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Light and darkness have always been symbols of good and evil, respectively. In works ranging from popular movies and literature to the sacred texts of major world religions, the con-cepts of light and darkness have been used to convey the same messages. In the animated movie All Dogs Go to Heaven (Bluth, Goldman, & Pomeroy, 1989), heaven is depicted as a brightly lit place where the sun shines. Goodness is also asso-ciated with brightness and evil with darkness in some of Shakespeare’s plays. For example, in Macbeth, when Lady Macbeth wants to hide her evil deeds from heaven and from herself, she says, “Come, thick night/And pall thee in the dun-nest smoke of hell/That my keen knife see not the wound it makes/Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark/To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ ” (Shakespeare, 1623/1884, Act 1, scene 5, lines 48–52). Comparable symbolism is used in the Bible as well