If one does nothing in order to stop evil, then it will prevail. Essay about "Dry September" by William Faulkner.

If one wants to stop something from happening, he or she needs to take action to stop it. A barber in the story "Dry September" by William Faulkner is presented with the situation of stopping an innocent man from being killed and stops short of helping the innocent man. Edmund Burke's "All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" is the same situation that the barber went through. …

…Faulkner and Edmund Burke would agree with one another because they both show that evil will triumph if nobody does anything. Faulkner showed it in his story of how the barber did not do enough to stop McLendon from killing an innocent man. In Burke's quote he says that evil will triumph if nobody does anything. I believe that if you do nothing to stop evil from triumph then there is no way you can