Toni Morrison's novel "Sula" bases itself on ambiguity, questioning the definitions of "good" and "evil", and how closely the two resemble one another. The novel attempts to scrutinize the complexity of human emotions and relationships, exploring ways to make meaning of lives filled with such idiosyncratic conflicts of race and gender. In the context of Sula, "good" and "evil" are shown to be concepts too simplistic to apply to life - nothing is wholly one …
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…in this act best express the complexities and "balancing" nature of love. Love seems to be expressed as a constant struggle between order and chaos. There is no guidebook that one can follow in order to "perform" or "accept" love properly. Rather, it is a natural pulling of forces that just seems to exist. Again, the balancing of forces is what creates true harmony in Bottom, not the extreme emphasis upon strict order in society.