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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Who says one is good and one is evil? It appears that Jacob has been intent for eons on bringing sets of people in to play out a drama on the island, and for eons it has resulted in, can't recall the exact words, but basically conflict corruption and destruction. And it's clear he doesn't care how many times people are lured there, then begin the corruption and destruction over again.
Seems to me there's something in there about the two sides of agency, expelled from Eden but free to choose your own path. It's like he's replaying the 'Eve and the apple' scenario over and over and over to see if it ever turns out 'right.'
MoF, what I recall of O'Connor's 'Everything that Rises' [which Jacob was reading at Locke's fall] was a strong vein of pushing people to the edge to reveal their core character.
The 'evil' guy OTOH seems to be taking the Rose and Bernard route. Stop messing with people's lives and conniving to bring them here to fight and kill each other, and just enjoy your tropical paradise.
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The reason they resort to fighting and chaos is because the smoke monster manipulates them into doing it. For example, it tried to use the form of Yemi to cause issues for Ecko, but when he refused to react, it killed him. Ben didn't want to kill Jacob, but the smoke monster took the form of Alex and manipulated him into doing it.
A lot of people are saying the island is the Garden of Eden and throughout history God keeps bringing people to the island but the devil (smokey) keeps getting them banished. I don't necessarily buy into that though.