Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Nature of Good and Evil

 In my book that I am currently reading called Technomancer: Unspeakable Things there is a lot of reflection about the nature of good and evil. Throughout the story, the line between these two is often blurred and confused for one another. When a character thinks that they are doing good, they are actually committing acts of evil, but they themselves are not aware of it. Killing other people is even a theme in the book that is often confused for good instead of evil. For example, a character named Jenna wants to take revenge against the hotel owners when her husband mysteriously disappears out of nowhere. She thinks that by killing them she will do good by avenging her husband's death.
  There are other sins that are confused as righteous in the novel. Some of these sins are greed and wrath, which are both thought by many characters to be truly good. Overall, this novel shows how it is not only in stories that we see the nature of good and evil appear. In real life, we can often do things that we think are good, when in the end, we have actually done something truly evil. Even when we are conscious that we are doing something evil, we can sometimes see it as good in the long run, or that it will benefit us, and we don't consider the consequences before making our decisions.

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