The Devil and His Many Cloaks The devil cloaks himself in many ways and those cloaks are depicted in many stories, two of which one will discover by reading this piece. The two portrayals one will find consist of a dark being one who is described to appear as if working were fire is prevalent. However, the devil is not always depicted as a being that has personality, but rather he is depicted as a force that holds a shape, yet, is amorphous simultaneously. Self contradiction is the only way to describe what Poe portrays the “Red Death” to be. The “Red Death” has pervaded London and many have fallen prey to it.
Instead, Scott’s film extends upon the premise established by Shelley in her novel. In Frankenstein, the monster is perceived as a sin against nature, viewed by its creator as a “vile insect”, a “filthy daemon” that is “more hideous than belongs to humanity”, a Gothic disturbance of the order of the natural world and the threat against the purity of nature. Similarly, the grand fireballs rising above the extreme long shot of the futuristic Los Angeles cityscape, symbolic of the hell of St Elmo’s fire, the grim film noir colour palette and the highly saturated, artificial neon lightning of the streets demonstrate the absence of anything natural in Scott’s futuristic dystopia. Despite her perversion of nature, Shelley’s inexorable ties to the Romantic Movement grant nature a sense of omnipotence unperturbed by Frankenstein’s monster, where “immense mountains overhung me on every side – the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfall around, spoke mighty as omnipotence.” Whilst Frankenstein suggests a prelude to the destruction, it is never achieved. Blade Runner, however, extends upon this value, suggesting that the corporatisation of humanity’s scientific advancement has and will continue to destroy nature.
Throughout the text of Beowulf, many sections of it lead the reader to believe that they are leaning either towards a Pagan or Christian view. Much as with the beginning of the story, when King Hrothgar describes Grendel and where he had come from: Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round the heath and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time in misery among the banished monsters, Cain’s clan, whom the Creator had outlawed and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price. (102-108) Such a statement hints to the reader that the poem has a Christian twist along with the main Pagan view that is shown when Beowulf makes the statement that “It is always better / to avenge dear ones that to indulge in mourning” (1384-1385). Whether it is Pagan or Christian, it seems easily noted that religious views are shown often throughout the poem of Beowulf.
The Image of Satan in Paradise Lost Abstract: Paradise Lost is Minton’s masterpiece. It is a long epic in 12 books, written in blank verse. The story were taken from the Old Testament: the creation of the earth and Adam and Eve, the fallen angels in hell plotting against God, Satan’s temptation of Eve, and the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden. Satan, is a controversial character in this epic poem, he and his followers are banished from heaven and driven into hell, but even here in hell, mist flames and poisonous fumes, Satan and his adherents are not discouraged. The poem ,as we are told at the outset, was “to justify the ways of God to man”.
The three character’s role in this book is to torture one another. From how the book was written it seems like Sartre got his idea of hell from his surroundings and experiences on earth. First, the setting of the story is not anything like what people would perceive as hell. Many people believe that hell bestow physical torture and not mentally upon sinners. For example, Garcin entered one of the rooms in hell.
The Masque of the Red Death The story “The Masque of the Red Death” is a thought turning tale, of a country, possibly a fictional country, that endured a, murderous plague. It was a traumatizing, pain stricken time, and many people died horrible deaths. Edgar Alan Poe, the author captured the story from his detailed perspective. He described the rooms as if the personalities of the environments where alive. The elements of the plague where, horrific, skin crawling, and killed with no remorse.
In hell these souls eternally chase a blank banner; allegorically this represents the futility of their activity on earth. We are reassured that this is indeed a display of God’s justice by the message inscribed on the gates of hell that read, “SACRED JUSTICE MOVED MY ARCHITECT,” this shows that God created hell in order to punish sin while rewarding virtue. Applying Dante’s school of thought one must make moral decisions in order to give action meaning and these souls were incapable of doing so. Wasps are their catalysts in hell, stinging them into action. This hellish suburb is Dante’s first encounter with
Symbolism has a major function throughout the poem. The most rampant example is Grendel, “a powerful demon” (Beo. line 86). Grendel symbolizes the instincts that mankind rejects in order to establish order. Grendel’s “defiance of right” earns him a warrant for the hero named Beowulf to dispose of him and what he represents (Beo.
He is one of the “monsters born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by God… split into a thousand forms of evil – spirits and fiends, goblins, monsters, giants” (Raffel, p. 21). Born atrocious, born into darkness, “That demon, that fiend, Grendel, who haunted the Moors, the wild marshes, and made his home in a hell” (Raffel, p. 21). To make Grendel seem darker still, the author describes his home as a hell where he was banished to by God, leaving Grendel as a bitter, hating monster. Helping Grendel seem more of an epic villain is his hatred for man. Man knows “how Grendel’s hatred began, how the monster relished his savage war on the Danes, keeping the bloody feud alive, seeking no peace offering no truce… (Raffel, p. 22).” His hate is so strong for man because of what God has done to him.
Renaissance Philosophy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet The line indeed embodies the tragic tone of Shakespeare’s work; a noble King slain, an improper marriage and a secret murder all point to the foul condition of Hamlet’s homeland. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" – an essential line never spoken by the essential character (1.4.90). Though it captures the work, it is a line that seems largely in conflict with the main character’s vision. For Hamlet, the putridity of Denmark’s circumstance is associated with much more than a decaying nation. As the Prince says, “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable/Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (1.2.133-134).