I have no tongue for it.” Proctor confesses to witchcraft yet refuses to incriminate others. Although the confession in the context of the play refers to witchcraft, it can be inferred that he is referring to his affair with Abigail; he is accepting his fault in the matter, and wishes not to point the finger at another. The theme of people can use the idea of virtue and piety to advance a selfish or malevolent agenda is carried out in this action. Abigail Williams quoted, “I want the light of God, and I want the sweet love of my Jesus. I danced for the devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hands.
His very existence is for the destruction of the truly innocent. In religious terms the devil is the ruler of the underworld and can see into everyone’s thoughts and manipulate them into temptation. A Shakespearean audience would be fully aware of this due to the fact that they were considerably religious during the period the play was written and performed in. We see that Iago has devilish qualities about his character in the way he manipulates other into essentially doing his dirty work for him. The clever technique Shakespeare uses allows al the characters to perceive Iago as ‘honest’ and quite pure and heavenly like.
Faust tries all of the things the devil says will bring him happiness, but none of them do. By having faith in his vision, Faust died, never settling for the devil’s ways, always striving for the ultimate good. This is very different from the way Job secures redemption, thus the need for an allusion. Without the allusion the two stories would seem completely separate and advocate different paths to salvation, but since there is an allusion, Faust’s path is seen as an alternative, instead of the two paths being mutually exclusive and completely
Through the use of Shakespeare’s rhetorical devices he puts emphasis on the Ghost, is it an evil demon or a holy angel? He gives you a feeling of suspense through his use of litotes, imagery, metonymy, character development, apostrophe, and a very strong thesis statement. Litotes is a very popular rhetorical device in world literature Shakespeare uses it on this page to question one of the characters. He uses litotes in the very beginning of the page saying “Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, be thy intents wicked or charitable,!” and asking the spirit “King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me Hamlet asks in this passage simply if the ghost is evil or holy, which is also an apostrophe
“The Devil and Tom Walker” Michael Nwaogu English 11 Mr. Ortiz Period 2 February 1, 2013 A story of tragedy in both religion and business. In the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, Tom is egotistic and has an impatient approach towards everything, Tom doubts the decisions he make with the devil due to the exchange of his soul to the devil to become an usurer. Washington Irving’s story relates to the “Faustian” archetype because Tom Walker also sales his soul to the devil but, somewhat there’s differences between eachother Faust an old German character who sold his soul to the devil exchange for knowledge as for Tom Walker he exchange it for money; as for the third-person omniscient shows how people felt towards moneylenders throughout the story, this is how we can infer about cultural attitudes about the people. Washington Irving’s story relates to the Faustian archetype because Tom Walker similar to Faust, the character Faust in the German
Lord Henry is morally ambiguous in that he plays the role of the Devil on Dorian's shoulder through out the novel. He does not provoke Dorian specifically, but tells him philosophies and gives him books that corrupt Dorian and turns him into the creature the portrait shows in the novel. An example of the corrupting philosophies is evident on page 21, where Lord Henry first tells Dorian "Yes, that is one of the great secrets of life- to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul." Dorian spends the rest of his life pondering this phrase and following it to the letter by indulging in both obscure fads for his pleasure and eventually using drugs like Opium. The book that corrupts him further is described on page 104.
The structure or backdrop that any event occurs in is imperative to comprehend and analyze the causes and effects of the events. The play takes place in a society strictly governed by theocracy; the Puritans' greatest fear is defiance of God. Anything that does not please God is against Him, acting as compliances with the Devil. This abhorrence of the secular depravity of turning away from God, or in this instance, negotiating with and participating in immoral activities that God would frown upon, facilitates the validity of the accusations against several townspeople. The very idea of witchcraft is reprobated, as Reverend Parris reiterates, "Thomas, Thomas, I pray you, leap not to witchcraft.
We can also discern the true Shepherd's through their teachings about the incarnation of Christ and deity of our Lord Jesus. Our Saviour advised us "by their fruit you will recognize them. "(Matthew 7:20). If someone is not providing teaching based on Jesus Christ's theology then he is proving himself false. Satan and his minions have corrupted the minds of those people who listen to his deceptive ideas so as to continue their hell-based schemes.
“Powers & Principalities.” Commonweal (2011): 14-17.Academic Search Premier.Web.21 Mar.2013. The author explores the modern concept of devil. He argues that author C.S Lewis has perpetuated the modern caricature of evil in his novel “The Srewtape Letters” through the real goals was to set evil within the terms of Christian apologetics. He also observes that in several motion pictures, such as “The Devil Wears Proda” evil is personified less as a cosmic power battling God for sovereignty than as a small-time dealer in individual favors as the source of humorous mischief. The Devil is no joke.
This forces Goodman Brown to rethink the Devil’s tales of his forefathers. This is one case of an "unknown" brought to light by the Devil, which damages Goodman Brown’s sense of what is true because it contradicts a past thought. The "truth" of his ancestors brought by the Devil only slightly effects Goodman's faith overall because the ancestors never showed signs of evil during their lifetimes towards him. Yet this one discovery of "truth" is truly significant towards the fall of Goodman's sanity, for it leads him to believe he may have other incorrect understandings of life. This is exactly what the Devil wanted to happen because now that he has broken a truth that Goodman Brown previously had, he suddenly gains faith in the devil.