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I read the novel, Justine, and have a question. I thought it was simply the story of an orphan girl who suffered abuse. I was wrong. More than once I felt disgusted. However, I could not stop reading because of how attached I had become with Justine. I wanted to know how her story would end. My question is: was the marquis truly a sick man who enjoyed torture, or a genius who wrote in protest of a corrupt society?

Aeylyeas Ellendeh Torture as a play on the constitution of mankind yes. And first of the provocateurs of Bourgois plattitudes and hypocrisies. Usually it is not ones mi…moreTorture as a play on the constitution of mankind yes. And first of the provocateurs of Bourgois plattitudes and hypocrisies. Usually it is not ones mind or sexual libertinism but what one does in life, he stood up for what he believed, and several times this costed him his freedom, he also did some pretty noble acts, apart from being a little bit perverted. Nobody else would stand up for a corruption of which the condemnation was simply the excuse for so many to do exactly that, be profoundly corrupt. The justification of a metaphysical paradox, the perpetual death and destruction, is only what could make mercy beautiful again, in a world that is but barren death and destruction, under the all soothing preachings of these virtuous and wholesome men and woman. Of course moral relativism is n't without a certain credibility given to it by decadents, he just made it into an artform. How far nature itself could push it. And is n't this truly human beings nature? How frail a superficial touch on nature and human nature is it what we see today in the mainstream and its indignations over even the least shocking brutalities. Perpetually hypocritical in its whole industry of hysteria and its addiction to moralize over the blood, it is, at the same time, drinking itself, with such vigour and greed. he developed a concept of the promiscuity and pervertedness of nature itself, of her violence, and turned it into the perfect example of the will to live of Schopenhauer, that is split and turned against itself, where he says that, the bulldog ant, if you cut it in half, the head will attack the tail. Where others have described utterly vain ethics, he described the pure divine pulsation which everyone tries to confine, it does n't work, everyone is wrong, he is right.
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