blog post 2

Peter Brooks describes moral occult as, "that ethics are now determined, not by virtue but by terror. Her argument (about another author) images a world in which God exists still but, no longer as holy mystery . . . "God" has become an interdiction, a primitive force in nature that strikes fear in men's hearts but does not move them to allegiance and worship (Brooks, 18)." This type of scenario is seen in the television series, The Blacklist, where a man, Raymond Redington, an international criminal finds out that his long lost daughter is working for the FBI. he turns himself in and demand that he will only speak to her, Elizabeth Keen, who doesn't know that he is her father at the time. slowly, one by one, Redington uses the FBI to find other international criminals, which the government was not aware of initially. he calls this list of criminals, the "blacklist". Now eve though Redington is no rich man, he still manages to always wear the best of clothing, and live in the most luxurious of homes. He steals and kills, with no remorse and even makes jokes about his killings. the moral occult comes in this show because Redington claims to be a Christian and goes to an abandoned church every Sunday. Redington, although turns himself in to the FBI, ends up becoming a source for them and allows them to find xome of the most disgusting, brutal criminals to ever live. as Raymond Redington continues to work with the government agency, he reveals criminals one by one, but he never gives his "captors" all the information that they need to catch the criminal that he mentions. through his "games" he helps the FBI rid he world of terrible people who Redington feels the need to remove.