10 icons of evil

The Greek poet Hesiod, who lived almost three thousand years, told us that evil has come to Earth along with his first wife. These days, he would be accused of sexist to associate the world's ills to the female figure, but it was thanks to Hesiod one of the most interesting episodes in Greek mythology was immortalized and came to us. The woman was named Pandora and she carried a box given by Zeus, the chief of all the gods of Olympus, with the recommendation that did not open.

Of course, Zeus knew that Pandora would not resist their own curiosity and open as she did not think inside the box the god of gods had stored all the ills of the world. It was a revenge that the boss of the deities of Olympus devised against the Titan Prometheus, because he stole fire from heaven and given to men so that they dominate nature. Since Pandora's box was opened, the evil spread among us and does not seem to want to leave. The following pages to know what are ten of the most famous symbols of evil of all time in the real world and the imaginary.

Snake

In Greek mythology, was barely inside the Pandora's box, as in Judeo-Christian he first appears in the form of a serpent. In the Old Testament in the Book of Genesis "is a serpent that tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit with Adam, which causes the expulsion of both of Paradise. The association of the snake with evil dating back to the first civilizations in the Middle East. Their neighbors and enemies of the tribes of Israel represent their deities in the form of a serpent, and the Bible may have reflected the association between enemies (Satan in Hebrew means one who lie in wait, the enemy, the enemy) and the serpent. Moreover, since the snake was also a symbol of wisdom in many cultures and biblical metaphor may be a reference to this: the fact that the snake would have enabled Adam and Eve knew good and evil. Even metaphorically responsible for giving the free will to men, the serpent remains one of the most powerful symbols of evil in many cultures.

666

The number 666 is known as the number of the beast, since the translations of the Bible showed that St. John the Evangelist in the Book of Revelation "quotes this number as an identification of the Antichrist. John wrote those texts, incorporated into the New Testament in an apocalyptic time of persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire. As he cites the Beast - originally a fabulous animal and terrible - appear in the form of a man many felt that the number 666 referred to the Roman emperor Nero, at the time responsible for hunting down Christians. Recent studies show that the number mentioned by John the Baptist was actually the 616 and that the translation process have been mistakenly changed to 666. The odd thing is that the Book of Revelation "is 66. Of the Bible and quote the number of the Beast is the first time in verse 18 (which is the sum of 6 +6 +6).

Stalinism

Stalinism has become synonymous with evil for many for ideological reasons. Especially in the running to win hearts and minds during the Cold War. But it was not an "evil" that only existed in the field of ideas. The government of Joseph Stalin at the head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was actually full of wickedness. The purges that he promoted the Communist Party, killing and exiling rivals, the persecution of political dissidents and prisoners sent to labor camps, the Gulags, the process of forced collectivization of agriculture and the totalitarian system of repression are some examples of the canister evils that Stalin used to rule, as reported by his successor Nikita Krushcev during the 20. Congress of the Communist Party in 1956. The evil that emerged from the Stalinist totalitarianism inspired George Orwell to write two of the greatest classics on the tyranny of world literature: "1984" and "Animal Farm". But ironically the Satline helped the world to get rid of another "evil empire".


Nazism

The rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany in the years 1920/1930 was fueled by deteriorating economic and social conditions of the country after the First World War. But it was also the result of his ability as a leader of the masses and the use of evil as a political and propaganda in a way never before done in history. Ahead of the Nazis gathered in the National Socialist German Workers' Hitler pursued policies of pure cruelty on the grounds of preserving the purity and superiority of the Aryan race. Among them were using Jews as scapegoats, practicing one of the greatest genocides in history and genetic experiments carried out atrocious. There was also a 2. World War II, the most bloodthirsty of all time. The Nazis soon became a sort of religion of evil with faithful followers in various parts of the world.

