“All that we are is the result of what we have thought… If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him… If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.” -Buddha Evil, when we hear this word we think of the devil, death, or horrid things. But the three authors of these books don’t bring evil out in such …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…Romantic and Victorian views may differ from author to author, but their points are still clear and the same. The irrational evil of where there is one, there is the other, in the authors world evil brings mankind together also at the same time it separates. In the same way as irrational evil the authors take the common motif of evil, which brings all these works together and yet separates them at the same time.