It has often been said that time heals all wounds. Although I believe this statement to be true, I find it incomplete. Time may heal, but it never forgets. This fact is apparent in our literature, both classical and modern. It is an oddity of the human condition: we are fascinated by evil and wrongdoing. History has forgotten all too many heroes, but not one villain. In this way, we define ourselves and speak the …showed first 75 words of 1636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1636 total…primal nature. Instead, we choose to experience them vicariously through the words and stories of others. Nature, through evolution, has granted us cognitive thought and the opposable thumb, but has not entirely done away with some of our “less appealing” primal characteristics, namely bloodlust. For all our morality, progress, and advancement, we as a species cannot deny the fundamentals of our nature. We can, however, redirect some of them into less detrimental forms of expression.