The passage on pages 201-202 is an illustration of love and togetherness. L'Engle's conception of goodness ( happiness, success, and victory) is a Love, a caring touch,a feeling that everyone you love and care about is near, by your side. Accentuation of L'Engle's on "Loving presence", knowing that everyone you love is near and safe, because in the beginning of the book there was sadness in her (L'Engles) passages:"But it was still not possible to think about her father without the danger of tears","I'm sorry, Meglet. Maybe if Father were here, he could help you.."Someone they all love was missing, gone, and their life was incomplete.
"Meg could feel rhythmical pulsing.It was a pulsing not only about her, but in her as well, as though the rhythm of her heart and lungs was no longer her own but was being worked by some outside force." I think the author's illustration of evil is anything that can interfere with a personal freedom, anything that enforces it's ideas and decisions on a person. I think a place with the houses and buildings that look alike, people that are suppose to be acting like robots and doing same things at a same pace, the big disembodied brain, that makes decisions for everyone else, the men with red eyes - all this is referring to the USSR (Red Flag, Red Army, All the Communistic Ideas were written on red colors, Communistic Party - "The big brain"). Even when Meg was ready to give in to the IT, red miasma began to creep before her eyes. Otherwise,why red color? US American understanding of evil especially during the cold war with the USSR, was associated with communism, where people were "forced" to do things in a same way and think alike, where someone who would do things differently will be severely punished. But why LOVE can defeat COMMUNISM? Why love is relevant in this very context?
"We'll never see Mother or the twins again!...We're lost out in space! She did not realize that she was as much in the power of the Black Thing as Charles Wallace." Meg in this passage give up hope and blames her Father for what happened, she says things that can destroy love and presence of loving people, and that is considered evil by L'Engle.
"Good" in this text signifies Love, togetherness, personal freedom, clarity, hope, caring presence. "Evil" in this text signifies loneliness, hate ("the Black Thing pushed her down into hate") banishment, distance between loving people, anything that can take away a freedom, anything that would enforce people to be like everybody else.
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