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The power of the devil over this ripe soul, on the precipice of becoming a known "chosen" soul but born of the good and the evil, his mother being purely good and his birth father being purely evil was complete and as the "friendship" progressed the presence of the devil became almost drug like in its intensity. "He was constant to me as my shadow, and by degrees he acquired such an ascendency over me that I never was happy out of his company, nor greatly so in it." (21) the devil, the narrators close companion uses all of his whiles to convince the narrator to commit murder, first murdering a great preacher and then following it with murdering his father and brother to regain his forsaken fortune.

At no point in the process of character contests does the narrator actually regain his sense of self, or his sense of guilt for actions done with guile, rather than with the convincing of the devil that he is righteous in his actions. The devil tells him that all of his actions are justified and he believes the words and acts upon them.

These people are your greatest enemies; they would rejoice to see you annihilated. and, now that you have taken up the Lord's cause of being avenged on His enemies, wherefore spare those that are your own as well as His? Besides, you ought to consider what great advantages would be derived to the cause of righteousness and truth were the estate and riches of that opulent house in your possession, rather than in that of such as oppose the truth and all manner of holiness.

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Even after the devil possessed the man he did not see the error of his ways. (34) He failed at every step to see what was at stake. The story is a culmination of the idea of the sins of the father. The narrator in all his piety had attempted to divorce himself from his father's sins but instead embraced them and allowed them to overtake his life. His denial of wrongdoing is clearly self preservation in the face of utter self-righteousness as well as a complete convincing by the devil that no earthly deed would change his eternal outcome. "My devoted, princely, but sanguine friend has been with me again and again. My time is expired and I find a relief beyond measure, for he has fully convinced me that no act of mine can mar the eternal counsel, or in the smallest degree alter or extenuate one event which was decreed before the foundations of the world were laid." (81) the sins of the father are the stake and no matter the protection he was afforded from his mother and the Father he was preordained to live a life of evil.

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