What is it about evil that makes it so appealing in the movies, like Anakin going to the dark side? Why is it that a character who was good turns evil? Can a person resist the call for evil, even for something world-changing? These questions even pose themselves in literature as in The Picture of Dorian Grey, Dorian chose to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth, and he spends his youth degrading himself to murder, blackmail, and drugs. In Faustus, Dr. Faust sells his soul for knowledge, knowledge he'd use to conquer the world. Faust, a respectable man, sells his soul to Lucifer, the embodiment of evil, it isn't more of a role reversal than that. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll gives up his humanity because he enjoyed the reckless murderous beast of a form that was Mr. Hyde. This is relevant today because everyday people are succumbing to evil, there are murderers, rapists, and slave traffickers who all started as an innocent people, even Hitler was considered an innocent being at some point.
In my opinion people aren't born evil, it's the events and choices that take place in their lives which turn them into evil beings. It's also in my opinion that people who were once evil can change. For example, Frank Abagnale Jr. was a famous check-forger and impostor who after a prison sentence turned his life around and became a consultant for the FBI and helped them catch forgers much like himself. To me evil is a path, anyone can take it, but the longer you stay on it the harder it is to get off, and that's why characters like Dorian Grey, Faust, and Jekyll didn't have a happy ending.
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