The White Devil

Betrayal is a common theme across fiction literature and media. Showing moments of a person turning his back on his boss, leader, and superior power to become independent. Or gather their own people and fight back, become rival of their former boss. Betrayal would be like, putting your loyalty in someone, and them turning their back on yours. It is something that can happen to anybody in the real life and Paradise Lost by John Milton, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the hit TV series…

Subservience of the Satanic Forbidden acts and disobedience are separating factors within a given society. Those who obey the rules exist within the unity of the community, whereas those who disobey seem to create an individualistic representation of themselves outside of the conformity of the society. Dealing directly with the Satanic and Demonic, John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus seek to portray and define the characteristics of the…

In our case, our villain is the devil. He tempts us into sinning and falling off our path. In our story, our choice, by free will, can either benefit us or create a roadblock in our way. Free will is described as, the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. It is also closely linked to the concepts of responsibility and sin. We as human beings, choose to participate in the evils the devil tempts us with. Not only do we get tempted and choose to fall…

learned all there was to learn known to human kind in his fields of interest, and therefore looked to another realm to obtain more. If he could have somehow known everything there was to be known about everything, he would have not sought to conjure devils for he would be…

Through Jesus’ example we can see that justice is an important part of life and there are certain situations where anger is perfectly appropriate. Paul warns us to not let the Devil take hold of our emotions, (4:27) for our emotions can deceive us into doing things that we might regret. Verse 27, “27 and do not give the devil a foothold.”…

or the public generally” while integrity is the “adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.” Even in fictional stories characters have their own reputations and integrity. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Devil and Tom Walker,” and The Crucible, a reader distinguishes the thoughts and perceptions of the protagonist’s of themselves and can compare them to the reputation given to them by the community. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” a reader follows…

died as a payment to the Devil is outrageous.…

ever so heart wrenching cancer and mental disorders; and the old fighting between tribes and clans to the presence of gang-violence in our streets. All evils that have affected our ways in some way or ways. We would all like to think these things are devil-sent from the darkest gates of hell. “So times were pleasant for the people there/ until finally one, a fiend out of hell,/ began to work his evil in the world.” (Beowulf 9) The fiend of hell, referring to Grendel, was also thought to…

Pearl is often described as an “imp”, which is in simplest terms a spawn of satan. In fact there are even points where her own mother believes that the devil was inside of her daughter. Hawthorne uses this description of Pearl to really help illustrate the magnitude of this sin in this time period, so to many people Pearl was viewed as the devil. Although as we get to know Pearl we begin to see she is more than that. Her kisses can even be viewed as a symbol of acceptance and forgiveness. The…

Dantes Inferno Dante awakes and he has been moved to another stage in the levels of hell. A three headed dog named cerberus blocks the path of virgil and Dante but virgil pleases the dog and they are able to pass. They go into the circle of gluttonous. One of the people there recognizes Dante soul and he ask Dante if he recognizes him. Dantes does not and the guy respond his name is John he was a man with a political past. There were other people in the guy political past that has been set in…