'Moral Values Depicted In The Tumor Doubled'
The folk tale known as The Tumor Doubled aims to influence our understanding of moral values, like many other folk tales. In this tale specifically, it is implied that a negative intentionally leads to negative consequences; likewise, good intentions lead to positive consequences. The folk tale shows the relationship between intentions and consequences by illustrating two priests. The first priest, by mere chance, ends up sleeping at a shin, where many demons gather for drinking and dancing. The priest saw the demons and wished to dance and have a jolly good time with them. At dawn, the demons, in an effort to guarantee the priests return for more fun dancing, took with them a tumor he had been plagued with on his eye. The demons believed that
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For example, in this story the second priest has ill intentions while performing actions that are nearly identical to the first priest; the second priest believes he had overdone the ‘imitation” (p.63). Concequently, The second priest who went to dancing with ill intent received a punishment; however, this punishment was not orchestrated purposefully by the demons. The demons only intention was to return what they said would keep as a pledge. To the demons, the punishment that the second priest faced was merely a honouring of an agreement made antecedent. The spiritual world in this folk tale and the rules and laws this world contains facilitated both the punishment and the reward. The thing that decides whether an action is moral or immoral does not depend solely on the will of the inhabitants of the spirit world. That is to say since there does exist circumstances in which action in the spirit world lead to unintentional punishments and rewards we can say that there is something else that decides if something is proper or not. The spirit world reinforces the idea of proper behaviour by the attribution of punishments and rewards that at least partly exist outside the discretion of its
For example, in this story the second priest has ill intentions while performing actions that are nearly identical to the first priest; the second priest believes he had overdone the ‘imitation” (p.63). Concequently, The second priest who went to dancing with ill intent received a punishment; however, this punishment was not orchestrated purposefully by the demons. The demons only intention was to return what they said would keep as a pledge. To the demons, the punishment that the second priest faced was merely a honouring of an agreement made antecedent. The spiritual world in this folk tale and the rules and laws this world contains facilitated both the punishment and the reward. The thing that decides whether an action is moral or immoral does not depend solely on the will of the inhabitants of the spirit world. That is to say since there does exist circumstances in which action in the spirit world lead to unintentional punishments and rewards we can say that there is something else that decides if something is proper or not. The spirit world reinforces the idea of proper behaviour by the attribution of punishments and rewards that at least partly exist outside the discretion of its