The populace around the world is living in a society, where the injustice, oppression, discrimination, and conspiracies transpire from time to time without anyone acknowledging these dilemmas. Individuals, who acquired a vast knowledge about societal issues that other individuals fail to recognize, attempt to express those problems through literature. Many prominent authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O’Connor, and James Baldwin enlightened what people fail to comprehend. Specifically, these authors explored deeper into an individual’s darkest and vilest personality, which perpetuate his or her own morality. Consequently, as I progress through my life, I realize that every single individual is endowed with a malevolent nature that is …show more content…
Within the society where I am living in, I have to be cautious for not judging an individual based on his or her appearance. The appearance might be utilized as a manipulative entity to conceal one’s malevolent nature. I was astonished of the way Poe ingeniously implied malice and wicked elements into the protagonist and antagonists in “Hop-Frog”. The narrator describes Hop-Frog as one “who ground them and gnashed them as he foamed at the mouth, and glared, with an expression of maniacal rage, into the upturned countenances of the king and his seven companions” (Poe 1255). Hop-Frog, who appears to be acquitted in the beginning, transforms himself into a savage beast filled with vengeance by killing the king and the ministers. This idea expresses how people in society often put on a cloak of civility to blend in with a standardized community while they sustain many dark conspiracies and malevolence within their souls. Another perspective I perceived in life was that people utilized their authoritative power to degrade and control others instead of doing other virtuous things. For instance, the tyrant, under the king’s control, humiliated Trippetta by “pushed her violently from him, and threw the contents of the brimming goblet in her face” (Poe 1251). The fact that individuals improperly utilize their granted powers signifies how their malice …show more content…
I believe that everyone is born the same, but their behaviors and actions are learned and taught by observing others. Especially, both negative and positive behaviors can be learned by everyone. In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the Misfit is portrayed to be a serial killer, who is secluded from a standardized society and does not adhere to religious belief. The Misfit, at the end of the story, “sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest” (O’Connor 1295), ended up killing the Grandmother. This example can let me conclude that an individual, who lacks the faith of love, passion, and nurture, can seek for the negative entities to learn and adhere to in order to satisfy his or her need. In addition, the negative entities can be acquired and learned by a group of people, which can establish instability and corruption within a society. Another possibility for a person to commit an act of immorality is the aftereffect of an extreme external factor that psychologically provokes a person’s inner vile nature. In “Hop-Frog,” the protagonist’s desire for revenge is incited by Trippetta’s maltreatment from a merciless king and his ministers, which causes Hop-Frog to sadistically set them on blazes. He is “pretending to scrutinize the king more closely, he held the flambeau to the flaxen coat which enveloped him, and which