Macduff , act IV , secene III
This line is spoken by Macduff in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. He is referring to Macbeth as a devil more evil than any in hell.
"Doubtful it stood; / As two spent swimmers, that do cling together / And choke their art." Act II, Scene 3 The Sergeant compares two sides of the battle to two tired swimmers who cling to each other and drown as a result. "... fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, / Show'd like a rebel's whore... " Act I, Scene 2 Fortune seemed to favor Macdonwald at first, just as a prostitute favors a man for a short time, but leaves him afterwards. "And pity, like a naked new-born babe." Act I, Scene 7 Shakespeare is comparing pity to the helplessness of a new-born infant.
Macbeth was compared to the devil
This is a quote from Shakespeare's play Macbeth. It should be punctuated, "What? Can the devil speak true?" which is what Banquo says when the witches' prophecy about Macbeth becoming Thane of Cawdor comes true.
being caught between a rock and a hard place is one Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Christians believe that our god will protect us from the dumb, stupid, horrid devil Satan.
The devil, or Satan, always carries a hellish, red trident or a scythe, the handle made from the remains of the damned and the blade seeping with black mist.
Devil, Fireyblaze, Rock, Sandy, Sunny, Mildred and Wilbur.
The Monster is a devil that was human but was so evil in life that when he died Satan made him a devil and a comander of 88 of the legions of hell. The "Dragon" he fought is Satan because, as this newborn "Monster" watched the earth he realized that his wife was pregnant with HIS children, but Satan told him that he could never leave hell as he was a damned soul so what does our guy do he rips Satan's arms off and beats him with them! Then commands the 88 legions (given to him by Satan) to storm Hell's gates giving him an opprtunity to escape hell but not before Satan literally puts himself back together and curses our "hero" making him become the progenitor of a new race of demonic humanoid creatures commonly referred to nowadays as vampires our hero having not realized this sprinted through the gates of hell because Hell's fires were literally at his heels.
It gives the impression that Macbeth is superhumanly evil, as if he were the devil.
A saint that turned against God. Example: The devil. His name was Lucifer, and believe it or not, he was one of God's greatest angel followers. He became jealous of God and His powers, so he turned evil.
The literary term demonstrated in this scene from Macbeth is called a soliloquy. It is when a character speaks their thoughts aloud to themselves, revealing their innermost feelings and intentions to the audience.
In Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker." Tom's fake piousness is satirized. He began to act like the most devout of persons, criticizing his neighbors, despite that fact that he was already damned. The entire story was Irving's way of satirizing the pious Puritans who often exhibited contradictory behaviors.