Blood Meridian

Main Ideas

• Cruelty and violence as an inherent part of human nature
• The senselessness and chaos of war
• The struggle between man and nature
• Fatalism and the inevitability of fate
• Moral ambiguity and the absence of clear boundaries between good and evil
• The influence of the environment on personality development
• Existential emptiness and the search for the meaning of life
• Dehumanization and the loss of humanity in the face of extreme violence