The Downward Spiral Analysis

The Downward Spiral, talks about Dylan and Eric’s past. They try to find the motive to the killings they committed at Columbine. Dylan was more of the depressive one out of the two. He even went to say “I have always been hated, by everyone and everything…” Dylan had in his mind that nobody liked him at his school. It depressed him very much and it lead to these killings him and Eric committed at Columbine. Dylan was prone to depressive moods a lot. He felt tremendously rejected by everyone They hated the teachers, students, and administrators, that lead them to come up with a master plan to go on a killing spree and murder everybody.

Eric on the other hand, he was considered the psychopath of the two. Eric said very many statements about blame and the responsibility he had on the attacks, noting his frequent changes he had made, and trying to …show more content…
I believe that they was fueled by hatred and depression that the school put them through. They felt mistreated by others and thought they should be the ones treated like Gods. Eric’s psychopathic mind was the cause of him clicking, he even went to his journal to say, “'Isn't America supposed to be the land of the free? How come, if I'm free, I can't deprive a stupid f---ing dumbsh** from his possessions if he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his f---ing van out in plain sight and in the middle of f---ing nowhere on a Frif---ingday night. NATURAL SELECTION. F---er should be shot.” Dylan’s depressive mind, thought he was being mistreated is what made him click. Eric was the one with the mind of a killer and the mind of how to have a killing spree. To me, Eric was the leader and Dylan was the follower for many reasons. The mass murders was fueled by a psychopathic mind and a mind that was depressive, both Dylan and Eric both was in very bad need of help that they never received and I believe that was the cause of the killing spree they unleashed upon