The Judge in Blood Meridian is more than an American image—he is a terrifying universal image of evil comparable to Milton's Satan or Faust's Mephistopheles, functioning as an adversary not just to humans but to God itself.
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Michael SugrueEvidence Quote
“the judge is one of the most terrifying creatures in all of literature uh he is more than an american image he's a terrifying universal image of evil yeah in that respect he might be compared to milton satan or faust mephistopheles”
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