Devil

Goodman Brown has no Faith The devil will try to get everyone’s soul and he will do it in a unexpected way because that way you will not see it coming and it is harder for you to say no. Every person has good in them too, but they will have to battle with the conflicts between right and wrong. In “Young Goodman Brown” Goodman Brown changed his faith and religious life when he enters the woods and the devil manipulates him to change his beliefs. There is good and evil in every person and it makes…

Skyelar McQuillar Honors Comp & Lit 3A November 4, 2016 Is Being Famous a Faustian Bargain? In the play ‘Faustus’, the main character, Doctor Faustus made a deal with devil. Faustus was very knowledgeable but he wanted more, he wanted black magic. In order to get that he sold his soul to devil for 24 years in return for Mephastophilis as his servant. Faustus signs the contract in his blood and has second thoughts on what he just did. Faustus begins to learn new spells and uses his gift as…

Title Rae Spoon’s song “God Was on Your Shoulders” is a cohesive narrative illustrating the major parental relationships in the narrator’s life. Specifically, the effect religion had on shaping said relationships. Throughout the narrator’s life, the persons that are supposed to love and support them abuse and neglect them under the banner of religious righteousness. Though seeming rather personal “God Was on Your Shoulders” directly reflects on religion as a personal justification for abusive…

own demonic realm. Yet on the other, God had ultimate control over the world, including Satan and his forces of evil; to argue otherwise was to adopt a dualist position and fall into the heresy of Manicheanism. Hence, in Protestant ideology, the Devil, and thus the witch, could only carry out evil acts because God allowed them to, as He ultimately “rule[d] ouer Deuils…[and]…his instruments, Witches and Sorcerers”. That the witch could go no further than God’s command was commonly proved by…

Whether he was here in the beginning is not for me to say. But let me ask this, which is more pleasing to the Devil - mercy filling our hearts and the lives of those accused saved, and their hearts brought back to God, or the senseless hanging of those who may have indeed loved God, and were simply caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? I beg you, please the Devil no more, and turn your hearts up to God. She has done no wrong. There is no proof. Elizabeth has no feeling of guilt, she…

Many view Satan as an abstract concept, but what is not realized is that Satan is real and that he wants our human souls. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a novel of thirty-one letters, written from an experienced devil, Screwtape, to his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood. In these letters, Screwtape suggests various ways Wormwood can distract his “patient”, specifically a middle aged male, from his faith in God. Screwtape's instructions include tempting the patient to rely on realistic…

Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter helps to construct the novel through his pursuit of evil. His name, physical appearance, and his actions show his negative intentions for Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale. His character is portrayed as an entity of the devil, who works toward the main goal of exposing Dimmesdale. Chillingworth is Hester’s husband, who she had planned to leave England and start a new life in Boston with. Hester and him are a part of the many people who emigrated from Europe for…

The act of commenting on written works is not limited to written commentary. In his engraving series Illustrations of the Book of Job, William Blake visually implements his varied interpretations of the Book of Job. He links the story to the greater Christian Biblical canon by adding verses from St. Paul’s Epistles to the Corinthians. In doing so, he condemns the Job’s comforters as blatantly evil rather than mislead. Additionally, he depicts Elihu as an ignored and inessential in order to…

the truth. His mission appears to be to seek the true face of God. This is demonstrated when he asks the witch who is to be burned, to show him the devil. In a sense, this shows the obvious connection between the two. A possible theory might be that they are one in the same. He appeared to believe that the two would be connected. Thus, if he met the devil, he would know more about god. The Squire Johns, appears to deem himself enlightened. He is not inclined to the sentiments about God and…

Alfred Pennysworth, butler of Batman once said “some men just want to watch the world burn” in reference to Batman’s villain, the Joker. A similarly destructive attitude is festered in the antagonist; Iago of Shakespeare’s play Othello. Iago is motivated by an undeserved hate toward the protagonist, Othello, which leads to chaos and sparks a classic Shakespearean tragedy. Throughout the play, Iago allows jealous suspicion and anger to fuel a hate for the Othello. From Iago’s perspective, he…