THE

SCHOOL
FOR
GOOD
 AND
EVIL
SUMMARY

Sophie and Agatha are friends who live in the village of

Gavaldon, but they could not be more different from each other.
Sophie is beautiful, vain, loves pink, and is convinced that she will be
kidnapped by the School Master and turned into a fairy-tale princess.
Agatha loves black, frumpy dresses, lives in a cemetery with her evil
cat, plays with matches, and doesn’t believe in fairy tales. Although
they are an unlikely pair, each sees the other for who she is, and they
have a close friendship. The School Master kidnaps both girls and
takes them to the School for Good and Evil, where Sophie is dropped
into the School for Evil, and Agatha is taken to the School for Good.
Sophie insists she’s in the wrong school, but she is told there are no
mistakes; she tries to escape. Agatha wants nothing to do with the
School for Good and escapes as soon as possible to get Sophie and
go home. Both girls are dragged back to their schools, where they
meet in an assembly. Agatha tries to convince Sophie they need to go
home, but Sophie spots King Arthur’s son Tedros and decides he is
her destiny.

Agatha sneaks out of her room to find Sophie and go home, but
Sophie doesn’t want to go. She switches uniforms with Agatha and
tries to go to the School for Good, but their clothes magically switch
back, and Agatha is put back in Good and Sophie in Evil. Sophie
endures Evil classes like uglification while insisting she’s good. In
Henchman class, the students must get a golden goose to lay an egg.
Sophie wishes in her mind for Tedros. Instead of helping her, the
goose turns from golden to gray; her professor is amazed that Sophie
is so evil the goose would rather give up her powers than help her. He
gives her a number-one ranking. Up in his tower, the School Master
looks at Sophie’s ranking with glee. Meanwhile, Agatha turns wish
fish back into a human in animal communication class because her
soul is pure Good. She is chased by other animals that want to be
human and destroy a whole wing of the Good castle as they chase her
on the roof. As Agatha turns a gargoyle back into a little boy, Tedros
kills it. Agatha yells at him, and Tedros is convinced she’s a witch.

In surviving fairy tales, the one class that Sophie and Agatha
have together, they are turned into hobgoblins. Tedros must pick
between them to determine the difference between Good and Evil.
When Tedros is drawn to Agatha, Sophie attacks her. They fight each
other and then Tedros. Sophie and Agatha suffer through burning
shoes for an afternoon as punishment for fighting. Sophie decides she
wants to go home, so they sneak up to the School Master’s tower,
where they find the Storian, the magical pen that records fairy tales.
The Storian starts writing their fairy tale, and the School Master tells
them they can’t go home until it's finished. If they, a witch and a
princess, are friends in the end, then they will go home. He gives
them a riddle and sends them back to their schools.

Agatha and Sophie puzzle over the riddle before realizing the
answer is true love. They plan for Tedros to fall in love with Sophie
and give her true love’s kiss to prove she is Good. Sophie spurns
Agatha’s help at first but ends up taking her advice to be herself. She
holds lectures at lunch instructing Nevers on how to be beautiful and
have good hygiene. Tedros is interested in her until he sees Sophie
ranked lowest in the School for Evil. Agatha agrees to mogrify—
magically transform—into a cockroach and attend classes with
Sophie; she pretends to have the plague so she doesn’t have to go to
her own classes. After a few weeks, Agatha helps Sophie become
number one in the Evil School. Tedros falls for Sophie and arranges a
meeting. Sophie and a disguised Agatha meet him, but Sophie
postpones their kiss. Sophie betrays Agatha because she doesn’t
need her now that she has a prince.

Tedros and Sophie’s love is tested when they are both selected
for the Trial by Tale, where the top 20 Evers and Nevers are released
into the Blue Forest and the last one standing wins. Tedros and
Sophie plan to win together, but Sophie’s peers decide to kill her
during the trial. After Sophie overhears a teachers’ meeting where
they decide to let her compete despite the threats against her, she
begs Agatha for help. Agatha agrees to help her in the trial. Sophie is
sent into the trial first, and Tedros is sent in last. Tedros makes her
promise that they will win together, proving their love is strong and
she is Good. Agatha, as a mogrified dove, guides Sophie to safety and
transforms her into a shrub. When the trial is almost over, Tedros
limps into the glen where the girls are disguised. He calls for Sophie,
who refuses to come out. Hester, Sophie’s roommate, attacks him,
but Sophie refuses to help him despite Agatha’s promptings. After
Hester appears to be vanquished, Agatha launches a sneak attack.
Sophie covers her eyes while Agatha saves his life. Tedros realizes
Sophie’s betrayal.

After the trial, Sophie pines for Tedros. She gives him a chance
to honor his promise to take her to the Everball, and he refuses.
Sophie retaliates by launching pranks on the Evers, but Tedros
refuses to capitulate to her; he is now drawn to Agatha because of
what she did for him. Agatha tries to apologize to Sophie, but Sophie
spurns her. Agatha has a crisis due to not knowing who she is apart
from Sophie. Professor Dovey, the Dean of the School for Good, helps
Agatha accepts that she belongs in the School for Good and is
beautiful because of her inside character. The night before the Circus
of Talents, the talent competition between the Evers and Nevers,
Agatha goes to stop Sophie’s prank. They end up in the moat, and the
School Master throws them outside the School for Good’s gate.
Tedros rescues Agatha from thorns and is angry when he finds
Sophie, but Agatha convinces him to forgive her. He spots Sophie’s
inner witch self and tells Sophie to stay away from him and Agatha.
Sophie realizes that Agatha is her nemesis and must be destroyed.

