Archetype- The Devil Last weekend I was playing a game called Arkham City. In this game Batman was fighting the Joker. I noticed that the villain was something way more evil than your average super villain. In Batman I noticed that the Joker tricked Batman by making him think he died but he really wasn’t. When Batman walked into the room joker’s sidekick Harley Quinn, used some kind of drug to knock him out. Once Batman regained consciousness, he noticed that he was hooked up to the Joker, and was getting a blood transfusion from Jokers. Joker was infected with a disease that would eventually kill him by giving the infected blood to Batman and unleashing the disease on the city. Batman would have to track who had the cure you first go after…show more content… According to one online source “the devil is the quintessential bad seed. This type has no social conscience or moral code what so ever and cares only about his or her own comfort, pleasure, and supremacy. The Devil is a powerful manipulator who answers to no one and will do absolutely anything to get his or her way. This is from "The Devil That You Know: Literature's Evil Archetype." (Leah Dearborn, 2013.) Another source states that “the devil archetype is someone/something that hurts people slaughters people and causes immense pain to people another main part of this archetype is the fact that it tricks people.” This is from (Bruce, August Miriah, and Deanna Nicole Hunt, 2014.) The definition from the online sources all say the same thing that the devil causes pain and has no moral…show more content… The devil always tricks people, making unfair deals, and is just overall truly evil. For example in the Little Red Riding Cap the wolf in this story tricks the antagonist into thinking that her grandmother was normal but in reality it was the wolf disguised as the grandmother. In Rumpelstiltskin, a girl is told to turn straw into gold but she did not know how to do this. Then Rumpelstiltskin made a deal with her that was if he turned the straw into gold, she would have to give her first born child to him. But if she could guess his name, she would not have to give him the baby. The Devil is, according to Christianity, the primary opponent of God. Christianity identifies the Devil with the Serpent who tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.” (Bruce, August Miriah, and Deanna Nicole, 2014). So I believe that the devil archetype has stayed the same in the stories but is portrayed in a different
