A question that has been asked since the beginning of time, can a man be purely evil? Several famous figures have only made the question expand, due to their acts of terror upon mankind. Recent figures such as Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, along with a past historical individual, Elizabeth Bathory, lead us to believe there are people born with an evil filled soul. However, all of these ghastly personalities had to have families and loved ones that saw the true person inside of them. After speculation of these four figures, it can be concluded that although a person may commit countless, horrific acts, they can still have good in their hearts. The mere idea of evil stems from the Bible and a Scottish philosopher David Hume’s critical statement,
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Dating back to the 1600s, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary thought to believe that painting human blood, enough to encompass her body, would keep her feeling and looking young. The need of human blood obviously came with consequences to many unlucky people, though, she built torture chambers in her castle and would do excruciatingly torturous acts, mostly to fellow servants and young girls. She desired the blood of youthful and alluring girls, to make her appear and feel similar to them. Bathory married Count Nadady who ¨...participated in his wife’s cruelties, he may have also restrained her impulses¨ (History). This leads us to question if she held back her desire to torture for the sake of her husband. Possibly proving she can be somewhat of a decent person. With her husband, she proceeded to have a total of eight children, four boys and four girls; one would think that her large number of children led her to assume the motherly role and pausing her agonizing acts to tend to the children. It is especially clear Elizabeth Bathory had a mental disorder that was able to control her to the point of torturing innocent girls of her kingdom; however, her restraint of the use of her torture chamber due to her husband, along with her large family can lead one to believe that Bathory had a full heart, but allowed a mental disorder take over her life and her
Dating back to the 1600s, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary thought to believe that painting human blood, enough to encompass her body, would keep her feeling and looking young. The need of human blood obviously came with consequences to many unlucky people, though, she built torture chambers in her castle and would do excruciatingly torturous acts, mostly to fellow servants and young girls. She desired the blood of youthful and alluring girls, to make her appear and feel similar to them. Bathory married Count Nadady who ¨...participated in his wife’s cruelties, he may have also restrained her impulses¨ (History). This leads us to question if she held back her desire to torture for the sake of her husband. Possibly proving she can be somewhat of a decent person. With her husband, she proceeded to have a total of eight children, four boys and four girls; one would think that her large number of children led her to assume the motherly role and pausing her agonizing acts to tend to the children. It is especially clear Elizabeth Bathory had a mental disorder that was able to control her to the point of torturing innocent girls of her kingdom; however, her restraint of the use of her torture chamber due to her husband, along with her large family can lead one to believe that Bathory had a full heart, but allowed a mental disorder take over her life and her