Goood Vs. Bad

The world is full of forces of good and evil all of which strive for power. “The world of goodness is destined to be defeated” is a quote written by Walker Percy. This could be interpreted as saying bad shall eventually conquer good in the end. Two books that fit with this statement are Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Pearl by John Steinbeck because bad seems to defeat good.
The Pearl is a good book to compare with the quote because the book does not have a happy ending like most books. One example is when keno tries to sell it but the merchants won’t take it for the price Keno wants. It seems that bad has triumphed over the good will. Kenos character shows that he is stubborn for not accepting the payment but a caring man for trying to uses the money to send koioteto to school. Also in the book the priest tries to get the pearl as payment for saving koioteto from the scorpion sting. The priest knows that the pearl is worth more than that but also out of greed he tries to obtain it. So it seams in The Pearl greed has triumphed over the goodness in people.
In Animal Farm the character Napoleon takes advantage of the other animals of the farm and manipulates them to do his bidding. In one instance he sends Boxer, his most loyal and helpful follower, to be killed.
You would think that cense Boxer was his most loyal follower that Napoleon would have kept him alive. This shows Napoleons character to be ungrateful and heartless. Also at the end when other animals look in during the card game and see the men and pigs fighting, the animals can’t tell them apart. The very thing the animals set out to destroy the pigs have become. It seems that in these instances that the bad has triumphed over the good. The books Animal Farm and The Pearl have both have ending that have a not so happy ending. The good in the novels have been beaten down and cast aside by the bad and greed of man. These novels are a prime example of how good does not always win in the fight against bad.