As humanity passed through the veil of reality the archangel Lucifer began to rebel. The angel Beelzebub whose main fault was his need to collect as much power as he could joined the archangel's rebellion along with Astaroth forming a trinity of darkness and villainy. In the end their plan came crashing down around them, and they were thrown out of Heaven. Lucifer along with his minions were thrown into an inescapable void, but their constantly growing hate caused the kingdom that would be known has Hell to fill the void. The fallen angels' combined power allowed them to speak with mankind causing humans to drown in a sea of pure evil. After centuries of being imprisoned Beelzebub possessed a mortal man whose body he used to construct seven …show more content…
The two humans Samuel and Catherine Jacobson were two simple farmers that they knew no one would miss. The men brought Samuel and Catherine into a nearby forest where they tied the two to large wooden stakes that they hammered into the ground. With that done the men dipped a crude paintbrush into a bowl filled with blood that they had collected from newborn children. One of the men used the paintbrush to draw a circle around the two stakes then he drew eight arrows that went from the middle of the circle to the outside of the shape. The man put the paintbrush back in the clay bowl, and they all turned their gaze to Samuel and Catherine who are both unconscious. Two men pick up two pots filled with water and throw it on Samuel and Catherine who immediately awaken and let out bloodcurdling screams. Two yellow colored strips of cloth are tied around their mouths to prevent them from screaming. They watch as one of the men pulls a silver dagger out of his belt and dips it in the bowl of blood. The man walks over to his captives and uses the dagger to make a cut in Samuel's left hand and Catherine's right
The story is Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. The story takes place in 1968 in the Vietnam War. The story is mainly about Richard Perry, a 17 year old african american from New York City. Perry Can’t afford college, so he decides to go to the army for some answers. Monaco’s traits are he is, braver than most of the soldiers, he takes the dangerous position of point man.
The Lucifer Effect was placed upon all of them those who did good and those who did
In Paradise Lost by John Milton, Satan and his legion of followers were cast out of Heaven and put into Hell. Satan was cast out because he challenged the authority of God. Like Victor Frankenstein and Prometheus the Titan, Satan did something that caused him to lose his title. Victor Frankenstein was a smart young man that had a lot of promise and potential. He lost all of it because he tampered with nature’s authority. Prometheus was a powerful Titan that stole the right to make life from Zeus; he too stole the power from a higher authority. All three characters, Satan, Prometheus, and Victor, ended up in their own personal Hell. For Satan, he was thrown out of Heaven and was chained to the burning lake in Hell. Prometheus’s
He new body emerging from the Pit, reborn, from Angel to mortal soul, to devil he opened new eyes upon this place. The grand fortress that loomed, and the shuffling multitudes that awaited judgment, his focus was on them only momentary, as he was still held in the shadowy grasp of Satan. Satan was building himself a body, what he would look like was a thrill that the former angel was excited for. His own form reminded him in some ways of when he was the left hand, the weapon but the scars of his torturous existence were gone. He felt so strong, and powerful, greater than he had before.
My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world." (Shelly 132). When reading this quote we are shown that mankind has completely pushed away the creature, since the people who lived in the cottage rejected him he feels that he has lost all hope of connecting with mankind, once he learns that the people have completely left the village the creature goes into a state of anger which causes his dangerous escalate into a murderer. "Evil thenceforth became my good.” (Shelly 210). When the creature says this quote in the end of the book he is acting as if he is lucifer. In paradise lost lucifer says "farewell remorse all good to me is lost;/ evil, be thou my good." (Paradise lost IV.109-110). As the creature is reminiscing back on his life he realizes that he himself is more like lucifer than Adam, he is a fallen angel. And the creature continues to realize that even the most horrible people, including Lucifer the fallen angel, have people to be with and share thoughts. The creature has no one to love or care for him. Remembering all of the terrible things that he has done it causes the creature to think about his decisions and the decisions made by the society that ever so outwardly hated him. The creature is going to die with no one even though he tried to find companionship. Society did not accept the creature for who he is, therefor he was plunged into an icy
whom thou still hast send” (5.8.12-15) . Macduff completely threw Macbeth down, his over confidence and ambition was tricked. Macbeth believed that anyone not born of woman he should not fear but was proven wrong with Macduff’s statement saying he was ripped from the womb rather than born. Macbeth fell, he was stuck in this cycle of violent acts that were all led by his ambition.
