Revisit the excerpt from the play that you read earlier. Which parts of the excerpt best exemplify the theme that human nature is torn between good and evil?

Faustus is torn between good and evil at several points in the play. The story starts with Faustus thinking about which subject to pursue. His options fall under two categories—those that are consistent with a useful, productive life, and black magic, which can apparently satisfy his need for power. He chooses black magic.

When Faustus tries to sign his contract with Lucifer with his blood, his blood thickens and solidifies. This makes Faustus hesitate momentarily. He wonders, “What might the staying of my blood portend?/ Is it unwilling I should write this bill?”

The good angel and the evil angel both try to influence his decisions. The good angel represents the desire in human nature to be good and repent for sins, while the bad angel represents sinfulness and a disregard for the consequences of sin.

Explanation:

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faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.