Good Vs Evil Analysis Essay Example

evil. Both Ralph Wald Emerson and Henry David Thoreau share a deep understanding of he human nature, that we are free to do and chose whatever we want and feel like is the right decision.

For example, in his essay "Self-Reliance", by Ralph Wald Emerson depicts humans as individuals who should stick to what they believe and not change their beliefs for society.

We see this when he writes "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people This quote is very direct, It makes us think about how much we care sometimes about others opinion, that we don't follow our own beliefs, we are free to think and follow what we want. Similarly, Henry David portrays humans as Individual who are free to go against the law If necessary, because what govern us is not always right. For instance we can see how he feels in this quote from his essay "Civil Disobedience", "The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies"(Thoreau 372).

This quote expresses that the ones who worked for the state work as if they were machines, not as open minded people who works for their own beliefs, instead they have to follow what others say. These similar views of human nature reflect Transcendentalist belief that the "inner light" within us that lead to an emphasis on the authority of the self.

In contrast, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Faulkner portray human nature as essentially evil and disturbed. For example In his short story, "Dry.

Heidegger Experiment", Nathaniel Hawthorne depict humans as Individuals who never really learn form their

mistakes and keep on falling In that aspect, In his short story he shows four old people who would love to go back and be young, "Age, with Its ascribable train of cares and sorrows and diseases, was remembered only as the how they felt about their age and being young, when they were given the water form the fountain of youth they had their moment of Joy when they looked at themselves but, didn't learned form their past mistakes and did them all over again.

Like wise William Faulkner portrays humans as individuals who are disturbed. We see this in this quote from "A rose for Emily': "so the next day we all said 'she will kill herself; and we said it would be the best thing"(Faulkner 522).

This quote reflects how people edge what they see without really knowing how it is. They thought in the story that Emily, the main character, was going to kill herself without knowing why she had bought all the venom for rats.

This shows how some of these conclusions humans make without knowing the truth really brings up the bad side of some of us. These similar views of human nature reflect Gothic beliefs that humans are essentially evil. We can see the difference between Emerson and Faulkner in which they both viewed human nature differently.

We can see that in the essay "Civil Disobedience" ho they IEEE humans as something that only does good, while for the Gothic they make them evil, for example "In a rose for Emily', she killed someone, she was not social, very lonely and scary.

So its not only the difference

of ideas but also setting, which gives us the idea of more loneliness and how disturbed she is. In conclusion, throughout this essays and short stories we can see how each author portrays human nature. Some believe we are born evil, and other believe we are born free and good. Throughout their stories they give some examples of how life is.