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Washington Irving is an author that is known for his unique way of delivering messages to the reader. He primarily gives a strong signal to his audience in the short story called, "The Devil and Tom Walker." Through this short story, he expresses the value of life through a character by the name of Tom Walker. Throughout the story, it is said multiple times that Tom and his wife have an extremely miserable life together and that they are a lower class, slipshod type of family. Irving talks…

until Ruth learns that he has killed a man, his father, and she throws him out but, first he asks to hear her story of why she is so filled with guilt and why he is not allowed to love her and be her husband. When Ruth finally allows John to stay the devil finds her and say it is time for her to go with him. She meets him where she danced as a little girl in Salem and the ghosts of those that were killed…

Goodman Brown replied that he still want to return to the village, a old woman name Goody Cloyse, the respect woman from the village, came. Goodman Brown hided from her because he’s embarrassed to be seen with the man. Goody identifies the man as the devil and told him that he is witch, on her way to the evil forest ceremony. After, the man gives Goodman Brown his staff to transport to the ceremony if he changes his mind of going back for Faith’s sake. He soon saw the minister of the church…

Do you ever feel the urge to listen to that little voice in the back of your head to achieve something bad? Do you ever feel like someone, or something, is yearning you to take that wrong step in your righteous path to life? That breath on the back of your neck twisting your mind to make that mistake and sin? This specific someone, that voice in your head, that breath can be justified as our Father of Lies we know as Satan. Now, you may know Satan from the many cartoons and comics. You know, the…

anguish on an enemy, these things are evil; and, although venial in a slave, are not to be forgiven in a tyrant; although redeemed by much that ennobles his defeat in one subdued, are marked by all that dishonors his conquest in the victor. Milton's Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible…

A possible source is Revelation 8:7: “So the first Angel blew the trumpet, and there was hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast into the earth.” Moreover, meteors are compared with the signs in the heavens of the Gospel apocalyptic prophecies. These images and the repetition of blood and fire of Revelation allude to the end of the world. Tamburlaine’s apocalyptic imagery is inspired from the Turks, seen as demons, the Antichrists, who in the sixteenth century carried the ancient…

The Jinn’s characters are similar to the Christian entities of the Devil and his demons. However, the way that the West portrays the Jinn are caricatured, comic, and supernatural creatures. The Jinn are depicted as beings that grant wishes as the Disney’s version of Aladdin. In these accounts, the Jinn tricked humans and acted in a superficial matter. In a contrasting view, literature in the East represents the Jinn as frightful and sinister due to the Islamic religious beliefs. The divergent…

There is a significant amount of differences between Dante's image of Satan (for example, the three-faced, silent being stuck in ice) and more usual images of Satan (for example, the pitchfork-wielding devil in fire). I choose this topic because I thought the way Dante portrays Satan in Dante’s Inferno was a very interesting and different way than the way Christians and other modern religions portray him. There have many papers and articles written about this that have changed my perspective of…

A ritual is usually a step-by-step religious ceremony used to show dedication or celebration. Rituals have a sentimental meaning to the participants. The most common type of rituals that you may have experienced might be funerals or praying before a meal. Satanists practice unusual rituals that you probably had no idea existed. What are these foreign rituals? How are they categorized? (Bleach) There are many different definitions of the word satanism. The largest organization is The Church of…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon…