Good vs. Evil: Picking up from a cliffhanger… When last we met, oh no! Good vs. Evil mythology had crept into the very moral makeup of our society! It suggests we can reduce complex issues into simple heroes and villains. And we started to look at how these stories surround us even from childhood, with… Continue reading Psychology and Literature: Stories of Good and Evil (II)
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Psychology and Literature: Stories of Good vs. Evil
Good versus evil: Our cultural myth One of the prominent themes in our cultural mythos is good versus evil. This theme reverberates in stories from antiquity through the present: God versus Satan or the Devil; Beowulf versus Grendel; the American colonies versus the evil monarchy of King George III; rich versus poor; established, dominant versus… Continue reading Psychology and Literature: Stories of Good vs. Evil