Nature of Evil

When human beings do horrifying things, are they evil? By exploring such popular literature as The Talented Mr. Ripley , Dante''s Inferno , The Turn of the Screw , and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Koehn illustrates that the roots of human violence are not true evil but a symptom of our failure to really know who we are. It is this lack of understanding of ourselves that can lead h...