An Analysis Of The Devil Figure In Something Wicked This Way Comes By Ray Bradbury

In “Something Wicked this way comes” by Ray Bradbury, Mr. Dark is the villain in the story making him the Devil Figure. He is evil incarnate meaning he is naturally an evil person who is out to get who ever comes in his way. One way Mr. Dark is shown to be a Devil Figure is through his tattoos “you must be the Tattooed Man…no the Illustrated Man” (Bradbury74). He is the Illustrated man owing the fact that every tattoo is meaningful unlike the Tattooed Man. For every person that that scrambles to the carnivals charms, he has tattoos covering his whole body. The tattoos are there to represent the power Mr. Dark has over everybody in the carnival and how he controls them. Mr. Dark also demonstrates how he can control who he wants when “He nodded,