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Good Man Is Hard to Find
The story based on fiction "Good Man is hard to Find" provides insight of the human feelings and desires. The coming events in lives of human beings play an important role. The impacts of various events have a profound effect on human lives even after being raised in humble environments. The characters of the fiction are normal human beings living around us and encountered by us in our daily lives. The old lady "Grandmother" is also one of the traditional women believing in kindness and goodness of human beings. She also propagates her beliefs of human behavior even in the severe conditions of life. The old lady had strong feelings about her death and events coming in her life. The traditional men and women had a humble attitude towards humanity and valued the cultural and religious philosophies. The belief in God, prayers, and forgiveness vanishes form the thoughts and acts of humans indulging in violence and cruelty.
Violence and Cruelty:
The origins and persistence of evil behavior is researched and narrated through research...
The research sheds light on various issues of evil behavior. The human nature based on the egotism, revenge, idealism, and sadism provides the roots of evil conducts. The theory provides a distinctive view point of individuals. The evil behavior requires a perpetrator and a victim. The difference of opinion and perspective in both provides the grounds for escalating rival behaviors. There are various forms of executing evil behavior exhibited by the offenders including murders, beating, violence, betrayal, and torture. However the specifics of the event and related consequences have a profound impact on the evil behavior. According to Baumeister the gap or difference in perspectives of the victim and perpetrator provides the required basis for exercising violent behavior.
The reasons of adopting evil behavior along with the examples of specific evil behavior are also found in the work of Baumeister. The perception of the persona regarding the evil acts is also a notable basis. The effects of education and attaining high moral grounds persists that…
References:
Baumeister, Roy F. Evil: Inside human violence and cruelty. Macmillan, 1999.
Enders, Jody, and David Bevington. "The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence." Early Theatre 4 (2001): 154-156.
Williams, Arthur Hyatt. Cruelty, violence, and murder: Understanding the criminal mind. Jason Aronson, 1998.
Good Man Hard Find," short film, "Black Hearts Bleed Red." http://www. Flannery O'Conner's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Jari Cain Rossi's motion picture "Black Hearts Bleed Red" both address an account involving a dysfunctional American family traveling through a rural scenery and falling victim to a band of ruthless escaped convicts. Rossi's film is an adaptation of the short story, but fails to provide the
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