Human evil is the act of a person doing something, knowing that the action they commit is very wrong. Like some people choose to do the right thing, there are also a handful of people who choose to do the wrong types of actions. I do not believe people are born evil, I do believe though that they can have influence from close relations around them. For instance, parents, if they scream and yell, or do acts that are evil, can have an affect on their children who would then form those habits. People, if to that point, can change though. With a lot of help and guidance people can be helped and turned back into a great and helpful person again. Some circumstances can be worse than others though. Killings, drugs, or any other acts of cruelty can drive people to do the same acts, or even …show more content…
An example from the story ,A Tale of Two Cities, Madam Defarge does not have much empathy for people during the attacks, cutting peoples heads off, and attacking people in Chapter 21. Madame Defarge was driven to do this, because all of the hardships that her people, including herself, have gone through. Evil can develop in people of any age and can have disastrous effects depending on who it is and what that individual is upset about. The younger a person is, the easier it may be to rid them of the evil that may have been caused by events of people around them. The older they are they more they would want to hold on to what they are feeling. Also, an older person would feel the need to spread and justify what they are feeling to make more people follow their cause. This is done in hope for a better life, or a change in the way certain events already are. I think when people say that someone is born evil, it directs more towards a certain person and they might not have a past of very
"Come on, come back to my place we'll have fun I have colored Tv and snacks," a tall older man said as he grabbed the woman by her arm and shoved her into the truck while screaming and kicking, the man was getting angry, telling her to shut up and to be quiet, but then the car had just come to a stop. As she screamed and tried to escape, she was soon dragged out of the car, hit over the head, and never seen again. This was the reoccurring and shared story for many of Samuel Little's victims. In the classic nature vs nature it looks to see if people were born evil or if they were nurtured or pushed to becoming evil. Samuel was born on June 7th,1940, and grew up in a troubled home.
With this in mind, I could connect with two people who also thought about how evil people can be. William Golding and Elie Wiesel wrote books that magnify the circumstances under which people act evil. Wiesel explores the conditions and the uncivil actions of the people in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Golding, too, takes a dive into the human capacity for evil in post-WWII times. Evil is causing harm to others that are unnecessary or over
Everyone has the potential to do evil, whether they think so or not. The ability to be a monster, tyrant, or zealot is present in everyone. As Kenneth L. Woodward relates in his article, Overcoming Sin, “we are all children of darkness struggling toward the light” (para. 2). So if everyone has the potential to do evil, what is it that keeps them in check?
Because people have good and bad qualities, they also have the ability to act on either quality depending on the situation. Seemingly good people can be “seduced” (Zimbardo, 2007, p.211) into acting against their nature. Under the right situational stress, people can act cruelly even if their personality is not
Nobody is born bad, not even the evilest of souls. In the Lord of the Flies, the main point of emphasis is that inherent good is in everyone, but so is original sin. The beast is inside of us all, and that is why with every child comes a beast. People turn savage because of their life experiences. Many times throughout our life we must make a decision that can change us forever.
Whether working with a co-worker, learning with a classmate or hanging out with a friend, the thought of any of them having the potential to be evil does not cross the mind. Everyday people are not typically evil beings, but if people are not evil beings then why do they commit actions like torture, killing and genocide? Could it be that the certain people committing the acts are just monsters deep inside, or could the actions be mere products of circumstance? In his article "The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror", Crispin Sartwell, a journalist and philosopher, advises his audience to take a look at the heinous acts people have committed throughout history as a way to show us how anyone could commit evil acts, including ourselves. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak,
Technically, the individuals aren’t born evil, the environment in which they grew up in made them evil. Everyone is born good and deserve natural rights. It’s the state's job to ensure that people's rights aren't infringed upon and “the state's failure to secure them gave men the right to revolution" (Granato). If people's rights are being taken away from them unlawfully they have the right to rebel or start a revolution to get those rights back or to gain more security for their rights. Citizens also have the right to replace their government if they feel that their government isn’t protecting their rights.
Perhaps one of the most well known fictional villains of all time, Madame Defarge is bloodthirsty for revenge against the aristocracy. She demands retribution against the aristocracy since they murdered her entire family. Her character evolves from a quiet observer to one of the most important figures in the revolution. Throughout the novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, Madame Defarge starts off as a quiet woman knitting on the sidelines then she turns into a vicious villain seeking revenge.
Some people could be born with evil souls and some could be born with good souls and the reason we are always fighting with each other is because it’s evils opinion against goods opinion. Or are we all born with a nutreal soul and then decide to be either good or evil based on the type of enviroment they grew up in. The most popular opinion is that people are born evil but choose to do good things to make up for it and
We all like to think that evil is not born within us, but rather nurtured into us; while this may be true for some, others have evil born directly into them. When man toys with the powers reserved for only God, God strikes back with a wicked evil to show man the power that they truly lack. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein contains a prime example of a being born of unnatural causes and thus having these evil urges that they cannot control. Frankenstein’s monster is a highly intelligent being, and hence he is very manipulative.
In closing, the book lord of the flys is an excellent book that tells of the lenths man will go through when left alone with their own survivival it shows the way man has been and always will be with evil in their hearts. No matter how you were raised how you have lived or will live your life you will always have evil the only thing that controls whether you express that evil is you, as only you can control how you live your life much like how the boys let the seetbacks and overall bad situation get the best of them letting the very evil that resided within them since birth break their moral, and ethics, letting their evil consume them. “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.” (Psalm
There are even those who can be both at the same time, they are good to their loved ones and evil towards their enemies. There are many different cases and it will never really come down to one explanation. People that are good can change due to events that happen in their lives. They are fighting with themselves on whether they want to do good or evil but in the end chose evil, “If Fernandez 2 someone’s evil, it can’t be blamed on inborn capacities. We all have a heart of conscience, a heart of reverence and a heart of right and wrong” (Mencius 80).
Firstly, man is born evil because society shows him to be evil. An example of this is how parents must raise their child to be good. A parent never has to raise their child to do bad things. A young child might draw on the wall and believe that it is art, however the parent will stop the child and tell them that drawing on the wall is a bad thing to do.
People of virtue go out of their way to put others first and think about how they can help others and the world around them. Conversely, evil is understood to be morally repugnant behavior or acts which intentionally cause harm to others. Someone who is bad only thinks about themselves and how they can use others to their own benefit. I think that good and evil is inherent in all of us, as humans, and has been within us since the beginning of our existence.
Evil is a simple word that we learn at a young age and that we understand is bad. However, our youth and innocence prevents us from knowing the weight the word holds. As our understanding of evil develops, we begin to see evil all around us. Although we hold common societal definitions of evil, each person is bound to view evil slightly different from others. Someone might consider alcoholism evil, while others consider it normal: someone might believe racism is evil, while others believe it is natural.