Potrayal of Evil

Portrayal of Evil In the allegory The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser, evil is depicted primarily as character. In Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe and Everyman written by an anonymous author, evil is depicted as an action. In The Faerie Queen, Spenser creates an allegory: The characters of his far-off, fanciful “Faerie Land” are meant to have a symbolic meaning in the real world. The main theme of Book I is the idea that our …

…good, we go to Heaven. Because Good Deeds goes with him to salvation, what we do for others down here own earth is what is important. These three allegories look at the evil of their times but most importantly they try to show the people of that century that what they are doing is wrong. Each story has their own consequences of what will happen to the people who act evil and do evil acts.