Analysis Of The Devil In The Suit By Stephen King

Most people think of Satan as this red monster with horns and fangs, but he comes in the form of sin. Sins are made to be attractive to us by the Devil. Turkish Delight is Edmund’s favorite food, so the White Witch uses it to gain his trust and manipulate him into siding with her. Satan does the same thing with us. He uses things like lust, drugs, and money, things that may look pleasing to certain people, to entice us into a life of sin.

Satan’s character embodies the idea of a heroic figure because he questions what he feels to be true, even though his tragic fall is that he becomes easily misguided.

The devil at the dawn of Christianity bore little resemblance to the ruler of hell, the antichrist and agent of evil that he is known as in present day. Satan makes few overt or implied appearances in the Old Testament. For the important role of God’s greatest adversary, early Christians had to flesh out great parts of Satan’s story in order to develop him into his present, fearsome persona. The Christian story of the Devil is heavily influenced by earlier Greek mythology, and early Christian writings about the Devil co-opted local mythology in order to gain new converts and discredit popular pagan beliefs.

Oftentimes, the devil is depicted as an evil deity sitting in the depths of a burning pit, plotting the demise of mankind and creating all the evils that are in the world. However, in The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis, using a series of letters from an experienced tempter to his protégé, makes the case that this is false. He portrays the devils as a perverted spirit, the opposite of a guardian angel. Unlike God who truly loves man and embraces his individuality, the devil’s main objective is to cultivate humans for food, consuming their uniqueness. “We want cattle who can finally become food… we want to suck in… we are empty and would be filled”[i] Screwtape, the demonic mentor of Wormwood, writes bluntly in his letter in Chapter 8. In their

Monster by Sanyika Shakur yields a firsthand insight on gang warfare, prison, and redemption. “There are no gang experts except participants (xiii)” says Kody Scott aka. Monster. Monster vicariously explains the roots of the epidemic of South Central Los Angeles between the Crips and the Bloods that the world eventually witnessed on April 29, 1992. As readers we learn to not necessarily give gangs grace but do achieve a better understanding of their disposition to their distinct perception in life.

Immediately following the loss of innocence and the gain of knowledge in the soul of the monster, he becomes analogous to Satan, God’s enemy, in Paradise Lost. “I gazed upon my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph” (144), he states as William lies dead at his feet. The monster even recognizes that he is like Satan. He says, “I ought to be they Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel [Satan], whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed” (103). Just as the monster parallels Frankenstein in his quest for knowledge, he also does so in his being as Satan. He is the personification of the devil that is inside all in the form of sin. The monster and the devil share an experience in which it is obvious that one parallels the other. In igMalice, and with rapine sweet bereav’d

In addition to both stories having “the devil”, both stories make the main characters feel like they are all alone. Whereas in The Man in the Black Suit, Gary, in a sleep, wakes up to find a bee sitting on his nose. Moments later, the man in the black suit appears, and the bee drops dead in his

The devil who comes as a serpent approaches the human being and claims to be the free and true spirit. He claims that God is hiding them from the truth and makes them go against the law of the

Snakes have been seen as a symbol of hatred and evil since the beginning of time. The devil came to Adam and Eve as a snake when he was trying to get them to eat the forbidden fruit. Snakes play a very important role in the Harry potter series and without them, the series would not be complete. Everything revolves around snakes in this story, Slytherin, Voldemort snakes that is one of the horcruxes which is very special, and Voldemort himself he looks like a snake. “While the serpents in the Harry Potter series play a significant role in the text, it is not their life‐affirming characteristics that are highlighted but their negative associations with death and destruction via their involvement with Rowling’s malicious villains (Berner & Millman 69)” This quote helps to further explain the reasoning behind the whole world thinking that Slytherin has and will always be bad. The four main reasons as to why the audience thinks that Slytherin is always bad are that all Slytherins are evil, Slytherin can’t be brave, Slytherins only care about money and the Slytherin house does not work with the rest of the houses in Hogwarts.

The Devil in the Details Few literary giants that have been able to persist in writing with such legendary prestige as “the devil”, or Satan. The literary capabilities of an enigmatic figure of evil, trickery, and deception have been exploited countless times from ancient writings to modernity. Because of his popularity, the devil has donned a wide variety of guises in literature; however, some consistent traits of this fallen hero have remained consistent. In Daniel Orozco’s critically acclaimed short story Orientation, the author uses his knowledge of the classic devil trope to create yet another original rendition of the character.

Although many Christian writers have used the term ‘devil’ and ‘demon’ in the same context, they are seen in myth and religion as two different

If you are a true Christian, “the realism of the devil” and its forces manifestly stand out as crucial, for Jesus’ warfare against Satan endures as critical nucleus of His teachings. Principally, one of the major ‘realities’ of Satan, devil(s) ever documented persists as that of Jesus Christ’s exposure of this evil presence in the New Testament; which occurs as a key happening within Jesus’ ministry (Matt 8:28, Mark 5:15, Luke 8:36). For with the appearance of Christ, ‘a miracle erupts,’ challenging among other things, humanity’s sexuality, (although the majority of people remain unaware of the true mystery that Christ came to earth to expose concerning people’s misguided beliefs regarding their sexuality). Inevitably, this explosive

Satan, Mephisto, Lucifer, the Devil, antichrist, all these names signify the prince of darkness, the monster. Throughout history, in art and literature, depictions of the devil has changed. I will be analyzing three pieces written in different centuries to point out the changes in depictions. And also, analyze what was going on during that time period and also where it was written. This will help explain why these depictions are what they are and why they have changed over the years. In the end will be making parallels to Cohens’s “Monster Culture” and as well as other topics talked about in this course. The devil is many things but I think that most can agree that the devil is evil itself the enemy of the light. What I have noticed is

Various opinions about the Devil and hell have been in the air for some time now, yet it is still a very touchy and diverse subject. In the two short stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King, two opposing depictions of the Devil are explored to see the effect of evil on innocence. In the two short stories a Devil is encountered with the same goal of persuading the protagonist to evil. Although two different approaches are used to reach this goal by the Devils.

When hearing the word “Satan”, people often thinks of a red man with horns, a pitchfork, and a tail; he is often visualized in the pits of the underworld surrounded by flames. Why does society picture him this way? Some may say “Because he is evil” or “Because he fell from heaven”, but mostly people believe this because this is what they were taught. Satan is a figure appearing in many texts of religion who brings evil and temptation. He is known as the deceiver who leads humanity astray. He deceived Eve eating the forbidden fruit. Some religious groups teach that he originated as an angel, or something of the like, who used to possess great piety and beauty, but fell because of pride, seducing humanity into the ways of falsehood and sin, and has power in the fallen world; in other groups, Satan, also called the devil, is described as a more malevolent entity opposed to God. Although Satan is generally viewed as having negative characteristics, some groups have very different beliefs. Throughout literature Satan has been portrayed as the evillest entity to ever have existed, but Satan is not truly as evil as he is portrayed because he is more of an anti-hero or Byronic Hero in texts such as John Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as other academic scholars arguments, rather than being a complete antagonist.