Examine responses of the main character(s) to evil and/or evil impulses: O'Connor's "A Good man is Hard to find", and "The Cask of Amontillado". What accounts for the responses to evil in each story?
Title: Examine responses of the main character(s) to evil and/or evil impulses: O'Connor's "A Good man is Hard to find", and "The Cask of Amontillado". What accounts for the responses to evil in each story?
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Examine responses of the main character(s) to evil and/or evil impulses: O'Connor's "A Good man is Hard to find", and "The Cask of Amontillado". What accounts for the responses to evil in each story?
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 1253 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
EVIL
The Grandmother in Flannery O'Connor's "A Goodman is Hard to Find", fears death. She hopes to convince the Misfit to spare her by begging and telling him that he is a good man and should find Jesus. While the Misfit, who is a convicted murderer, seems to regret murdering the grandmother. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", Fortunato the fool also fears his impending death at the hand of the evil Montresor …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…he had to kill her but she would have been a better person if confronted with death every moment of her life.
Works Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Cask of Amontillado." ENE 101: Literature and Composition I
Course Reader. Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, Division of
Continuing Studies, 2001. 206-210.
O'Connor, Flannery. "A Goodman is Hard to Find." ENE 101: Literature and
Composition I Course Reader. Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, Division of Continuing Studies, 2001. 194-205.