Good vs Evil

[Hard Rock Mom]

I've noticed that the reoccurring theme of "good versus evil" exists in almost all of Mr. King's works and that good always triumphs. I wonder if he will ever go completely over to the dark side and let evil win in one of his works? Maybe that place is just too dark to venture into especially with the state of the world today.

[Moderator]

It's not a book per se, but Storm of the Century might be one that meets that criteria.

[Ubasti]

I watched Storm of the Century as well as bought the screenplay (thinking it was the book the tv movie was based on) and I do remember it being a dark story that as Mrs. Mod said, would meet the criteria of evil being more of the "winner".

[Sweet One]

WHat about Cujo?

I made a post a long time ago, under another username, before site was revamped, about this. It is proabaly speculation only because King proabably intended the dark events in Cujo to be random, meaningless, and incomrpehensible. the only known connection between the DT novels and Cujo is that the name Cujo means "Sweet One" in High Speech.

But the post was speculatiing on the possibilty that it was NOT random, but Cujo's rabidness, Donna's car breakibg down at Camber's, her affair with Steve Kemp, the Sharp Cereal crash, etc, were all orcatrasted by some evil force connected to the Dark Tower. The monster in Tad Trenton's closet was an evil minion of the Crimson King. The same minion had possessed Frank Dodd, and used Cujo to ensure that Tad croaked. It has been written that Tad was "marked" in the opening passages of the book. Maybe he possessed some kind of latent psychic gift that would prove fatal to the Crimson King--much like Patrick Danville in Insomnia. But unlike Patrick, Tad died because this time the CK won. He succeeded in rubbing out someone who could prove a mortal threat.

It's proabably just me trying to read some meaning into this bleak, bleak novel. But if The Crimson King overlooked that other reality out there, where Tad lived and Bannerman became mayor....

[Draga]

That book gave me the shivers.

[brownmouse]

Well - nobody can say The Mist movie was a happy ending. Frankly I like happy endings But ya never know

[rjt65]

Duno if I agree good always triumphs, i think alot of the red over the white wins... but both sides take severe hits.

Apt pupil- good didn't win, RAGE- good nada, and it is never a clear cut win --lots of good major characters fall, lot of pain and a lot of loss.

the Stand ending did good totally triumph?

Carrie? , ---I could go on... Look at every book and short story---lot of destruction..from the evil side...

[DanishReader]

Cujo and The Dark Tower was not connected. Cujo was just about how life can be cruel, with no purpose at all. Cujo got rabies, period. The Frank Dodd spectre in the closet was not a minion of the Crimson King. Not all of King's works has anything to do with DT.

[Draga]

I would define King's stories like the Yin Yang dichotomy, where good is not completely good and evil not completely bad. Good is supposed to to win, but as everything in universe is cyclical, and you can't eliminate good or evil because they have always existed and they will ever be there, is that why here you've never ending stories where good and evil will continue to fight for the eternity. They can win or loose the battle, but none of them will win the war. That's the idea of the ka thing too, doesn't it?

[poisonbat]

I would have to agree with Storm of the Century, but Needful Things was also pretty close. He did get away ya know.