Thesis: The themes of good and evil are constantly opposed by the supposed right and wrong.
Reason: Though they appear to be the same they are not.
Example: Pinkie believe in heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, while the woman trying to expose his murderous ways, Ida Arnold believes in right and wrong.
Example: Good and Evil applies more to the spiritual side of mortality, while right and wrong applies to physical side of mortality
Reason: Good and evil applies more towards god and christianity, while right and wrong is more set on pleasing the law
Example: Pinkie and his wife feel they will be damned for not getting married in a church
Example: Ida Arnold believes that Pinkie must be brought to justice for murdering a man and doesn't care a whit whether he's married or not
Reason: What is good is not necessarily what is right and what is evil is not necessarily wrong
Example: Society today doesn't see there being a problem with getting married outside church, making it "right", but the main characters believe it to be an offense in the sight of the Holy Ghost making it evil.
Example: Ida Arnold does not perceive Pinkie's marriage to be right, but with the way Pinkie's wife feels he treats her, she doesn't see their being together as evil.
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1. Try to mention the title of the novel in your thesis.
2. I like what you are trying to get at in the thesis but I'm not sure you succeed. There is definitely a tension between secular morality and spirituality in this novel, I'm just not sure good/evil vs right/wrong are the words to use to describe it. In your introduction you will have to define your concepts very carefully. If you don't it will be easy to get confused in subsequent reasoning.
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