The quote, “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness” by Joseph Conrad, means that people don’t have to believe in evil things because men can do just as much evil. Ghosts, spirits and things like that can’t do as bad of things as men can. Men are capable of creating just as much evil as those things. I agree with the author of this quote. I think that he is trying to get across a point to people that think men do nothing wrong. This is not true.
There are people in this world that force other people to do things they do not want to do. There are people that hurt other people, and even kill others. General Zar off in “The Most Dangerous Game” is a good person to use as an example. Seeing as if the story takes place mainly on an island you can see how him being bad comes into play.
When you first meet him in the story he seems like a fairly nice man, just a normal hunter that likes to get a good kill. Once the plot begins to go on you see what he hunts and that he tortures people by sending them running from him. You begin to see how bad of a person he really is. He was taking other people’s lives for his thrill and fun.
Another person to talk about is Mo stressor from “The Cask of Amontillado.” Throughout the whole beginning of the plot you start thinking what a nice man he is to be helping Fortuna do. Then without notice he turns around and kills him. That’s not a very nice thing to do. After acting really nice he turned around and killed him.
The Essay on Lord Of The Flies "Is Man Inherently Evil?"
Is man inherently evil? Many people have different answers to this question some do not believe that there is such a thing as good or evil. What is good and evil? Is evil a part of every human being from the moment he is on this planet? I think that man himself chooses in which direction to go to and the environment influences his or her decisions. Many think that you are not inherently evil or ...
So when the author wrote the quote, he was probably trying to say to people to think about it a lot before saying ghosts, spirits, etc. are the worst things to encounter. They ” re not; there are a lot of people that are really bad. They do things that normal people wouldn’t do. As you can see from the examples I showed 2 people that were bad.
