Inherent
Does everyone contain inherent good and evil or do we learn evil conversely do we learn goodness? Let us suppose that everyone is subject to inherent duality, yet does this duality reside in good and evil or what we perceive to be so? What is evil? Is evil terrible hatred and violence or is it how we define our animalistic side, that which resides for survival? Then how would we define good? Is it civilization, love, abstract intelligence or spirituality? If evil is instinctual survival then is it love we learn? Then again perhaps its all a matter of perspective in a fight for survival is it our inherent humanity and the accompanying morals that become evil and our nemesis. What is the baser need and inclination of mankind do we derive our supposed superiority from animals due to the distance placed between survival and being or are we always under the inherent reign of survival tendencies that lie barely disguised beneath the surface? Instead of going for the kill in a literal sense do we instead apply this tendency to usurping others in the work, scholastic or social environments? THIS IS WHY I LOVE PI. The whole book is the balance and battle between the two. If your in my english class you probably already know that I get very, lets say expressive when it comes to this matter, but really it IS Pi. So now let me pose a question, which dominates Pi? Do they exist in tandem, Richard Parker being his animalistic side and Pi being his spiritual side? Isn't it interesting that Pi is both alpha AND omega just as on the boat he tames his animalistic side (alpha) and yet lets himself become ruled by instinct (omega)? Is Richard Parker an aspect of Pi, or is he truly a tiger and Pi exists as a fellow animal with Richard Parker? In which version is Pi more animalistic, is Pi's spiritual side always present and conversely is his instinctual side always present? How exactly would one define Pi's God or does he have Gods, to him is each religion a different facet of (a) God or does he believe they're the same? Anyways feel free to input or tell me I'm crazy, but I'm just curious and I doubt if we'll examine this in it's entirety in class.