Mother and Evil Things

Evil is all around us. People have a choice to be either good or evil. I define evil as being unmoral, unnatural, intentionally hurtful, and outright mean. Many people do evil things without meaning to. Good people who choose to be good can slip and do evil things. In East of Eden the unmoral, unnatural source of evil is Cathy or if you’d like to call her Kate. Cal is our character who slips from good and completes evil deeds.
Cathy or Kate in my eyes is a monster. Right from birth Cathy chooses to be evil. As a little girl her physical traits portray her as a monster. “I believe there are monster born in the world to human parents, some you can see, misshapen and horrible with huge heads or tiny bodies: some with tails or mouths in odd places.” Cathy is born with backwards nipples and goat like ankles, making her unnatural to the human world. Her personality is strange, as well. Cathy does not play with dolls like other children her age. She is a manipulator and has no empathy towards anything. As Cathy grows she continues to define evil. She kills her parents with no remorse or effect. We see even more attributes of her evil behavior by her becoming a prostitute and the relationship she forges with Adam. Adam truly believes that Cathy loves him and does not see the evilness in her. Cathy maintains her relationship with Adam because she is pregnant and decides she will stay with him until the babies are born. We see a lack of motherly instinct that is natural in most mothers; Cathy decides to leave the boys as soon as they are born. When Adam traps Cathy she takes his life and goes back to her ways of prostition, never regretting her action or looking back on what she has done. This is a portrayal of a person naturally evil. Cal is the good person that does evil things. He is smart and through fear gains respect. We see him wanting to do the right thing but in the end always end up hurting someone. Cal wants to help his father and becomes a