Devil Essay Examples

“Pray The Devil Back to Hell”A documentary on the civil war and conflict in Liberia circa 1989. While watching the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”, I gained a greater understanding of Liberia’s first civil war. The film introduced me to the women who had experienced unimaginable suffering, such as the murder of their…

Robert E, Howard’s “The Pool of the Black One” (Weird Tales, October 1933) features a magical pool that kills humans by transforming them into miniature statues.  There is firm evidence that the concept was borrowed from the works of Sax Rohmer and Robert W. Chambers, two authors whom Howard frequently listed among his favorite writers. “Robert…

The Devil and Tom Walker, written by Washington Irving, is a prime illustration of romanticism in American literature. This book effectively represents the artistic movement of romanticism that arose during the 19th century, emphasizing individuality by showcasing emotions, love, and nature. Within the narrative, various characters including Tom, his wife, and even the devil confront…

The Devil Came on Horseback The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary following Brian Steidle, a retired Captain of the United States Marine Corps who was sent to monitor a ceasefire in Sudan. Brian was sent over as an unarmed military observer or a patrol leader, which was quite the change for the retired…

In Chapter Ten. when Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the transmutation of Roger Chillingworth from an unoffending adult male to a leech-like character seeking retaliation on his host. Dimmesdale. the writer implements comparings along with specific word pick to qualify Chillingworth. His personality in the reader’s eyes metamorphoses into one of a demonic parasite due to Hawthorne’s…

The Third Day, The Tenth Novell Alibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale. Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without…

SUMMARY: The Devil Wears Prada, directed by David Frankel is a comedy/drama film which follows the central character Andrea Sachs’ personal transition, a plain and unstylish young women, to a trendy and classy fashion victim. Played by Anne Hathaway, Andrea lands a job at ‘Runway Magazine’ and assist the editor in chief, an intimidating and…

“The devil in the desert” short story by Paul Horgan (1903-1995) was written in the year 1950. It is a story that features the adventure of an elderly priest who leaves a missionary centre to go preaching to a tribe of Indians that lives in a desert land. At the start of the story, Louis,…

 Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City is about the creation and execution of the 1893 World’s Fair, the Columbian Exposition and the actions of America’s first known serial killer. A powerful portrait of America in the 1890s, the book represents the best and worst of the Gilded Age. The book focuses on two…

Laura de Mello e Souza embarked on her doctoral dissertation, which examined sorcery in colonial Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Before she started writing her dissertation, numerous works on historiography had already been published. However, none of them specifically focused on Brazil. De Mello e Souza recognized the wealth of information available…