Literary Analysis The Pit And The Pendulum - 1100 Words

India Sherman Tanig English II Pre-Ap 7 November 2014 Literary Analysis Essay What is evil? Reading â€Å"The Pit and the Pendulum† by: Edgar Allan Poe, â€Å"Marriage Is a Private Affair† by: Chinua Achebe, and â€Å"Harrison Bergeron† by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. shall give a better understanding of defining evil. Evil means to be profoundly immoral and malevolent in all these stories this is something all the antagonist share. They all have their own version of evil, either traditional and strict evil , or insidious and sadistic evil either way there evil is still morally wrong. Okeke is not as evil as the three Judges and Handicapper General. This is because he is not as cruel as the rest. Okeke’s punishments were not the worst possible. Nnaemeka explained to his father, Okeke, that he did not want to marry the women that was chosen for him instead he wanted to marry Nene. â€Å" His father gave him up as lost.† ( Achebe p. 989) Nnaemeka disrespected his father by refusing to marry a woman from his tribe. Instead he wanted to m arry another woman outside of the tribe. This shows that his dad has lost respect for his son, and does not want anything to do with him.When Nnaemeka lost his fathers respect he was still able to live his life with his wife, he even had children. Okeke could have had Nnaemeka killed or even the woman he wanted to marry, so that things could go his way. Instead Okeke and Nnaemeka became adversaries. 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