Professor Read delves into the nature of evil in The Monk by Matthew Lewis. What is it about evil that draws us to it? Why would a good person commit horrific acts of violence? Is anyone safe from evil? Join Professor Read as he discusses these questions and tries to understand why those deemed good people fall to evil's wicked spell. For this episode, the following sources were used: Lewis, M. G., et al. The Monk. Oxford University Press, 2016. ; WATKINS, DANIEL P. “SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN MATTHEW LEWIS'S ‘THE MONK.’” Studies in the Novel, vol. 18, no. 2, 1986, pp. 115–124. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29532407. Accessed 17 May 2020.