Terrorism In The Secret Agent And The Terrorist

Through the course we analyzed and examined various books, movies, and topics in relation to terrorism over time. One thing most fascinating are the terrorists themselves. What motivates them to do such atrocity acts? Why do terrorists go to great lengths into delivering chaos across the globe? Terrorism isn’t a regional epidemic across history, but looked as a generational phenomenon in many countries and cultures. In the research done we will look at and try to figure out some answers for these questions and also develop a short story in inspiration from the research we have discovered and found. Two books covered, The Secret Agent and The Terrorist, really drives the point on how similar these main chaotic characters and individuals are. In The Secret Agent - one anarchists in particular – The Professor – you get a sense of how mad this fictional character is. He’s hell bent on showing some sort of dominance over the culture he resides in. He goes to great lengths in proving on how he is superior, rather it be trying to set up suicide mission for someone else or simply strapping a bomb to himself. In the novel you get the sense that The Professor …show more content…
It’s clearly understandable that many groups and organizations masquerade as sanctified, legitimate organizations – i.e. the Westboro Baptist Church picket’s funerals because they don’t agree with certain lifestyle also is a form of terrorism. From various sites and books read there’s no one fit bill when it comes to analyzing terrorist or chaotic individuals, but rather the setting, time and place. All the interviews done in trying to pick brains of former radicals should be outsource in trying to build and better committed region. When you have governments continually being toppled, instability in finances and income, this leads to desperate individuals become indoctrinated leading to a life of