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Since the beginning of time, people have pondered the existence of evil. What makes people laugh at other peoples' mistakes? What makes a little kid relentlessly pick on the outcast? What fuels the hate that people have for each other? Everyone has their indi ....

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.... no less material" (Shakespeare III.1) to Macbeth. Of course Macbeth wasn't the only one who began his reign of evil with selfishness. Jack, in Lord of the Flies also begins tearing the island apart when he becomes extremely selfish. "I'm not going to play any longer...not with you" (Golding 127) is what he said to the group, right before he broke away and formed his own clan, where he was the unchecked ruler, and could perform any task he pleased. One of Jack's other intolerable acts was the tying up and torturing of Wilfred, another boy on the island. Torturing others is the next step in the quest to become evil. "He didn't say what for" was th ....