Catholicism heavily influenced Flannery O’Conner, the writer of A Good Man Is Hard To Find, as she once wrote in a …show more content…
In the august of this year, an Islamist extremist group called ISIS released a YouTube video showing the decapitation of a US journalist, missing in Syria since 2012. ISIS remains notorious for its killings of dozens and people, crucifixion and carrying out mass executions. It’s extremely difficult to fathom how such chaotic evil exists and guides humans to commit such acts of genocide. Moral codes cannot define such actions, then again they still are the sole roots of this type of evil. People who kill in the name of religion have their morals consumed by chaotic evil. Their justification of right and wrong happens to be different from the rest of the world because their consciousness stays dead.
Chaotic evil does not let you become aware of your own consciousness much alike the Misfit, who justifies his actions by his undeveloped philosophies and his, remarks such as “the crimes don’t matter”. The moral code of the Grandmother falls apart the moment it’s challenged by the Misfit. In a world that encompasses different societies, each with their own morals and codes, chaotic evil remains its textbook