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Black Man Archetype

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The archetypal theme of selling your soul to the devil is very antique. Most often people do it to gain some type of fortune, power, or beauty. Normally in the end they end up worse. Tom walker and queen Ravenna both made a deal with the devil and had a huge impact afterwards. Foremost, Tom was a very greedy man with that motivation it led him to selling his soul to the Black Man. For example, in the story, “The Devil and Tom Walker “ the devil says to him, “you shall lend money at two percent, a month” he replied, “I’ll charge four!! “ This demonstrates Toms greediness since he took advantage of the less wealthy making himself wealthier. Additionally, in the story it said, “Tom built himself, as usual, a vast house, out of ostentation; but

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