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Evil Empire

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Evil Empire
“The devil is in all of you!” At least that’s what heavy metal vocalist Rob Zombie
believes about the people of America. Although some may believe that he himself is a
messenger of the devil, Rob may be on the right track. Recent events that occurred in
New York define what is it is to be truly evil. Questions start to emerge in our minds such
as, “Why would someone do something like that?” “What posses someone to fly a plane
into a building killing thousands?” “Are we really capable of being that evil?”
Unfortunately, the proof is blinding. We are in deed capable of such malicious acts and
will, have, go through with them. The answer to why we act in such a way is in it self a
very difficult question to be defined. No one will ever know exactly why, but few have
their theories.
Thomas Wolfe is one of those men who have come up with the metaphoric reason
to the simple, yet complex question, “Why?” By examining poems such as “The Lamb”
and “The Tyger,” Wolfe creates his own vision of evil by representing it in the real world.
Although maybe not totally politically correct by using a black man to be this household of
evil innocence, Wolfe enhances his idea by symbolically blackening the evil, even if it’s
only skin deep. Darkness is the bearer of evil in a white man’s world. Poor Dick, after
having lived in such a world of racism and a sort of post slavery state of mind, he turns to
the good book to keep his emotions from becoming to temperamental. But one can only
repress such malice behavior for so long before they snap. In the case of Dick Prosser, his
time to snap has come. After being semi-servant of Shepperton’s, and constantly being
told to do or not to do things, Dick obtains a rifle and stores it in his quarters until
“Christmas time.” The townspeople all seem to favor Dick with kindness, and would
never expect him to act in any sort of...

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