# Satan — The End of the World character guide

> Satan in The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-how

## Snapshot

The adversary whose long retreat, Dennis argues, is measured not in battles but in the slow tilt of history toward mercy, poetry, and love.

## Who they are

Satan figures here less as a horned tempter than as the counterweight in a cosmic argument about whether the world is improving or decaying. Dennis sets the vision of holiness driving him steadily back against the grim biological counter-case: famine, plague, degenerating bodies, civilization sapping man's vigour. He matters because the book's central tension, whether humanity ascends or declines, is fought out on the ground of his supposed defeat.

## Relationships

### [Jesus Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/jesus_christ)

_rivalry_

Jesus Christ and Satan are cosmic enemies, representing the ultimate struggle between good and evil.

### [Stoffler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/stoffler)

_psychological_

Satan is perceived by Stoffler as a deceptive force that must be overcome in the end times.

## In the story

### [Comet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/comet)

Mentioned in the context of the Black Death being heralded by a comet.

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