“Black Death” started with the introduction of Old Man Morgan and begins to illustrate Old Man Morgan being a “hoodoo” doctor, casting curses and successfully killing people without getting physically involved. The story Moves on to say Morgan’s most recognizable murder and “masterpiece” was the Beau case. Which starts with Beau Diddely being shown as a wealthy man with a lover whose name is Docia Boger. When Beau decides to leave the town, Docia’s mother was worried Beau would not marry her. Mrs.Boger then confronts Beau just to get lashed at and Docia gets rejected and dumped. Afterwards Beau spreads rumors of Docia being a terrible person. Which results in Docia going into a fit of rage and contacts Morgan. The scene was short, but powerful.
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We can see self-interest everywhere. In Beau not caring for Docia’s feelings and only wanting more. In Docia for not caring for a human beings life, and only wanting revenge for self-appeasing. You can even see self-interest in supporting characters such as the “hoodoo” doctor, Old Man Morgan, where he is only in this malicious life style for self-satisfaction. He has magical powers yet show’s greed when he readily and avidly takes Docia’s money. He willfully killed a fellow “hoodoo” doctor just to prove he was more powerful and to eliminate any competition. Self-Interest is the entire reason why everyone in the story so malefic. Docia’s aspiration were selfish and naïve. She practically set herself up for bad things. The story is brutal but real and Docia unfortunately was way in over her head to stay with a wealthy man who never once shown any signs of wanting to marry.
The conflicts that arose in this story are man vs. man, man vs. society and man vs. himself. With Docia leading in all of these conflicts. In the start of all the problems it was the conflict man vs. man that was in the forefront with Docia and Beau arguing. Beau lashing at Docia with rejection with a condescending attitude made the introduction of Beau’s true personality apparent. Docia’s hunger for revenge only fuels the man vs. man conflictions more and Docia dragging Morgan into the chemistry mixes and concocts a dreadful chemical malefic solution which rapidly led to Diddely’s
We can see self-interest everywhere. In Beau not caring for Docia’s feelings and only wanting more. In Docia for not caring for a human beings life, and only wanting revenge for self-appeasing. You can even see self-interest in supporting characters such as the “hoodoo” doctor, Old Man Morgan, where he is only in this malicious life style for self-satisfaction. He has magical powers yet show’s greed when he readily and avidly takes Docia’s money. He willfully killed a fellow “hoodoo” doctor just to prove he was more powerful and to eliminate any competition. Self-Interest is the entire reason why everyone in the story so malefic. Docia’s aspiration were selfish and naïve. She practically set herself up for bad things. The story is brutal but real and Docia unfortunately was way in over her head to stay with a wealthy man who never once shown any signs of wanting to marry.
The conflicts that arose in this story are man vs. man, man vs. society and man vs. himself. With Docia leading in all of these conflicts. In the start of all the problems it was the conflict man vs. man that was in the forefront with Docia and Beau arguing. Beau lashing at Docia with rejection with a condescending attitude made the introduction of Beau’s true personality apparent. Docia’s hunger for revenge only fuels the man vs. man conflictions more and Docia dragging Morgan into the chemistry mixes and concocts a dreadful chemical malefic solution which rapidly led to Diddely’s