Satan in the Arts

"If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give me up to the Devil this very minute." - from Goethe's Faust

[Since I try to keep these posts to around 1000 words, something that should take no more than five minutes to read, nor take me very long to write and edit at 4 in the morning, I may have taken on a bit too much when looking at Satan in the arts. For now, let’s look at what I consider the literary “big three” in the popular formation of Satan’s appear…