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Its a very common theme, the good versus Evil debacle. its something that sets up just about everything.

Its the notion of it, the two greatest values to mankind, Evil being the “darker” side of the human mind, seen as to be evil is to be erratic on a subject, or to hold malice about what is being done by you.

e.g if you were to just suddenly hit someone its a kind of Evil because its something that is not properly accepted and its a malicious intent.

Good can be viewed as anything following the set guidelines of rules or society. If you follow rules set by an elder person you’re good, if you’re an embodiment of good spirits you’re good, more on this later.

 Many aversions of the whole paradigm on the subject such as films and books take the whole concept to the extreme.

Within many fantasy novels and books there has been a growing increases of the word ‘Dark” and “Black” becoming synonymous with the word Evil.

There’s a Dark wizard living in the black castle who has an evil heart and destroys souls of all the local villagers.

Go grab a fantasy book you or a family owns.

Any book which has these two underlying themes within them. If you sat down and underlined each word which expresses and basically screams across at you that something is evil or brooding, it would be very surprising to find out how much there are.

Why must books be like this?

Must the Evil always lose the war, fight, battle etc?

The main point of Good always winning is the message it alwasy tries to give across to the audience. The author doesn’t want to give out the message being evil is swell, be evil and you’ll succeed, no; the point is to put across the difference between the two and which path you should be taking.

Of course there’s those books which can border on the ties between the two but these are scarce, so scare I am yet to find a source to cite it.

Is the border between the two even that fine?

You wouldn’t… couldn’t tell with the way modern writers do it.

There’s always the black castle, or something to do with black. The evil necromancer will always being wearing a black trench coat (flowing, of course) which is setertyping to a point.

Good uses light to draw in power, Evil the moon to draw in power…. can you see the theme that they both go off?

Of course you can understand the whole underlying point of what I’m trying to give across and what I’m leading up to, its the sheer point and studying of the two values and why good always prevails, is there a point to be made with it?

Continued in part 2…