GE2112 Representations of the Gothic
Final Essay
Ko Tong Tong (53056992)
28th November 2015
Topic 1: “Evil is a Point of View”
“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.” (Rice 69) Lestat told Louis this in Interview with the Vampire. It raised a very good concern for people to think. How can evil be defined?
For a vampire, blood consumption is a necessity to maintain their life. (Wolf 28) In order to do so, vampires have to kill. Suppose every vampire is both victim and perpetrator. There are vampires that are being turned to vampire unwillingly, such as Claudia, which makes her a victim. (Witter 118) At the same time she is also a perpetrator. …show more content…
But Victor killed his bride and destroyed his only hope because he thought that his monster is dangerous. He made the monster out of curiosity, but the monster never can begged him to be created. Who is the one that is not on a justice side? It is not responsible that someone created something and then fled away but then claimed that the thing is evil. People may think that monster is brutal and dangerous as it killed Victor’s relatives, however who drove this to happened is exactly Victor himself. He destroyed monster’s hope that made it angry and triggered those entire events after. It always feels right for human to kill a monster in their terms. But do all the monsters deserve to be killed? Killing people is an act of evil, but what about killing monsters? Then is it just for monsters to kill human that persecuted them for what they are? When the acts of killings are forced by someone to make, how would it be? There is no everlasting definition of evil.
It can be seen that there are no absolute evil or good in the world. They are all concerns of stands and point of views. When certain perspective is being viewed by different angles, new understandings can be generated from the truth. So, evil is only a point of view. Works citied
Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. 20th Anniversary ed. New York, N.Y. : Ballantine, 1997. Print.
Wolf, Leonard. Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
Witter, Ashley Marie, and Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story. New York: Yen, 2012.
Final Essay
Ko Tong Tong (53056992)
28th November 2015
Topic 1: “Evil is a Point of View”
“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.” (Rice 69) Lestat told Louis this in Interview with the Vampire. It raised a very good concern for people to think. How can evil be defined?
For a vampire, blood consumption is a necessity to maintain their life. (Wolf 28) In order to do so, vampires have to kill. Suppose every vampire is both victim and perpetrator. There are vampires that are being turned to vampire unwillingly, such as Claudia, which makes her a victim. (Witter 118) At the same time she is also a perpetrator. …show more content…
But Victor killed his bride and destroyed his only hope because he thought that his monster is dangerous. He made the monster out of curiosity, but the monster never can begged him to be created. Who is the one that is not on a justice side? It is not responsible that someone created something and then fled away but then claimed that the thing is evil. People may think that monster is brutal and dangerous as it killed Victor’s relatives, however who drove this to happened is exactly Victor himself. He destroyed monster’s hope that made it angry and triggered those entire events after. It always feels right for human to kill a monster in their terms. But do all the monsters deserve to be killed? Killing people is an act of evil, but what about killing monsters? Then is it just for monsters to kill human that persecuted them for what they are? When the acts of killings are forced by someone to make, how would it be? There is no everlasting definition of evil.
It can be seen that there are no absolute evil or good in the world. They are all concerns of stands and point of views. When certain perspective is being viewed by different angles, new understandings can be generated from the truth. So, evil is only a point of view. Works citied
Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. 20th Anniversary ed. New York, N.Y. : Ballantine, 1997. Print.
Wolf, Leonard. Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Print.
Witter, Ashley Marie, and Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story. New York: Yen, 2012.