Essays on Evil

Any specific error or fault that a person commits always has a cause. This is a clear indication that someone else is always to blame, regardless of what is sensible, logical, or significant. Some people will make up a fictitious moniker for one of their own alter egos in an...

The novel Shame describes some of the events that characterized South Africa's apartheid regime, as well as the horrors that emerged as a result of such hostility, resentment, and rage among the people of South Africa. The book tells the story of how people chose to manipulate each other based...

Hamlet's View on Fate versus Free WillHamlet explains how tragedians viewed the current struggle between free will and destiny. Shakespeare's fiction describes the universal conflict between people's innate ability to influence their future and their proclivity to embrace fate. As Shakespeare depicts it, fate has always played a critical role...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is an intriguing and compelling tale that easily attempts to explain good versus bad. Goodman Brown, along with his wife Faith, lives in a Salem Village. The tale begins with Goodman Brown explaining to his wife that he must fly for the night and then...

Evil acts and mental disorders Evil acts cannot be explained based on mental disorders. The explanation for this is that not all evildoers are mentally ill. When I hear of acts of evil, my thoughts instantly turn to evil and sanity. Mentally fit, and sane people perpetrate the majority of societal...

The Research: A Militia History of the Occupation of the Vancouver Island Coalfields, August 1913The research, A Militia History of the Occupation of the Vancouver Island Coalfields, August 1913, by way of Daniel Schade seeks to address the accuracy of the historical records that portray the militia and its men...

In the story Arnold Friend is considered as one of the central personages. His flamboyant nature and appearance brings to live his allegoric image as an evil individual. The powers he possesses can be related with most common forms of evil as defined via the Christian religion. The author of...

Genocide is described as the act of intentionally murdering a large number of people in a specific country or ethnicity. In the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the killing of an ethnic group, a racial or even a religious group deliberately refers to genocide as a murder. The first genocide in...

In the universe, there is both good and bad In the universe, there is both good and bad. Since it causes people to suffer, the bad tends to be prominent. According to Augustine, it does not take much learning to notice that something is moving in the wrong direction. My point...

Cruelty, according to Hallie (13), is a continuous cycle of humiliation that lasts for years in a given society. He argues that members of a given culture have the right to control how the evil characteristic manifests itself. Cruelty, according to the author, is a manifestation of society's failure to...

Animal studies and their significance Animal studies are laboratory experiments on live animals that cause them discomfort, anxiety, suffering, or even permanent injury. They are also used by scientists in their quest for vaccines and curative medicines. Animal research has been the topic of many debates over the years. Although some...

Satire is the use of satire to highlight flaws or negative characteristics in a culture, a person, or a government. Voltaire and Swift use parody in their literary works Candide and A Modest Proposal to highlight societal horrors and folly. They convey their messages to their readers in both toothed...