Week+Eight

Today Rob gave us his presentation on "The Evil Incarnate" or the archetype who is pure evil. The complete opposite and enemy of the hero. For his mythological examples he chose:
 * Monday October 22nd**

__Iblis__**-** the primary Islamic devil who appears in the Koran. Iblis was a Jinn, a man made of smokeless fire by Allah (God). In the Koran Iblis was responsible for enticing Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge and was condemned to Jahannam (Islam name for hell). He tempts humans to sin and turn away from Allah and Jannah (Islamic heaven). and __The Devil__**-** In Christianity, Lucifer was an archangel who became too powerful led a rebellion against God. God banished him and his supporters from heaven because of this. Lucifer and the other fallen angels decended into hell where he ruled as the Devil, the emperor of hell.

He also used the modern film examples of:

__Voldemort__- The Dark Lord who rises again in //Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire//. Voldemort is a pure evil being who tried to kill Harry when he was just a baby, but ended up losing all his powers when the spell backfired. Rob showed the scene where Wormtail, a minion of the Dark Lord, uses a spell to restore Voldemort and then Voldemort summons the deaht eaters, his group of wizard supporters bound to him by a scar on their arm. Rob told us it was the scene that got him into Harry Potter in the first place. and __Darth Sidious__- The main evil in the star wars saga. Sidious is diguised as Chancellor Palpatine and the scene Rob showed was when he was confronted by Master Mace Windu and revealed his true idenity as the sith lord. They fight and Anican Skywalker shows up to stop the battle. When Windu is about to kill Sidious, Anican cuts off Windu's arm and Sidious kills him. Anican plagues his alligence to Sidious and is given the name Darth Vador. The scene really shows how Sidious is pure evil has been planning to turn Anican over to the dark side the entire time.

Rob ended his presentation by describing the pyschological aspects of the archetype and that it reoccurs because people need to put things into black and white and that the presense of this pure evil being is necessary to contrast with the hero.

Lasandra presented today with another enemy of the hero, the moster archetype. She explained the monster as a creature or person who is remarkably evil or demented, or not in their right mind. The monster in mythological times was typically a creature of some sort often the result of punishment from the gods.
 * Tuesday October 23rd**