Throughout Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, there is a constant battle between good and evil, and many problems dealing with greed. In most stories good prevails, but things happen differently this time. The characters, as in real life, have problems with greed and evil thoughts, which will bring them great misfortune during the story.
During the story the author often uses foreshadowing to give hints to the reader of future events. When the story starts, a storm is coming on a late October night. The storm symbolizes the evil approaching the town. Usually it seems a storm would resemble something dark and evil, because a stormy night is always a classic setting for something evil. At the climax of the story, Charles Halloway reads a passage from Shakespeare which says, “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”(p. 137) Again, this passage tells of an evil that is approaching. This sets an eerie mood to the story and......

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Title: Something Wicked This Way Come
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