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Sacrifice In Cain's Cain, Lucifer

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In the story Cain, Lucifer is used as a godly figure that shows Cain some aspects of death and challenges Cain’s opinions. Lucifer challenged Cain’s emotions through this sense of peer pressure that Lucifer confines. Such aspects include how Lucifer wanted Cain to bow down to him and how he challenges Cain’s emotions about God and death. Lucifer is used by the author to show Cain his questions. Such as Lucifer showing him the Abyss of Space, meaning death, and the Earth’s former beauty. When Cain presented his fruit to be sacrificed, the act was rejected by God. Cain presents his sacrifice within his speech which views towards Lucifer’s views. For example, Cain states, “…Good and Evil seem to have no power themselves” to emphasize how Lucifer …show more content…

This theme was presented frequently with the ideas of Cain that Lucifer enhanced through the discussions of God. Lucifer tells Cain that his emotions are validated through appealing to his own thoughts. Lucifer states, “It may be death leads to the highest knowledge” to eventually validate, in Cain’s mind, his act he commits in Act 3. The author uses Cain’s character to show his underlying message. Within Cain’s emotions of hatred for his brother and having different views of God from his parents, Byron wants his readers to know that our own thoughts when put into action impacts the world around you. We can see this aspect from the statements of Cain’s thoughts throughout the story into the very end when his life changes. In Act 3, Cain kills his brother Abel out of his statement, “God loves all lives”. Because of his resentment against his godly brother, Cain’s actions affected his world negatively. His mother disowned him for his murderous act and an angel appeared stating that Cain is “Cursed from this

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