Nor is the movie as well acted or as complex as "Schindler's List," which examined evil as well as goodness and discovered an ambiguous intimacy between the two.
Similar to the season six episode, "Arcadia", "Chimera" was written as "a suburban parable about perfection" that examined "the evil that lies beneath a prototypical white-bread suburban existence".
A: There are at least four or five answers I could give you, and I fear we would find ourselves wading deep into territory that philosophers who examine good and evil write books about.
However, since an earlier episode, "Hungry", had dealt with similar themes, the writing staff decided to take the conceit in a different direction and examine the "corporate evil that populates the cigarette industry".
It is much easier to incite racial fear than to try to examine the mechanics of evil.
The special, an episode of the channel's "Curiosity" series, aims to examine the nature of evil largely by recreating the infamous Milgram obedience experiment from 50 years ago.
A planned film adaptation of "Lord of the Flies," the 1954 novel that examined the inherent evil of humanity through an island of boys without adult supervision, will have a provocative twist: This time, the island will be full of girls.
A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama, "Chad Deity" uses wrestling and a melting pot of black, white, Puerto Rican and Indian-American characters to examine issues of good versus evil in a world of shifting racial and cultural allegiances.
Singer's shorter novels examine characters variously tempted by evil, such as the brilliant circus magician of The Magician of Lublin, the 17th-century Jewish villagers crazed by messianism in Satan in Goray, and the enslaved Jewish scholar in The Slave.
