Chaplin and Brecht - A Forum on Evil with the Participation of Monsieur Verdoux, Jenny and Mack the Knife

This article deals with the dialogue conducted between evil and social processes. At the core of the arguments Bertold Brecht and Charlie Chaplin convey in their works is the capitalist ethos, which drives social classes ever closer to the brink, a place where we will no longer be able to label their actions as "wicked." The article explores the attempts made by these two artists to free the concept of evil from its capitalist confines, to transform the statement "the murderer is wicked" into a possibility.