Henry IV and Big Question

I think this question could relate to Hal at the beginning of the play pretty well. It could be one of the reasons he chooses to spend his youth among Falstaff and the pub crawlers. He knows they are evil people and he must one day become king and break all ties with them; he says, "I know you all, and will awhile uphold/ the unyoked humor of your idleness./ Yet herein I will imitate the sun,/ Who doth permit the base contagious clouds/ To smother up his beauty from the world,/ That, when he please again to be himself,/ Being wanted, he may be more wondered at/ By breaking through the foul and ugly mists/Of vapors that did seem to strangle him" (Act I, scene 2, lines 202-210). Hal’s motivation for spending time with these wrongdoers is that once he does decide to be the “good son”, he will look all the more splendid when he triumphantly returns to his father. Perhaps he became tired of the boring life he lived in the royal court and wanted to spend some time having fun. It could have been solely to make his father appreciate him: a struggle for attention. Either way, Hal does seem to enjoy himself with Falstaff and crew.

Oedipus and Big Question

My question was why is evil so attractive.

This could relate to Oedipus through the way that he blamed people for his own mistakes. For example, he blames Kreon for his father's death and gets angry at Tyresius when the blind seer tells him the truth. In this instance, evil was attractive to him because he could not look inside himself and see his own guilt.

Why is Evil so Attractive?

This question intrigues me because I think there is a different attraction for each person: money, power, etc. I think it would be interesting to explore/contrast someone who kills someone for money versus someone who kills a person for the sake of enjoyment. Is the motivation for these two different scenarios essentially the same? Where does evil come from? If it is inside of us, what awakens it? Is evil the "easy way out"? What are the temptations in our lives? Is revenge necessarily bad in all contexts? There is definitely something alluring about being "bad", rebelling, and disobeying rules for me and I often wonder if it is because I have been forced to be "good" my whole life.