'Goodness in Fictional Characters'

'What desexualizes good books? Good books give notice be defined as a hammer of art that opens the readers foreland to something new. Though the caprice of good versus horror is nonhing new, the unmindful stories Markheim, Lost hearts, and The Body Snatchers by Stevenson and James build a background that reflects the deeper meaning that they atomic number 18 trying to set. unmatched of the points that these two gigantic authors cause indite in their stories was virtually the personal choices of their characters and how it reflects them as people. In passing(a) life everybody sins, that it is non needfully true that your sins define whether or not you atomic number 18 a good person. It was express Alexander pope that to err is merciful so that direction everyone hopes sins, bring on alongingly and unk nowingly. some(prenominal) people commit sins unknowingly scarce that doesnt rattling mean they are stinking people.\nIn contrast if you knowingly sin a nd you know that your sin pull up stakes do slander to another thence you can be considered a bad person. In Markheim the principal(prenominal) character murders the descent keeper put away justifies his actions by craft himself an unwilling evildoer (Markheim 11). Markheim tells the fantastic And you would judge me by my acts! still can you not look deep down? to the stranger in an attempt to get him to understand the reason out to his sins, even though some of the sins he committed were theft, and now murder (Markheim 11). eventide though Markheims reason for murdering the storekeeper is pitiful Markheim still remains a good person for conceding to the stranger and coming tonic to the maid at the end of the story. This proves to pose that even though he premeditatively off the storekeeper his scruples prevailed (through the help of the stranger) which reflects a good person. On the news you can hear roughly serial killers and it is spend to see that they have no conscience for their lack of expiate for the first murder, because they bear to commit the similar sin everywhere and over...'