The word evil can have several different meanings, such as morally bad or wrong, causing others to reevaluate their beliefs and assume a completely new personality, or abuse an immense amount of power. We can only vaguely grasp the term evil given its definition. One needs one's own experiences to fully understand evil. Evil is when we deliberately exclude a mass of people because of a common attribute. He starts doing something immoral while recognizing the potential risks. Through the voice of Elaine Aron, Zimbardo asserts that such qualities are embodied among ordinary people under various pressures to create a bad situation. These traits appear repeatedly among characters in American literature and history in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and events related to McCarthyism. Authority gives everyone the apparent right to demand obedience and expect the standard of “their people.” They are expected to exercise beneficial judgment and lead society forward and on the right path, but given power, the minds of leaders are tainted. People in positions of authority are often given “roles that seem responsible, such as “guardian,” “teacher,” [or] “defenders of the law” (Aron 4). This results in manipulation of people's minds, who tend to trust those with a name of great importance and respect. The society depicted in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is often faced with the difficult task of distinguishing between the immoral and the moral, to the point where it has lost the ability to recognize the non-existence of the moral. People "had done it so many times" (Jackson 296), but they don't question their traditions and just stick to middle of paper...he moves on and on, so that she uses this new found strength for the betterment of society. She transforms herself into a benefactor of society, being “so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted” (Hawthorne 111). Hester proves that she could overcome her society's exclusion of her actions and turns the A for adultery into A for angel. Being evil is not admirable, but without it there is no definition of morality. Good without evil is like black without white, darkness without light, yin without yang – one does not exist without the other, but the two exist in harmony. Good can exist in evil and evil can exist in good. There is no clear line between moral and immoral, and as a result, they tend to intersect in each other's territory, as Zimbardo's article describes. As long as humanity exists, good and evil will always coexist.