“This Is the End (2013) - Demon vs. Craig Robinson Scene (9/10) | Movieclips” YouTube, uploaded by Movieclips, 4 March 2021, ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21I6QvLSQ4&t=116s.

In this YouTube video, it shows the scene where the devil is first introduced in the movie This is the End. You can see how unafraid the characters are and how they don't fear the devil. 

Maupassant, Guy de. “The Devil.” Short Stories Series. Creative Company, 1993.

In this story, Maupassant highlights the evilness within humanity. Humans can and will act devilish despite not having outside influence from the devil himself. The story portrays examples where greed and selfishness are able to take over one’s mind and intentions, causing them to purposely hurt others. Maupassant also emphasizes how people will go out of their way to act upon their ill intent. Despite having a story of the devil within this story, the actual evil and devilish actions come from the characters as opposed to the actual devil.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. “The Boarder.”The New Yorker, 7 May 2018. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-boarder

In this story, Bashevis emphasizes how evil people can be. By establishing one of the character’s back stories as being apart of the Holocaust, it is easy to see how some people believe that evil is present through humanity as opposed to in humanity. This story highlights the complete lows that have occurred at the hand of man, with no influence from the devil or God. Although you can try to blame the devil or God himself, evil actions done by evil people are intentional and with ill intent.

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. “INVISIBLE MONSTERS: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture.” The Monster Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, University of Minnesota Press, 2020, pp. 358–73, https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvtv937f.22

In this essay, Weinstock tracks the evolution of how we view monsters throughout time. Although we used to see monsters as ogreish, physically different, reckless, and evil, we now see them as things that don’t fit in or belong–causing us to relate to them. This essay also makes you realize that some monsters have good intentions while there are humans out there that exist with bad intentions, which redefines the way we view monsters. Is it our intentions that make us evil or the way we look?