Essays on Evil Actions

Shakespeare’s tragedies are based on the culmination of the recklessness of his protagonists. For example, suspicion was the major cause of Othello’s downfall; Pride was the cause behind King Lear’s tragedy. As said by Aristotle, the protagonist’s weakness is the major reason for the tragedy to happen in the play. Shakespeare’s plays are based on the concept of Aristotle’s tragedy. The tragic hero according to Corrigan (206) is the good man who faces trouble due to his errors or shortcomings. The shortcomings or errors are the real motivators behind the action of the ...

Introduction

The novel Kindred has written by Octavia Butler in 1979. This is a science fiction novel which contains high literature. The novel has different themes, one of them is ‘obsessive love.' In the novel, obsessive love can be found commonly in various characters. All the characters’ obsessive love is depicted from their acts. The author shows in the novel a direct comparison of Rufus slave owning behavior with his mother who plays an eminent role to spoil him. The ending of the novel is the true depiction that an individual who is on the right path never gets pain ...

Augustine and Pelagius on Nature and Grace

In the 5th century, in the Church of Rome, the theological debate arises about the balance of forces of human nature and the grace of God in the salvation of man. Long before the separation of the Churches, the theological debate has significant influences on the development of Western Christianity both in the Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Particularly, the debate focused with the two important and outstanding names of the history, the Father of the Western Church, Saint Augustine of Hippo with his counterpart monk Pelagius, both are involved of this argument. Correspondingly, the Pelagian controversy has changed ...