Composers throughout the ages have often used dichotomy as a tool to depict the rift between "good" and "bad" women, but their exact intentions are often unclear. Examples of this ambiguity may be found in "Vanity Fair", a BBC television mini-series set in nineteenth century England, Fay Weldon's eighties novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and Chocolat, a single mother's integration into a rural French community, by Joanne Harris. No true saints or …
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…made use of a dichotomy between good and evil, they also take care to create a grey area which conceals their own feelings about characters, and invites their responders to form their own ideas. Social and historical environments, motivation and the place of institutions all reflect the multifaceted characteristic of humanity. All three texts demonstrate the complexity of humans - the impossibility of placing people into categories, especially such rigid definitions as "good" and "evil".