“Do you believe in evil, Meg? As a force external to man?” “Like the devil?” “Yes. Or a force that can inhabit people. Turn them into monsters.” “It’s an interesting question. Mostly I take the Jungian view that we create the idea of monsters in order to externalize the bad that potentially lurks within us all, and we call this monster a devil, or beast, so we can examine it objectively, without having to see the beast in our own eyes when we look into the mirror.”
