>Evan Rosenfield wrote:
>
>Isn't an evil hero impossible?

Literature and film are filled with evil heroes, aren't they - the problem
for Milton, as for others, was that the devil was so much more attractive
than the good.  Isn't the answer to this that humans respond more to
vitality than morality?  In other words, exemplifying the life force seems
to carry much greater weight than being an exemplary human being. In modern
civilisation we are so used to defining ourselves as moral citizens that we
forget or are totally unconscious of more innate instincts.  Or perhaps
it's an unconscious realisation that good and evil are very dubious
concepts...

Regards
JD
Kyoto

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