In the Bible, especially the New Testament, Satan (the devil) comes to appear as the representative of evil.
Radford cites Joseph Campbell's classic analysis of myth, The Hero With a Thousand Faces: "Universal too is the casting of the antagonist, the representative of evil, in the role of the clown.
In that sense Jonathan Wild is an allegory in which Wild himself is seen as a representative of evil, an example of selfishness and wanton appetite opposed to good nature and benevolence.
There's more, including the reductive if sincere denouement inside a bunker with a representative of evil (no, not Hitler) that brings the Lone Man's walkabout to an anticlimactic close.
Critics of satyagraha, both in Gandhi's time and subsequently, have argued that it is unrealistic and incapable of universal success, since it relies upon a high standard of ethical conduct in the opponent, the representative of evil, and demands an unrealistically strong level of commitment from those struggling for social amelioration.
They are just the latest representatives of the evil horde.
In September, Falun Gong's official Web site began attacking President Jiang Zemin as the man personally responsible for Falun Gong's persecution, calling him "the highest representative of the evil force in the human world".
He wrote to his mother expressing a hatred of Germans, reminding her - "and I did chase 80 Germans out of a trench by myself, didn't I?" By April 1940 he is writing to her in the Old Testament prophet role that was growing on him with the years: "I say that Hitler is the representative of the Evil One, and this war the final struggle between Light and Darkness".
As representative of Banking Evil (2006 - 2010 variety), you can certainly feel pumped up and angry at him.
Observers pondered the significance of representatives of the "axis of evil" casting an eye over Europe's efforts at political and economic union.India's Supreme Court sentenced Arundhati Roy, a prize-winning novelist, to a day in prison for "lowering the court's dignity".
