Crime and Punishment Baccaria & Dostoevsky 
.... We see this early on in the novel because the good aspects of Raskolnikov's character are repulsed by his recognition of his
evil desire to murder Alyona ....
(2147
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Aquinas on Evil
.... is never anything positive in itself, Aquinas argues that
evil as such can not be desired, saying, There is no problem from the fact that some men
desire evil. ....
(4058
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Hasidic Tales and Eastern European Jews
.... Characteristic is his parable depicting the workings of the
Evil Desire: a man, having been refused permission to dwell in a house, is granted permission to ....
(2958
12
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"Gimpel the Fool"
.... nature and his openness to the transforming power of love and
desire, that doubt .... the devil sees him as finally vulnerable and tempts him to do
evil in return ....
(1781
7
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
.... Every major philosophy, religion and school of psychology places the will (or the unconscious or the subconscious or
desire or the ego or
evil) in a central ....
(3250
13
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Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
.... This acknowledgement drives Chillingworth to become the very personification of
evil. .... and getting on with his life, Chillingworth allows his
desire for revenge ....
(2104
8
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Clytemnestra in Sophocles' Electra
.... woman who becomes
evil through lust. Here is a woman who, Sophocles makes clear, has done what she has done in large part because of sexual
desire for Aegisthus ....
(2223
9
)
Frederick Douglass' Use of Literacy
.... that hearing the man state aloud the reasons why slaves should not be educated ignited in Douglass the ardent
desire to become educated. The entire
evil lie of ....
(1620
6
)
Plato's Moral Theory
.... learned to curb the tendency to rule one's actions through
desire or emotion .... in the skies whose abstract existence does little to discourage
evil behavior or ....
(1687
7
)
Philosophies of Plato & Nietzsche
.... He does not accept an absolute or inherent good or
evil quality of essence in .... True philosophers
desire complete wisdom and are not satisfied with anything less ....
(1408
6
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Hindu Culture & Belief System
.... In Hinduism the individual usually prays not out of personal repentance but out of the
desire to be relieved of the effects of
evil. ....
(3124
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Analysis of Buddhism and Buddha
.... Every pleasure was only poisoned for Buddha by its temporal character. The basic
evil then represents tanha--not all
desire--but selfish
desire. ....
(1833
7
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Flannery O'Connor's Grotesques
.... Johnson's obsession with
evil is exactly the kind of foolish, irrational religious expression that Sheppard despises. Norton's
desire for the comfort of ....
(880
4
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Flannery O'Connor and "Grotesques"
.... Johnson's obsession with
evil is exactly the kind of foolish, irrational religious expression that Sheppard despises. Norton's
desire for the comfort of ....
(886
4
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Bram Stoker Dracula
.... her sexual passion in Victorian society was associated with something
evil, dark, and .... Characters in the story are torn between
desire and restraint; those who ....
(1396
6
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Hobbes on Obligation Thomas Hobbes held offere
.... seen, there is nothing to accuse either of their good or
evil fortune but .... eternal, infinite, and omnipotent may more easily be derived from the
desire men have ....
(1082
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Hobbes on Obligation Thomas Hobbes held offere
.... seen, there is nothing to accuse either of their good or
evil fortune but .... eternal, infinite, and omnipotent may more easily be derived from the
desire men have ....
(1085
4
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Machiavelli, Hobbes & Locke
.... In a world that is corrupt and consists of many who are
evil, the true .... of democracy, Machiavelli is completely unconcerned with what the common people
desire. ....
(2550
10
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Animated Film Aladdin
.... Rhetorical Claim: Aladdin plays to the
desire on the part of the audience to see good triumph over
evil and to see the hero and heroine united in a happy ending ....
(1524
6
)
Myths and the Hebrew Bible
.... Everyone is born out of the
evil of sexual
desire. Original sin is primarily spiritual, sin of the soul, in Adam as in everyone else. ....
(2398
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Free Will & Predestination
.... Yet choosing to sin carries with it an
evil result, but if we choose not to sin .... see, then they are not truly free to use their will in the manner they
desire. ....
(2527
10
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Critiques of 8 Short stories The subject of The Zebra
.... is two-pronged--on the one hand, he feels the stirrings of
desire and sees .... Hawthorne creates an image of innocence compromised in the face of the
evil of the ....
(2899
12
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Nietzsche, Locke and Kant Friedrich Nietzsche, John Locke, and ...
.... and is thus stripped of his power or goodness, that authority is
evil since it .... It seems as if in man's
desire for hegemony over nature, and his insecurity ....
(2091
8
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Adolf Hitler
.... the same manner that Jackson has ostensibly sublimated his adult sexual
desire (spending what .... III presents Hitler as a man who succumbed to the
evil inside him ....
(1402
6
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Human Behavior in Measure for Measure
.... Having waste ground enough, Shall we
desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our .... of Shakespeare reminded people that each person was tainted with
evil; such was ....
(2121
8
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Theme of Colonialism in Literature
.... The result was too often a contagion of
evil and corruption, such as Kurtz represents .... horror" he saw at the very end of his life was that such a
desire to help ....
(1415
6
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Buddhism & Christianity
.... of the biggest are the concept of Nirvana (getting rid of all attachment/
desire) and the .... Moreover, the Buddhist approach to
evil is quite different from ours. ....
(3336
13
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Dracula & Wuthering Heights
.... The hero who opposes him reconciles the opposing forces of good and
evil, light and .... he is raised in an upper class atmosphere, and in his
desire for revenge is ....
(1680
7
)
The Characters of Heathcliff & Dracula
.... The hero who opposes him reconciles the opposing forces of good and
evil, light and .... he is raised in an upper class atmosphere, and in his
desire for revenge is ....
(1680
7
)
Analysis of Voila's Speech in Twelfth Night
.... Viola sees that there is a germ of
evil in disguise, and that she has inadvertently participated in that
evil through her
desire to help both the Duke and ....
(1425
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