The central themes of good and evil are presumably clear through its two main characters of Daniel Burnham and Henry H. Holmes. The book reveals a clear cut conflict between good and evil through these two characters through their intentions during the time of the fair. Burnham being the good intellect with high hopes for the fair to be a safe and fun for people while Holmes sought out to use the fair to his own personal advantage to make money through scams and commit dozens of murders along the way. Although the two are very different in a good vs evil since, they are in fact alike in the case that they are both strong and cunning intellects. The character of Daniel Burnham in this book is depicted as the good. Burnham is a strong architect who only had high hopes for this fair. The fact that…show more content… Burnham was a highly valued architect. He built the fair and wanted to make a skyscraper for it as well. Burnham’s mind was always at work and his intellectual ideas and doings for the fair only goes to show that he was a brilliant mind. Holmes is also a genius. He is able to intricately plan all of his crimes. He also was a college graduate and built a grand hotel. They were both amazingly stunning smart men in their time which made them alike intellectually.
The clash between the good and the evil in the fair clashed because for every good intention there is an evil one and for evil intention there in a good one. Burnham and Holmes were both intricate thinkers the difference between was not how smart one or the other was, the difference between the two men were simply how they chose to use their knowledge, Burnham used his to make people happy while Holmes used his mind for self prosperity. In the time of the fair, for every good intention Burnham would have, Holmes would have equally as bad of one making good and evil linger and co-exist within each