Sophie doesn’t go to the Circus of Talents, and Good handily

wins all the challenges. For Agatha’s talent, she reveals that the
guards for the School for Good and Evil are failed students and
challenges the School’s ideas about Good and Evil. Tedros names her
the winner of the Circus, but the doors magically open and let Sophie
in. She taunts Tedros into dueling her, but he kneels and asks Agatha
to the ball. In response to Agatha’s agreement, Sophie scream-sings
and summons ravens, who kill all the wolf and fairy guards except
one. The School Master names her the winner of the Circus of
Talents, and the Theater of Talents is expelled from the School of
Good. The students are deposited in the stair room of the School for
Good, where Sophie scream-sings again and shatters the glass
staircases and floors. Tedros tries to save Agatha, but Sophie tricks
him. She is about to kill him when Agatha tackles her. Sophie pushes
Agatha off a cliff, but Agatha is saved by the lone fairy who survived
Sophie’s attack.

Sophie disappears, and the School for Good braces for another
attack. Sophie throws a ball for the Nevers instead. The Evers think
Sophie is going to attack and march on the School for Evil first.
Tedros locks Agatha in a room when she protests. Agatha escapes,
and she gets to the School of Evil first, where Sophie begs her
forgiveness and asks her to dance to prevent war. When the Evers’
army bursts in, they find Sophie and Agatha dancing. Sophie
convinces Tedros that Agatha tricked him, so Tedros tries to kill her
while his army launches an arrow attack on the Nevers. Sophie stops
the arrows with magic.

Tedros realizes his mistake, but the damage is done. Because

Good attacked Evil, Evil students become beautiful, and Good
students become ugly. Sophie attacks the Ever army with giant rats,
but Agatha, who knows good always wins, turns the tide. Sophie
realizes that she must get to the Storian and write her own story to
win. She floods the ballroom and dumps the two schools in the moat,
where they continue to fight. Sophie climbs the School Master’s
tower; he reveals that he is the Evil brother who killed his Good
brother in the Great War so that evil would always win. In doing so,
he upset the balance of Good and Evil; as a result, now Good always
wins. He has been searching for pure Evil’s love to beat Good and
invites Sophie to be his partner forever. Sophie gets a vision of the
future with only hate and no happiness and pushes him away. Agatha
pulls her out of the tower into the lake.

On the beach, the School Master tries to stab Agatha with the
Storian, but Sophie jumps in front of her and sacrifices herself. The
swans on the students’ uniforms coalesce into the Good brother’s
spirit, and he destroys the School Master before disintegrating.
Sophie dies in Agatha’s arms, but Agatha brings her back to life with
true love’s kiss. They disappear and go home because they ended
their fairy tale as friends. Tedros reaches for Agatha, but he’s too
late.

2. based on the movie what pushes a person to choose

evil?
These people were once good and kind. But they were
damaged by other individuals for so long they become disillusioned by
the cruelness of the world they live in. Their once shining spark of
goodness becomes diminished over time, slowly succumbing to the
darkness that infects them. They slowly become angry, agitated.
Where once they were kind and patient …now they become cruel and
hard. It's a slow process of turning, like an illness that crawls over
every inch of your being. They feel that the world has turned its back
on them. Frustration sets in, what's the point of being nice when
nobody appreciates it anyway? Because the world is full of cruel
people, ready to devour the nice people. They take from them, then
they throw them out when they longer need them. The world is cruel,
people are cruel.

3. Do you believe that good and evil can be together?

Yes. Because people can be a combination of 'good' and
'bad' qualities. Some people who behave cruelly and brutally can be
rehabilitated and eventually display 'good' qualities such as empathy
and kindness.

4. How true love affects our moral judgement and action?

Love is a moral emotion. So, if we find ourselves segregating
love and morality in order to keep the peace, then we have already
made a mistake.

5. If you are Agatha, what will you choose? “romantic

love or friendship?”
Love. That's the one you want to spend your life with, share
finances, see first in the morning. Have kids with. If it is serious.
Normally, you don't have to choose. You love your friends differently.
Nobody should neglect their friends fo their love, but friends should
understand that they come second. Problems come, when one or two
of them doesn't want to accept it. They might break up a good
relationship. I have a friend who chose his friends when they were
single and they wanted to spend more time with him. His girlfriend
came second. Then she left, his friends found love, and they wouldn't
spend time with him at the expense of their relationship. Now he
realized his mistake and regrets it pretty much.

6. For you, what is one thing that evil can never have that
good can never do without?
True love. The one thing Evil can never have and Good can
never do without, and which is traditionally manifested in a kiss –– is
the famous “true love's kiss.” Sophie makes it her mission to earn true
love's kiss from a prince so that she can switch to the School for
Good.

7. BASED ON THE JUDGEMENTS AND ACTIONS

OF AGATHA, CAN WE CONSIDER HER AS A
“MORAL AGENT?” EXPLAIN.
Yes. Because a moral agent is any person or collective
entity with the capacity to exercise moral agency. It is suggested that
rational thought and deliberation are prerequisite skills for any agent.
In this way, moral agents can discern between right and wrong and be
held accountable for the consequences of their actions.

8. Choose one character and explain what kind of moral

values and character does this person has?
Agatha. Living a lonely life with her cat as her closest
companion, Agatha feels very out of place when swept away to the
bustling School of Good as an Ever. Agatha goes on a powerful journey
of self-discovery and self-love while within the fantasy realm.
9. Choose a line in the movie and explain how can you
relate to that line.
“You Already Did Something That Matters.” Can relate to this
line because in our life no one notices the right things we do but once
we do it. that when we make a mistake, they will see it and forget
what we did right.