“A Small Demon is Better than no Demon”: An Analysis of the Different Faces of the Devil in Isaac Asimov’s Azazel
Alison Silveira Morais | 2018
The subject of investigation in this analysis is the Devil created by Isaac Asimov in the fantasy book called Azazel in comparison to the Devil of the Bible, created and implemented throughout history by the Christian tradition, Catholic Catechism, popular tradition and collective imagination. Furthermore, by investigating how the Devil is portrayed according to their aesthetic aspects, behavior and skills and taking into consideration the Bible as a literary text and the field of Theopoetics, I will analyze how similar and/or divergent they are from one another in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics, the background information and their superpowers. This research aims at establishing contrasts and analogies between the different facets of the Devil in the light of the portrayal of the Devil in Jerusalem’s Bible at the interface of English Studies and Theology.