Empathy

The essential question that I would like to discuss is, "What nature of human being would you describe as monstrous?" I answered by saying that the nature of a psychopath is truly monstrous because they lack emotions or remorse. I think the question is thought provoking because what kind of person is truly monstrous, has no good in them, or they are practically a savage. I think this example of a psychopath can be found in Dorian Gray when he kills Basil by savagely slitting his throat. Dorian Gray is a man that can commit any sin and it will not show on his face, he in a moment of passion kills Basil. Basil was only trying to save Dorain from his sins and in return was killed. I think Dorian's nature in that moment was monstrous but unlike a psychopath he does have remorse about killing Basil later. Dorian earlier in the literature is to blame for Sybil's suicide but through the detached words of Lord Henry he feels less remorse about her suicide. I think the lack of empathy that Dorian and Lord Henry both show is a quality that is truly monstrous. In the show Vampire Diaries there is a witch named Kai and he is part of the Gemini Coven. When he was an adolescent he killed several of his brothers and sisters in an attempt to kill the second set of twins to someday rule the coven. His sister and him were the first set but Kai could only absorb magic he didn't have his own. Fast forward to the present day time in the show and his brother from the second set of twins forced him to merge with him instead of his rightful merging twin. Kai wins and the other twin dies but becomes a part of Kai. When Kai killed his brothers and sisters and was banished to a prison world all those years, he never felt remorse about what he had done but instead planned to get out and then kill everyone in his coven. However when he merged with his brother he also gained empathy from him. He begins to care deeply about others and tries to apologize to his sister that lost her twin and then to Bonnie who he had emotionally harmed. Kai was a psychopath but then he gains empathy and remorse from his brother. I strongly believe that the lack of empathy in the nature of a human being is monstrous.