The curriculum unit, “Confronting Evil in Life and Literature,” provides high school students an opportunity to view, read, evaluate, discuss and write about fictional and real evil images. Teachers can use this unit with works that are already a part of the junior and senior canon. This unit pairs works which deal with similar treatments of evil. In addition, it suggests varied resources, assignments and approaches to critical reading, analysis and discussion of Beloved, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Genesis, Hamlet, Medea, Scarlet Letter, Things Fall Apart, and Wuthering Heights. This unit will provide eleventh and twelfth grade English students a safe forum to view, read, discuss, and write about some of the visual and auditory fictional and real evil images they encounter daily. Recent newsworthy events including ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and tragic untimely deaths at Columbine High in Colorado reinforce the need for intellectual discussion of psychological, philosophical and religious aspects of horrific behavior emitting from civilized beings.