Cameron's Ultra Super Mega Incredibly Awesome Question (as in a prompt)

In the following 40 mintues write a quantitative essay of why evil is attractive. Use details from various works you have examined in the past semester. Make sure to cite certain inalienable sources to represent your point. Take a stand and defend it.

Recent News

Fidel Castro, the former dictator of Cuba has stepped down at 83 years old, relinquishing control to his younger brother. Perhaps this will allow for the embargo to end? I'm sure everyone would be fine with that, bring democracy to Cuba, while also gaining a new vacation spot, and legally being able to purchase Cuban Cigars?

Maximum Ride

For my independent study I read the novel Maximum Ride. This novel centered around a small group of children, all geetically engineered at birth and grafted with avian DNA, giving them wings, the ability to fly, and several other bir-like traits. These children have escaped from the "school" where they were kept and are now on the lamb, trying desperately to find a place to live, without threat of being found. The children were made this way by a group of scientists attempting to make improved humans capable of warfare on a different level, once the expirements escape the scientist release another creation know as the "erasers" to try and catch them. The erasers are humans bred with canine DNA and resemble a werewolf. They endlessly hunt the children, bloodthirsty and savage they stop at nothing to destroy every piece of these escapees. Although this novel portrays the erasers as the evil villains which seek to destroy the main characters, is it not in actuality the scientists who created both expirements who should be blamed. Is playing God an alright thing to do? The scientists treat the children with cold disregard as objects they created, and although each child has a distinct personality and consciousness, the scientists would sooner dispose of any one rather than take the trouble to care for it. Once again the human beings are responsible for the evil found in this novel, somehow pulled towards it through the course of their lifetime. By allowing themselves to be captured by the evil, they have gained many advantages, freedom of decision, large profit gains, and an escape from morals which would have previously destroyed their conscious. This pattern of evil can be found in nearly every novel with a protagonist, and in each scenario the new recruit gains in some way.

The Artist's Portrait of a Young Man

My big question related to why evil is attractive. This novel centered on this point almost continuously. Stephen is constantly driven towards the path of sin and pleasure, albeit the fact that he has been raised in religious settings all his life which condone such behavior. For some reason Stephen is unable to escape this pull towards the evil side of life, preffering the warmth and pleasure of a woman rather than the security and stability of the church. Throughout the novel Stephen constantly weighs the pros and cons of each choice, consistently finding less and less pros for staying with the church. In the end his choice of following the path of evil was quite predictable, and seems to fit the characteristics imbued within all humankind. Not only did the path allow for personal freedom and constant pleasures, but it also allowed for Stephen to finally contemplate things which had before been unaccessible due to the churche's restrictive, ever watching eyes.

Profitable??? I think not (big question)

Murder is a significant part of Crime and Punishment, it is what the entie plot revolves around. It is a long established form of evil, and despite its various moral dilemas and impending charges millions of people continue to enact it each year. The act of taking another's life for profit and the well being of others is a challenging prospect but looked upon as evil.

Crime and Punishment in relation to the big question (which is much larger than evan's dilt!!!)

I believe Crime and Pubnishment is easily relatable to my big question, through the character of Marmeladov. The domestic abuse within this novel is apalling, there are mothers beating childre, husband beating wives, and wives berating their husbands. Domestic violence is a growing tendency in today's world and is a form of abuse where one person inferiorizes another through physical demeaning. It seems that this sort of evil is attractive due to its methods of gaining superiority, not only is the abuser free to demean the partner however they want, but a class sytem is also established, resulting in one partner being permanently inferior to the other. This philosophy can be seen continuously throughout this novel, Marmeladov is established as the leader of the house through marriage but once he arrives back from his drunken leave, Katerina abuses him and the children and is infused with a superiority only possible through her derranged beatings of husband and children.

Below is a quote from People's Helath outlining the basis of domestic violence, "Your partner apologizes and says the hurtful behavior won't happen again. But you fear it will. At times you may start to doubt your own judgment, or wonder whether you're going crazy. You may even feel like you've imagined the whole thing. But the emotional or physical pain you feel is real. If this sounds familiar, you may be the victim of domestic violence.

Also called domestic abuse, intimate partner violence or battering, domestic violence occurs between people in intimate relationships. It can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse. Men are sometimes abused by female or male partners, but domestic violence is most often directed toward women. It can happen in heterosexual or lesbian relationships.

Unfortunately, domestic violence against women is common. It happens to teenage girls and women of all backgrounds. As many as 4 million women suffer abuse from their husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends or intimate partners in the United States each year."

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