Post by Bryan Lu on Dec 2, 2008 16:55:13 GMT -8
For the "Berenice" DCQ...
Egæus begins his narration with “Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues as various as the hues of that arch-- as distinct, too, yet as intimately blended... But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.”
Write a D/C/Q essay responding to this quote. Do you agree that everything has evil, and that, as Egæus puts it, evil is a result of good? Or do you believe that evil is simply the absence of good, and that not all things have evil?
Egæus begins his narration with “Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues as various as the hues of that arch-- as distinct, too, yet as intimately blended... But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.”
Write a D/C/Q essay responding to this quote. Do you agree that everything has evil, and that, as Egæus puts it, evil is a result of good? Or do you believe that evil is simply the absence of good, and that not all things have evil?