Wickedness: How Do People Become Evil?

Big Question: How do people become evil?

“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” Last summer I went to go see the musical Wicked. This question was asked at the beginning of the musical but it never gave a direct answer. I believe that wickedness is thrust upon people whether it be from an illness or from certain tragedies they have faced. In the musical there is basically just a misunderstanding between the townspeople and the “wicked” witch. She was actually the hero but the villain had the power of media. In other cases in society such as serial killers. Statistics show that most either have had a tragedy during their younger ages or they have an illness of the brain.

SPOILERS. Since Fate of Ten by Pittacus
She was wounded in battle while protecting Six while she tried to kill Setrakus Ra. Sarah most likely won’t make it.

From reading my book The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore I think I know a little bit more about the answer to the question of how people become evil. “I’m shocked by how normal he seems, a young guy sitting on the beach, staring glumly at a girl he likes. Where did it all go so wrong?” At this part in my book it is having a flashback to a scene from the villain's past. At this moment he seems so normal that it is odd how sinister he became. The book is questioning how people become evil too.

”What is Setrakus working on?” She takes a deep breath. “It’s a dig. Out in the mountains. I shouldn’t- I don’t know how exactly to explain it. What he does out there… he says he does it for me, Pittacus. Like it’s a gift.” Celwe’s voice catches. There are tears in her eyes. “But I don’t want it.” This scene in the book is a conversation between the villain’s wife and his childhood best friend. Both of them have noticed the change in character since Setrakus was younger from now. Now he is obsessed with this secret project that supposed to be a gift for Celwe. I believe that the book is saying that love is a reason we become evil. The saying love makes us do crazy things is true and while that saying is mostly used for people acting nervous around a crush, it is also being used here for a darker purpose. It is saying that Setrakus is doing a lot of bad things to give a gift to his wife because of love, but it’s a gift that she doesn’t even want. And now that Celwe is dead he is doing it for his only living relative, his granddaughter, so that she can rule over the new planet, Earth. But not only does she not want this it will most likely kill her in the