The following inferences may be made from the play concerning the nature of evil:
1. Exists absolutely, independently of human perception, recognition, or
acknowledgment.
2. Is personal, spiritual and hierarchical
3. Seeks human agency for expression, but must
have human choice to gain human agency
4. Operates through lies and deception,
ultimately deceiving and betraying the human agent
5. Leads to destruction, defilement, and remorse
6. Is limited by a greater good and by human
choice
7. Is able to control nature on limited scale
8. Is able to affect interpersonal attraction
and damage
9. Is unable to create anything; although, it
imitates creation by perverting what has already been created
10. Respects nothing but self or coercive power
and control—ultimately, only self prevails (the author of evil itself)—selfish,
autocratic, narcissistic
11. An evil act by an individual can produce evil
consequences for innocent others—especially those under the authority of the
actor (for example, a king)
12. Evil tends towards excess, is over-indulgent—mostly
to the detriment of the agent—accelerates and intensifies beyond rational/
beneficial boundaries
13. Unable to give without some form of personal
return or benefit
14. Functions most effectively in covert
(darkness)
15. Associated with pain, despair, unfulfillment,
anger and death
16. Antithetical to light, goodness, purity,
kindness, godliness
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