints, social positions and contributions into literature.value of this term paper is that it investigates the influence of the themes of good and evil on English literature in the beginning of the XIX century and their impact on Charles Dickens s ideology and works.
1. The battle of good and evil in literature of the xix century
.1 Universal themes of good versus evil in English literature
the dawn of time, the forces of evil have always tried to gain an upper hand over the forces of good. The battles between these two forces have transcended time in both different forms and in different places. Every culture since the birth of man has background stories of creation and the battles that are waged between the two forces of light and dark.in the aftermath, stories and legends are passed down from generation to generation through the vast cultures and civilizations. Beginning with the use of oral traditions that took these stories and the use of spoken word to both inform and entertain the people of a given society. These tales also had another purpose, which was to remind people of the evils that were around them. Such stories fed on the fears of the people and the uncertainty of the world around them.the stories themselves may differ considerably from region to region, the basic underlying theme has always been identical. With the coming into being of written word, these stories could now be put down for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. We have been lucky in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the themes of fight between good and evil.
Readers may determine a theme as an idea, point of view, or perception, embodied and expanded upon in a work. When the writers convey messages of good and evil, they may choose to use symbols of light and dark, innocence and malice, or general opposites. Webster's dictionary defines «good» as virtue, validity, and the possession of desirable or positive qualities; while on those who represent «evil» remain morally wrong or bad, harmful, malicious, and absent of good.the time literature appears in the development of a culture, the society comes to share a whole system of stereotypes and archetypes. Often these works reflect the societies in which the authors live or experience. Myths, legends, and folk tales lie at the beginning of literature, while their plots, situations, and allegorical judgments of life repraesent a consistent source of literary inspiration.
First of all, we would like to describe the classical example of the struggle between good and evil - the epic poem Beowulf. The Old English epic Beowulf may have been written during the first half of the eighth century, or it may have been composed at about the year 1000, which is th...