McCarthyism

Evil can be exercised in different ways. Even from a Senate committee in a democratic country. The McCarthy is one of the biggest evidence of that. In 50 years, the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy took advantage of the fear that took care of Americans to Communism during the Cold War, to deploy one of the most vicious campaign of persecution against citizens put in place a liberal democracy. McCarthy started publicizing a list of alleged subversives working for the U.S. government. Then the chase was extended to scientists, artists, soldiers and intellectuals, a true "witch hunt". Usually without evidence or proof that these people were spying for the Communist government or plotting against the U.S. government, the McCarthy subjected to interrogations conducted in the Senate, violating their civil rights and causing a movement of hysterical persecution that was called McCarthyism.

Chucky

The doll Chucky is evil in the form of toy. His career as one of the greatest icons of evil began in the first film in the series "Child's Play" ( "Child's Play", directed Tom Holland, 1988). In it, the serial killer Charles Lee Ray is mortally wounded during a police pursuit, but before dying takes refuge in a toy store and a voodoo ritual, transfers his soul just for a nice doll line "Good Guys". From there, the evil doll becomes the incarnation of evil and will destroys the lives of the little boy Andy Barclay, who had the chance to win it as a birthday present. In a world full of Barbies and Kens, Chucky, the killer toy, was so successful that the image of bizarre puppet carrying a knife or scissors giant became one of the icons of very bad characters.

Sauron

Evil is not something that exists only on this earth. In another, the Middle-earth, central place of adventures narrated in "The Lord of the Rings", a work written by J. R. R. Tolkien and transformed into award-winning film director Peter Jackson, evil has name and address: it is in Mordor, a land populated by vicious creatures like trolls, orcs and wargs and called Sauron, the supreme being of evil. Sauron is the "Lord of the Rings," a creature of the beginning of time, a spirit that descended into the realm that is Middle-earth, according to JRR Tolkien, to help create it. With the defeat of his master had to live in a kind of exile and during that period he developed his taste for evil, becoming a spirit of hatred and governing on the basis of terror. Thanks to the work of Tolkien and the films of the famous Jackson Eye of Sauron that appears on the Mount Doom is one of the newest and most powerful icons of evil to haunt our imagination.

Darth Vader

He is not only one of the greatest villains in movie history as it is also one of the greatest symbols of the evil empire. He looked like a good child, but life had preached parts which had become hopelessly the villain of villains, the most popular film series of science fiction. Darth Vader is the menacing leader of the Empire in the saga of "Star Wars" ( "Star Wars"). Armed with a powerful lightsaber, telekinetic powers and a higher intelligence, protected by a helmet of black metal, out of which we hear the sound of a mechanical breath frightening, Darth Vader is the personification of evil, the dark side, which dominates the universe. The most amazing is that all evil emerged precisely because of the tragic end of a love affair of young Vader. Paradoxically, the greatest icon of the evil empire, the Dark Lord of the Sith is the result of several fruitless searches for love.

Smoke Monster

He is an entity, it seems, very evil that inhabits a very strange island, where they are parallel universes and time travel happen. In the mythology of the television series "Lost," it has been described as a kind of guardian of the island and sometimes took on human form, but in any of its versions it is always doing something bad. His first appearance came accompanied by a frightening sound of metal, then found that he was capable of causing intense electrical activity and a powerful wind heralding his arrival. The "smoke monster" is one of the biggest mysteries among the several that exist in "Lost." He seems to be one of the most powerful and intriguing manifestations of evil portrayed in fiction beginning of this new millennium. The worst thing is that he wants at any cost to leave the island and return "home". If he succeeds, the only thing that will remain will be gray circles around us to keep the monster in the take.

Satan

He is undoubtedly the champion of champions in terms of evil. A few millennia the figure of an angel fallen light-bearer of heaven, having rebelled against God before the creation of the earth, haunts many people around the world. Since biblical times, we know that Satan or the Devil, is the essence of evil. Satan, the king of kings of evil, built his own kingdom, called Hell, where does evil hanging over humanity. There are many versions among theologians that God, the Almighty, would have allowed Satan to survive. Some believe that this is part of the Divine plan to be evil in tempting and tantalizing. The belief that evil is evil among us has resulted in some of the darkest episodes of history, as the witch hunts in Salem and the Inquisition. Moments that should have made the greatest icon of evil and be pleased with humans.