what is evil
What is the evil
What could be consider as evil? What do you understand for evil? Would if you tell your wife you have a meeting and you will be home late, but in fact you went to a bar instead could be consider as evil? In “the nature of evil” Eagleton gives a definition for evil as “evil is not something positive but a kind of lack or defectiveness, a sort of nothingness or negativity, an in ability to be truly alive”(Eagleton1). Which means evil is some action due to lost confidence to live well. On the other hand, Scott thinks that, evil is unwillingness to tolerate the sense. The problem to understanding what is the evil is that ,the changing of the society and human behaviors made people’s attitude to evil also changing. In the Flannery O’Connor’s “everything that rises must be converge” gives a story about evil and made a deeply think about the evil.
In this story of “everything that rises must be converge” the are two main characters, Julian and his mother. Julian is a young man who just graduate from college. He has no money to pay for rent so that he live with his mother. He sells typewriters to earn money to pursue his dream to be a writer. In this story, as graduate, he has learned that racial equality at college. But later on he found that is impossible to have any meaningful conversation with black people. Julian’s mother, a middle aged woman who had been told by doctor have to loss weight so that she went to the reducing class. His mother sacrifices her intire life to give her son a better life. Since his mother was influenced by her parents, she believes that the races should keep in this society and since her family was a slaveholder, so that she has a condescending way treating black people. In this story, evil has been display on both of them, but which one could be consider as the real evil? From my point of view, Julian is the evil one. When people persist in something, the evil will control their mind so that,
What could be consider as evil? What do you understand for evil? Would if you tell your wife you have a meeting and you will be home late, but in fact you went to a bar instead could be consider as evil? In “the nature of evil” Eagleton gives a definition for evil as “evil is not something positive but a kind of lack or defectiveness, a sort of nothingness or negativity, an in ability to be truly alive”(Eagleton1). Which means evil is some action due to lost confidence to live well. On the other hand, Scott thinks that, evil is unwillingness to tolerate the sense. The problem to understanding what is the evil is that ,the changing of the society and human behaviors made people’s attitude to evil also changing. In the Flannery O’Connor’s “everything that rises must be converge” gives a story about evil and made a deeply think about the evil.
In this story of “everything that rises must be converge” the are two main characters, Julian and his mother. Julian is a young man who just graduate from college. He has no money to pay for rent so that he live with his mother. He sells typewriters to earn money to pursue his dream to be a writer. In this story, as graduate, he has learned that racial equality at college. But later on he found that is impossible to have any meaningful conversation with black people. Julian’s mother, a middle aged woman who had been told by doctor have to loss weight so that she went to the reducing class. His mother sacrifices her intire life to give her son a better life. Since his mother was influenced by her parents, she believes that the races should keep in this society and since her family was a slaveholder, so that she has a condescending way treating black people. In this story, evil has been display on both of them, but which one could be consider as the real evil? From my point of view, Julian is the evil one. When people persist in something, the evil will control their mind so that,