How the Symbolic Representations of Evil Shape Literature | Analytical Essay

The Symbolic Representations of Evil in Literature

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Evil can be described as immoral or that which is harmful, unpleasant characterized by suffering and disastrous. It can also be viewed as the acts and activities that people judge as ‘bad’ and can be personalized or linked to the devil. [1]Evil involves unbalanced behavior involving anger, revenge, fear, hatred, psychological trauma, selfishness, ignorance, or neglect According to Cooper evil is noted as the power of darkness and its symbolic identified by the devouring beasts such as the serpent or dragons, the one-eyed Cyclops, some horned beasts and natural phenomena such as hurricane.[2]

Cooper elaborates this definition in the context of the battle between the good and the evil which happens spiritually in man’s own nature.[3] The war happens as a consequence of anger, revenge, selfishness, and ignorance, the war…