My intention today was to try and put down the myriad of thoughts that have been swirling through my head since I finished East of Eden this morning - mostly about the theme of good and evil. However, life often gets in the way and I have had a request from a publishing friend to write an emergency article to fill a spot in the inaugral edition of her magazine ... so a homebirth article writing I go ... Steinbeck can wait another day.
Until then - who is your favourite characters of good and evil? And is the dichotomy too simplistic?
Until then - who is your favourite characters of good and evil? And is the dichotomy too simplistic?
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This subject scares me a bit (a lot). The Holocaust, genocide around the world (and lots more) and so on have forced me to think about how people can be transformed from hate to love / compassion.
I would have to say that Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) is probably my favourite book where the main character is transformed from hate to love in a remarkable way / to a remarkable degree (such a difficult subject to handle without sounding sentimental). Doetoevsky pulls it off brillianlty. Brilliant book.
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