![]() (That’s a neat twist.) More divergences from the original myth come when the younger brother thanks the elder for freeing him from the odious service of God by killing him, and the reason adduced for the elder killing the younger was hatred of self. In Seishin’s version of the Cain and Abel myth, the elder brother still kills the younger, but the younger rises as a vampire to haunt the elder. In my prior article, I argued that Seishin is like the scop in Beowulf. It’s spoilers galore from here on, but the way. But, Seishin’s treatment of the Cain and Abel myth did make me worry about the author’s intent. It certainly avoids the diabolic imagination, despite featuring scenes of pure horror, and the events serve to test the viewer’s ability to make moral decisions amidst attempts to make situations less black and white than they are. Nothing so sums up post-modernism as the phrase “evil rocks.” Shiki contains sections which convey the idea “Grendel rocks,” but I think that the anime ultimately undermines any such ideas. A professor of Hillsdale College wrote “Evil rocks” on the board. Seeing which, Professor Jackson reacted by saying, “Grendel rocks! Seriously? Don’t you know what Grendel means? Evil. Once, he walked into a classroom to find that another professor had written “Grendel rocks” on the board. ![]() ![]() Before I begin this article, I should like to relate an amusing story with Professor Justin Jackson, whom I mentioned in my prior post. ![]()
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