http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/devil Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:18 -0400 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:18 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1846/the-subversion-of-conventional-charisma-in-john-miltons-paradise-lost-and-johann-wolfgang-von-goethes-faust-part-one By Ching Yan Clarissa Lee - This paper focuses on the manifestation of an unorthodox charisma in the devil figures of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust: Part One. Using the respective connotations of ‘charisma’ with positive charm, and of the devil with ignobility and vice as a starting point, I explore how the intricate dispositions of Goethe’s Mephistopheles and Milton’s Satan isolate the two from the cookie-cutter stereotype of the devil, thus subverting the expectations readers hold for a wicked devil-antagonist. I propose that the display of the devils... Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1846/the-subversion-of-conventional-charisma-in-john-miltons-paradise-lost-and-johann-wolfgang-von-goethes-faust-part-one