An example of Stupidity would be to go along with whatever the media or anyone tells you. If you don’t question anything, or go along with everything you hear, you’re taking part of the biggest Satanic Sin. Also, Satanist cannot afford to be stupid they have to learn to see through the tricks, which is why stupidity is the number one Satanic Sin out of the nine. The second Satanic Sin is Pretentiousness. Which would be making yourself feel more important than others even if it’s not true.
Although Goodman Brown decided to go into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hid when he saw Goody Cloyse and the others. Goodman Brown was more concerned with the way his faith appeared to other people than with the fact that he had decided to meet with the devil. He resists the devil while he still believes that several members of his family and community are godly, but once he is shown that his friends and family are all servants of the devil, it became clear to him that they had a dark side that was hidden from society. After Goodman Brown finds out about these people's decisions, he quickly decides that he might as well do the same and he gives in to his temptations and grabs the devil's staff. The hidden devil inside Young Goodman Brown finally surfaced once the evil inside the others was exposed.
This shows that people who succumb to the temptations of evil risk losing their capacity for good. Throughout the story Jekyll starts giving in to his evil temptations more and more. When his temptations get too strong for him to control is when Hyde comes out on his own. The Strange Case of Dr.
The Traveler brought out Young Goodman Brown’s corruptibility and changed him for the worse. Faith was the only category Young Goodman Brown stayed true to. In the end, Young Goodman Brown was dynamically changed as a character due the destruction that his journey lead him
It can also provide as some explanation for Merlin's deceptive behavior, considering his father's influences and his ill-repute among the noblemen for being a son of the devil. And he does explicitly renounce evil in The Merlin,
Hamlet’s uses antic disposition as a tactic to uncover the truth behind his father’s death which leads the reader into believing that Hamlet is truly insane. However, the truth of it all is that it is an act of foolishness to distract others into believing that he is mentally ill. Through the use of character Hamlet proves himself as a strategic thinker by congregating solid evidence that is pointing towards Claudius being guilty of performing an act of violence. Hamlet begins to question the presence of the ghost as he states, “The spirit that I have seen/ May be the devil: and the devil hath power/ To assume a pleasing shape” (II, ii, 596-597). The act of logical thinking demonstrates that Hamlet did not act hastily and commit a sin after witnessing his father’s spirit.
So their madness, in this case, is the hypersensitivity and hyperactivity of their nerves. Edgar Allan Poe says: “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing.” If we take this statement, the “wise precautions” taken by the protagonist of “the tell-tale Heart” to hide the corpse justify his madness. The protagonist had no feeling of
Whether Goodman Brown was sleeping or awake for his errand of evil purpose is irrelevant to the message derived from the experience. The symbols and his interpretation of them is what dictate his reaction to his night of darkness and his own collapse therein. The gloomy woods through which he walked and the hidden eyes of the multitude covering his trepid steps depict Puritan society as Hawthorne and Goodman Brown envisioned it. The staff of the snake; is there a clearer symbol of evil Satanism in all of Christendom? Surely not; moreover, who should carry this infamous symbol?
After a long conversation with Mustapha Mond, John even forces himself to throw up in order to purge himself of civilization, explaining that “It poisoned me.” John does not see himself as a part of society like Lenina does; in fact, because he has always been treated and considered as an outsider, John is the very embodiment of individualism and natural instinct. John is all the more dangerous because of his refusal to accept the World State’s society and conform to their societal
When Shelly is trying to put out the problems of the Enlightenment such as individual’s to know things that are unknown, Victor takes the spotlight when he is messing with life and death. By showing that everyone has some evil in them it shows that some parts of the Enlightenment could be used against people. The collapse of the Enlightenment thinkers was on the verge when people continued to have reasoning for things weather they were right or wrong. I see this novel as a human and a monster who just both want to be loved in the wrong