The Choice of Evil
Authors often discuss the evil nature of society into their literature to make a strong social statement or to define human nature. Through the novels of Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein and Paradise Lost, the authors include characters whose actions and psychological aspects depict a truly evil nature. Throughout each novel, varying aspects of society and different desires produce the evil nature within characters. The authors, Dostoevsky, Shelley, and Milton, use the causes of evil to enhance the complexity of characters along with providing another layer to the crime or evil deed. The evil nature of man stems from the pressures of society, which then results in manipulation and corruption of the human mind. In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov’s poverty-stricken world, surrounds him with despair, thus creating an environment for his evil nature to flourish. Raskolnikov justifies the unimaginable murder of a wretched pawnbroker by stating that the community is better without her. For “killing her was atonement for forty sins. She was sucking the life out of poor people” (Dostoevsky 478). The poverty which he faces gives explanation to the theory that man is born inherently good and the evils of so
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Approximate Word count = 1534
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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