John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, has been the subject of criticism and interpretation through many years; these interpretations concur in that Adam and Eve are the sufferers of the poem, and it is their blight to lose Paradise because of their disobedience; however, their exile is merely a plight brought by Satan, and it is he who suffers exile before any others. Satan changes from Book I of the poem to Book XII; his introduction is heroic and grand, appearing as a hero rebelling against an unjust God. But by the finalization of Milton’s poem, Satan is a burnt shell of himself and, though ruler of Pandemonium, he sits in a throne in the lowest pit from God’s light. Satan’s exile brings forth the salvation of mankind and his own regressive transformation; tying in with the theme of disobedience, Satan’s exile gives
Satan’s fall can be easily broken up into four steps: he came to think of himself too highly, putting himself equal to God; he made a following for himself; he plotted a rebellion with his fellow rebel angels; and he attempted to carry out the rebellion. His attempt to overthrow God and obtain power was, however, futile and easily thwarted. Satan was severely demoted and he spent the rest of the plot trying to pervert every good thing as if it would be to any avail to do so. He attempted to exert his own powers over creation and tried to get a foothold so that he could gain more power. His extreme arrogance led to his fall from grace. “This is the same willfulness which lies behind his rebellious claim in heaven that he is ‘self-begot’…What Satan the general refuses to give up here…is…individual glory, which he pursues at all costs.” (Loewenstein, 56-57). Considering that Satan was an angel in the presence of God at the beginning, he had no excuse such as ignorance to claim. Satan’s rebellion began within himself with little else to prompt him. Satan had the ambition to raise a rebel force, but army or no army, he surely would have thought himself more powerful than he ought have. His pride also got in the way of him ever being restored to his former position. “As part of his task of exculpating God…Satan explains that even if he could repent and get back to heaven ‘by act of grace’, it would do
Lucifer was given a remarkable power in heaven, but he rebelled against God with the attempt to over-throw the Mighty Throne. Other powerful angels fought against Lucifer and he was chased from heaven to the earth. And his name changed from Lucifer to Satan, the evil one.
In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the parallelism between Satan and Eve’s fall is strong in that they were once both the highest before pure perfection. Lucifer is associated with evil, which stems from his free will leading to his rebellion against God and, ultimately, his great fall. He is known as the one who introduces sin to Adam and Eve – the first humans to ever exist. His plan to go against God is the beginning of a whole new world to the universe and a whole new significance of himself as the one known for human error and evil. Eve, “the mother of human race,” is Satan’s target to pull her down to his world of sin because she also wishes to become independent of Adam making her susceptible to anything that can separate her from
Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is a complex character meant to be the evil figure in the epic poem. Whenever possible Satan attempts to undermine God and the Son of God who is the true hero of the story. Throughout the story Milton tells the readers that Satan is an evil character, he is meant not to have any redeeming qualities, and to be shown completely as an unsympathetic figure. Satan’s greatest sins are pride and vanity in thinking he can overthrow God, and in the early part of the poem he is portrayed as selfish while in Heaven where all of God’s angels are loved and happy. Satan’s journey starts out as a fallen angel with great stature, has the ability to reason and argue, but by Book X the anguish and pain he goes through is
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an epic poem that describes the fall of Satan and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. Satan is the protagonist of Paradise Lost and has several characteristics in which readers may identify with him. Throughout the poem, Satan is not only a tragic hero but also the key character that drives the plot and portrays many flawed human qualities. As an angel fallen from the high esteem of God and a possessor of hubris that leads to his downfall, he represents a tragic hero but also a character in which readers may identify with.
“Slavery is a legal or economic system under which people are treated as property” (Laura Brace, 2004). Historical use of slavery worldwide makes it almost impossible to trace its roots. The societal dependence upon slavery is so ingrained in structure in societies that changing and overturning has been almost impossible. Scholars suggest that slavery was spread during global expeditions. By the 18th and 19th centuries slavery in many parts of the world was no longer unique. What caused slavery to exist in the industrial revolution time period? Slavery existed and increased during the 18th and 19th centuries because of the class division in society, religious beliefs, and economic and political conditions.
Through his work of Paradise Lost, Milton exposes his view that God allows suffering in order for a greater good of the human race to exist. Milton uses the Fall- both Satan’s and Adam and Eve’s- as a device to demonstrate human corruption, as each fall is “a step down from a higher being to a lower being”. Both the Fall of Satan and the Fall of Adam & Eve are falls away from a position of divine power to a position of chaos and disorder- something Milton illustrates as an undesirable event. Milton introduces Satan as a selfish, power-hungry character; similar to an individual of today’s society who believes they are the greatest- nobody can ‘one-up’ them. He inherently denies of the existence of a greater God, as that would discredit his own belief that he is the utmost being. Instead of blind denial, Satan instead builds up a power against God himself, in an effort to “contest the throne of Heaven” (slide). However, this in of itself is a hypocrisy on his own beliefs, as he cannot be autonomous in a search for autonomy, since he is unable to defeat God on his own. This is Satan’s first fall, because he has now relinquished his stance on denying a being greater than himself, and must maintain his uprising unless he wants to face what Milton would consider a second Fall. Milton uses Satan as a representation of disobedience within the human race; he is the ‘wrong direction’ in the two paths of moral decisions. He uses Satan to show that rebellion that stems from self-
Some personal skills I have and use in everyday life and work is that I can multitask, I’m dependable, hardworking, productive, resourceful, and able to adapt easily to different environments. I have always had a, “get things done as quickly and accurately as possible”, type of personality. Some of my interests are learning new things, creating things- like crafts, repurposing, painting, etc., and being outside. I like to figure things out and solve problems.