Lucifer

The Master and His Slave; Mephastophilis’ Power over Faustus Christopher Marlowe is well known for his plays and poetry about atheism, life and death, and love. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus can be perceived as Marlowe’s most famous and influential play because authors are still referencing back to the idea of selling your soul to the devil. In the play, Marlowe presents an obvious power relationship between Faustus and Mephastophilis. However, who can be considered the master and who…

know as much as they should know. However, Eve, like most humans naturally do, develops a curiosity about the world; her inquisitiveness is only heightened more when she is tempted by Lucifer in the form of a serpent. Eve attempts to use reasoning while deciding whether or not it is okay to violate God’s orders. Lucifer is able to see Eve’s justifications of whether or not she should eat from the forbidden tree; Satan decides to act on her indecisiveness and persuade her that it is okay to…

everything in order to get what he wants from Lucifer even if that means he will waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When Faustus is introduced to the reader, he is just preparing to board on his career as a magician, and while we anticipate that things will turn out badly as the chorus prepare us there is a grand glory to Faustus as he contemplates all the marvels that his magical powers will produce. Faustus wants to sell his soul to Lucifer in order for Mephistopheles to serve…

God made the world, and all that is in it, God made Lucifer, who was at one time good. Lucifer chose to rebel against God, and became evil. The Earth, and humanity were good at first, but because the devil “Lucifer” successfully deceived man, to disobey God, the Earth, and mankind is now in a state of disrepair, evil invaded. God, because He loves us, provided a way to restore our…

The Archangel Finds His Champion Archangel Michael stared down from the golden glowing clouds of Heaven, searching the earth for The One. Lucifer had already found his moral warrior, the black king stealing the first move in their little game of sacrificial lambs and slaughter. Now it was Michael’s turn to select a pawn, to decide which little piece of the board he wanted to invade. There was a man, big and quick on his feet, an ideal fighter – yet not such a smart one. His left guard was…

The Law of Retribution in Inferno refers to the punishment given to the sinner in the after-life that directly relates to the sin committed during their life on Earth. The more disgraceful the sin on earth, the harsher the punishment in Inferno. The sinners in Upper Hell for example, the lustful and gluttonous, received less coarse punishments in hell than those in Lower Hell, the suicides and the betrayers, who committed the worst types of sins, therefore they are given the worst of…

becoming one of the most influential and successful pamphlets in political writing history (Foner 402). A particularly revealing sentence from the excerpt is “He that will promote discord, under a government so equally formed as this, would have joined Lucifer in his revolt” (Olwell 188). This sentence demonstrates Paine’s belief in the importance of unity and cooperation in the establishment of a new…

which he attempts to do. He is basically placing himself in God’s shoes, giving himself that authority (Skinner). Along with this, the creature was compared to Lucifer numerous times in this novel. With the DeLacey family, he wanted to show compassion, but ended up a hateful beast wanting man’s destruction("Frankenstein/Creation to God/Lucifer."). On the other hand, Victor was compared to Prometheus in a way that he was obsessed with the power of lightning and is trapped by his inner torture…

While Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is often hailed as the first example of modern science fiction, as a departure from the classical and from the typical literary trends of the era in which it was written, the novel is, in reality, heavily influenced by the great works of English literature that proceeded its writing. Chief among these semi-classical influences is that of John Milton’s Paradise Lost—arguably the greatest poem in any compendium of English literature. Key character’s…

William Golding, a Nobel Prize winning author, was inspired to write Lord of the Flies after he came back from World War I. He was greatly affected by the things he experienced in the war, and related these acts to a survival situation. He had learned how quickly people can snap and become someone they are not. The novel is an allegory for the hardships and conflicts he had to deal with during the war. This novel is filled with examples of survival in this novel such as surviving on the island…