Are there clearly defined roles?

There are never clearly defined roles; which pretty much means that good people can sometimes do evil things, and evil people can in fact do good things. What differentiates between what makes a person good or evil is their intent. Even if an evil person does something good, we may not know if their intentions are pure or not. The same thing goes for somebody “good,” even though they may do something which would be considered “evil,” they may have a good reason and their intent may be pure, as evil as their actions may be. For example if we found out that this lady kills a man we would automatically think, “oh my god she’s EVIL!” but then later on if we found she killed this man because he had a knife to her babies neck, then the story would change completely.

It is in fact pretty difficult to see somebody that is pure “evil” and somebody that is pure “good,” it is almost impossible. Evil people can have their good moments and good people can show their “Dark” side every once in a while because nobody is perfect. Also considering “good” and “evil” is strictly subjective; not everybody would see somebody as evil, and not everybody would see the same person as good. One person may see him/her as evil while another may see him/her as good. Some people may even just want to put on an act; meaning they may just want everyone to see them as evil or they may just want everyone to see them as good. Most people obviously want to be seen as good rather than evil. Somebody may say or do bad things but deep down they may not even mean to do everything that they do, which probably wouldn’t make them entirely evil. The same goes for somebody trying to be good; just because they act “good” doesn’t make them good, because they may have impure motives and intents. For example in the show heroes; there was this character that from the start was introduced as pure evil because he always killed everyone in sight for their “powers,” and this character was portrayed as evil. Although later on in the series, we found that this character wasn’t evil at all, he did in fact have at least half a heart because he had gone good for quite sometime. This just proves that roles aren’t clearly defined, or else this character would be evil throughout the entire show.

Overall, being seen as evil doesn’t make you evil, and being seen as good doesn’t make you “good.” No characters are exclusively good and/or evil.