Help with a school assignment... "Evil"

[antryg]

For a song how about: Four and Twenty - Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young
Epitath - King Crimson
Darkness, Darkness - Jessie Colin Young
Sober - Tool
Countdown to Extinction - Megadeath
War Pigs - Black Sabbath

[ 10-31-2003, 10:39 PM: Message edited by: antryg ]

[Boutte]

Damn Antyreg- you must as old as I am.

[Lord]

Originally posted by Donut: Lord of the Flies! "Whilst superficially simple, Lord of the Flies is in fact a highly complex novel. Golding uses the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a deserted tropical island to explore the existence of evil and violence in human nature. Golding's views reflect his understanding of the world in which he was living and develop out of his experience and cultural background. However, as with most good literature, this novel is not simply a statement of Golding's political and cultural views; rather, it is an imaginative exploration of certain aspects of human nature and, as you will discover when we read, discuss and analyse the text, he does not provide his readers with a nicely packaged set of views that they can either accept or reject. Instead, through his exploration of the events which occur on the island, he challenges the readers to attempt to develop their own views about the existence of evil and violence in the human race." Poor Piggy!

You should definately looks into Lord Of The Flies. William Golding was fascinated by Froyd's beliefs on Human Nature (Id, Ego, and Superego), and he helps show this in a story. It's an extremely complex book, but you wouldn't realize it unless you paid attention to these ideas of human nature and literary devices. Look a lot at symbolism and foreshadowing.
If you want to know about man's evil side, you might want to read up on Hobbes. He believed that all mankind is evil and selfish at heart.

[/)eathKiller]

For your movie:

The End of Evangelion.

Not only do humans end up being initially evil, we all turn out to be the bastard children of Adam and Lillith and the human race is infact the lilum which are spoken of in the Latin Genesis. O_o Yeeeh... Nerv was set up to protect the world and in the end the company destroys all of mankind, which turns out to not even be mankind... We just kept seeing the good in ourselves to the extent where we belived we were human, and that had to be it. Who really is human in Evangelion? I have no idea... It's a deep film that touches on everything, litterally.

[ 11-01-2003, 12:58 AM: Message edited by: /)eathKiller ]

[shadowhound]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, I am looking into the songs and movies (there goes another trip to the video store).

Thank you Father Bronze, I think that story will be perfect. Still deciding between that and a short story called "The examination" that I have lieing around somewhere.

harleyquinn that poem will probably be one of the ones I use, thnx.

As for movies I have to see American Psycho & The End of Evangelion (why have I never heard of that movie? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). I have seen Lord of the Flies and am considering it.

[shadowhound]

Originally posted by Stormymystic: movie..the ring, in the end, the evil won [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] will never watch that movie again

Nah, no supernatural movies. The Ring wasn't about the evil in human nature... actually that movie's themes etc really left alot to be desired [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Good movie though!