Good And Evil In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes

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“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process it corrupts itself” -- John Connelly. In the novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, the author, Ray Bradbury, portrays good and evil battling against each other. The people of Green Town, Illinois, has met their match when an unexpected carnival comes into their lives and brings Halloween a week early. October has never been this rare and now Jim, Will, and Charles will have to conquer what is now in front of them. Evil hides in many forms, causing people to fall into the traps they portray, and good is the mighty sword that wins the battle.

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It arrived at 3 a.m, the calliope playing softly, but loud enough for Will and Jim to hear. “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes” (Bradbury 187). Mr. Dark the illustrated man and Mr. Cooger the carousel rider, and the rest of the carnival are now in town to destroy lives. Mr. Dark hides his evil behind his tattoos. “The freaks leaped in a frolic of shock, then calmed as the carnival owner continued with great ease, patting and soothing his own illustrations, which somehow patted and soothed the freaks” (Bradbury 110). For everyone that succumbs to the carnival’s trinks a new one is added. On the outside he wears a mask of a charming man which appeases to everyone but behind it he a sinister man. However, Mr.Cooger pretends to be Miss Foley’s nephew by riding the carousel to make him younger. “And through the little nostrils cut in the shiny wax mask, Mr.Cooger’s breath went in steam and came out ice” (Bradbury 86). The familiar appearances of the old Mr.Cooger could not pass by Will and Jim. Specifically they remembered the blue eyes of the older man and tried to tell Miss Foley but she was too blind to
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