Good And Evil In John Steinbeck's East Of Eden

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The novel, “East of Eden,” is arguably one of Steinbeck’s greatest accomplishments. Although it may be a story that has been reenacted throughout all of human history it still pervades the novel in an unexpected manner. The novel encapsulates and examines human nature in a most articulate and impressive manner. It displays the persons’ most fundamental and private battle. One which every person at each moment and every day are asked to fight: the war of good vs. evil.
The novel does more than simply wrestle with the effects of good and evil and the decisions that each person is faced with. It honors and pays tribute to the beauty of the human person. The dynamicity and the vigor that is present, the continual, internal struggle and the wonderment