evil and good

As children, we hear many stories about the confrontations between good and evil.

“There are relatively few ways to do good, but countless ways to do evil, which can hence have a greater impact on our lives, and the lives of others beings capable of suffering,” written by Plato. His words could be used the same way on how we characterize the differences between good and evil, affecting how we view them. Fairy tales and other media have their own ways of telling a story, but illustrating evil and good characters are roughly the same concept, for evil has a wide range of ideas and good has a general pile of characteristics.

Firstly, not all evil is illustrated as plain as day. There are evils called natural evils; this is suffering caused by action that has no connection to humans and that only happen by how the way the world works. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, birth defects, cancer, illness are examples of natural evil. In Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the Quasimodo is a victim to birth defects. Born with a large wart that covers his right eye, and a hunchback. Birth defects are a evil of their own, but Quasimodo’s situation was worse. He was abandoned by his own mother and whenever he went out in public he was ridicule for his deformity, even though he has a fairly kind heart.

There are a few natural good like water cycle for harvest, pollination, photosynthesis, and birth. Without photosynthesis there wouldn’t be a population or plants. If there were no pollination going on, there would be no greenery to create new plants or to create more food. The lack of the water cycle would be the end of the harvest, the population, and anything. (do I keep?)

The Legend of Zelda; is a high fantasy action-adv...

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...about strangers in the forrest, instead of having a man the writers change it with a wolf. The beast is replacing a older man, children would not take the story as seriously if it was a person. Children learn that wolves are bad creatures that eat innocent things, they have a bigger fear of them instead of people who do not show similarities to wolves.

The purposes of these creatures of different appearances compared to good characters is to learn that people hide their true nature. A normal person will have many faces, hidden by kind faces, but when they are describe as a terrible creature the trust is broken. The evil behavior can change a person on the inside and fables warn children about these kinds of people. For children won’t know what a pedophile or a kidnapper will look like, but will warn them that they shouldn’t trust any person that they don’t know.