A story can gratify whether good or evil prevails. It cannot satisfy unless goodness prevails. This is not a matter of preference. It is a spiritual fact. Those who favor the triumph of evil are doomed to be dissatisfied. Their instant gratifications wane to numbness.
It is commonly assumed that goodness is a lack of evil: People are “good” unless they “do” this or that, blah, blah, blah. The assumption is untrue.
Evil is a lack of goodness: People are evil unless they do what is right of their own volition, no matter what. They must realize their own potential by their own efforts.
Every nonentity is evil. Their very insignificance is a sin. They deserve to die for no other reason than they do not deserve to live. Their lives are in vain, squandered by them.
The expendable characters in fiction are true to life. They are most people. You are probably one of them. You have my sympathies.. but not really.
People think good and evil come down to a list of do's and don'ts. As long as they don't do the wrong thing, then everything will be fine. Actually caring is something very few care to do.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. People love the idea that good and evil are according to rules because they can play on semantics to do evil.
DeleteLying in fiction is giving significance to the nonentities. True to life is showing the lack that these entities are. This satisfaction will always ring true.
ReplyDeleteYes, Even the worthless are uninspired by the glorification of the worthless.
DeleteThe worst aspects of the world come from people just not caring enough to do or say anything.
ReplyDeleteThey are dead within and live accordingly.
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