critical lens
Great literature show us the
woest in a human being while also revealing the best
many people agree, that all characters have the tendency
to do good and the tendency to do good andthe tendency to
do evil,to works of literature that show this are Their
Eyes Were Watching and Macbeth.
In the play Macbeth by William Shakespare,
macbeth is a brave soldier who fought for king Duncan,He
was loyal and trustworty,this reveals his good side,on
the other hand, after he received the title Thane of cowdor
he then ploted to murder Duncan and take his thron, he planed
to kill him while he was sleeping and blame his murder on the
guards,he also kill his friends and other innocent people,this
is macbeths evil side.
The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Zora Neale Hurston is another work of literature that revealed
the good in a person and the bad, Joe Starks is a good man in
a good way because he works hard forhis money he was trying to
improve the town he and his wife lived in,this is his good side,
on the other hand, he was abusive to janie,his wife, and tries
to control every thing in her life, this exposes the evil in him.
From the above you can see from the examples of
macbeth and Joe starks why great literature shows us the worst
in a human being while also revealing the best.