In comparison of The Lottery and The Most Dangerous Game both Connell and Jackson convey to the readers that man is inherently evil and that choices made based on societal standards, traditions, and learned behavior may not be the morally correct choice. This confirms the passage of Scripture from Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (KJV) The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson share a common theme which is showing the darker side of humans, that humans possess evil tendencies and that the morals of people can be corrupted. Connell and Jackson show us that injustice and cruelty in society can be accepted as a normal behavior. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has an unknown
Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice. Frankenstein's Monster's anguish comes from the rejection he feels from society “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”. Posing this Rhetorical question highlights the Irony of how the monster while innocent has been judged just as the reader has. Influenced by her father Mary Shelley's story of a monster portrays the idea that to be human goes beyond that of the body. The Monsters vulgarity and the Replicants perfection does not define them their reaction and action and the ability to think morally and ethically makes them human.
I humbly bow to your attempt to challenge man to think beyond their own beliefs by simply questioning just what their beliefs are. You have revealed the concept that when man truly believes in something, he should undoubtedly be able to support his ideals. Your arrest though, proves my thesis that man is inherently evil especially when they arrest people for simply going against the majority. Should we just lie down and accept this relentless oppression? No, we should rally the minority and oppose those whom first opposed
We have talked about a similar topic in class on why the monster was isolated from the society, and while the discussion I thought that it was the monster’s lack of self-esteem that eventually caused his exile from the society. I understand that he would not have any self-esteem before his education of language and knowledge, since before the monster learns to express himself, his actions are no less than terrifying which would only make
I think that William’s Golding’s Lord of The Flies suggests that man are inherently evil such as Jack because of factors such as ignorance, but also there are people who are inherently good because of their natural love for people, and calm inner-beings, for example Simon. The ignorance in people is a great source of revealing one’s inherent evil because when someone shows ignorance, he is often associated with an evil characteristic. We see this firstly, during the event when the fire goes out and Ralph gets mad at Jack for letting the fire go out, which serves a purpose of a signal fire for ships passing by. At that time Jack is hunting and looking to spill some animal’s blood when he is supposed to be doing his assigned duty. As see on Page 82: “You didn’t ought to have let that fire out.
As he said that in fact evil comes from angels and human beings who chose deliberately to deny and disobey what God had taught them, by turning away from him and what he had wished for mankind. Augustine believed that every human being was an offshoot of Adam and hence that every single person in the world is guilty of evil, this is as it was Adam who committed ultimate sin in the Garden of Eden. Augustine believed very strongly that evil should be punished. Therefore it was Augustine’s theodicy that said that natural evil in the world is a fitting punishment for moral wickedness. He strongly believed that evil is solely a result of human rebellion.
It can also be as complex as involving the uninvolved or innocent people into your life affairs, which basically means that when someone is evil, they drag someone who had nothing involved with you into your own affairs. Evil can also be in forms of omission and commission. In the Puritan lifestyle, evil was extremely common. The Puritans believed that evil was a sign of disobedience towards God, and brought by the Devil. The play, “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller is an excellent example of evil being practiced in a Puritanism society.
In their absence, the mind corrodes from a state of civility to a blood-thirsty hell. In conclusion, multiple characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding prove that the satanic forces that compel the shocking events on the island come from within the human psyche rather than from a supernatural realm in mythology. Golding employs a religious reference ,the Id, the instinct that governs the individual's sense of survival, is by nature evil in its selfish pursuit of its own goals. Golding uses the novel to demonstrate the progression of the mind towards savagery once the order of society is
But the ending wasn’t satisfying because the adult just told the boys I hope no one got killed and then Ralph said while crying “Only 2” then it ended. If I were on the island and were one of the boys I would’ve handled the conflict probably the same way because I’d probably lose my mind like all of them too and not know what the right thing to do would be. - The hidden message in this story is that Democracy is beautiful, yet fragile. It leads to freedom. But that freedom can be dangerous because people act and think like children, are selfish and easily manipulated.
Once someone is evil and he does bad things, the damage is done. There is no necessity of tracing the roots of the wrath that causes the beast inside becoming alive. This means that either the human race is born devilish or it grow up to be so, both have same consequences. In my opinion, people are born evil. There is a beast inside of every single one of us and some just allow it to be seen, some hide it till forever.