Dexter Speaking Of Sin Analysis

The hit tv show Dexter is about a blood splatter analyst who works for a Miami police department. The main character being Dexter, uses his job as a blood splatter analyst to locate serial killers near him. Dexter finds local killers so he can put a stop to their killing of innocent people by murdering them. Most viewers of Dexter would probably not think of associating Dexter’s rationale for murder with ideas about sin. In fact, Dexter’s justification for murder portrays ideas about sin presented in texts by R. S. Pine-Coffin and Barbara Brown Taylor.
In one of the earliest episodes of Dexter, he explains his reason for killing in a narration of his thought. Dexter claims that part of his reason for murder is due to an unexplainable desire …show more content…
Dexter’s urge to kill can be perceived as sickness, which he can’t control because he doesn’t even know why he kills. Being that Dexter’s sinning/murdering can be thought of as a sickness, he would not be seen as at fault. Correspondingly, Taylor’s book explains sin as a medical language. According to Taylor, speaking of sin in a medical language is all about sin being a disease that can’t be completely controlled and is based on a no fault theory. Thus, Dexter’s appetite for murder can be seen as illustrating Taylor’s point about the medical language of sin. Nevertheless, further examinations of Dexter’s mentality leads to other examples of portraying …show more content…
Such as, Dexter kills because he feels a necessary urge to do so and chooses to murder serial killers. In other words, Dexter’s actions/sins aren’t fully under his control, but his sins/actions are affected by his decisions. Similarly, Pine-Coffin’s story describes a boy who had an uncontrollable want to sin and why he should be blamed for it. While the story also describes how the boy’s choice lead to him stealing/sinning. In addition, Taylor’s book portrays that sin can be explained by both a legal and medical perspective. For example, the medical language of sin claims that sin is like a sickness and it’s not the individual’s fault because they can’t help it. At the same time, the legal language of sin claims that sin as a crime that the individual is completely responsible for. In essence, the combined idea of why Dexter kills coincides with the combined ideas from Taylor and Pine-Coffin’s