within this novel. This article also points out many different ways of viewing Satan’s role in this novel.In our society that we live in, Satan is viewed in a much different light than in the novel. Satan and things associated with him are viewed as evil, licentious, amoral, and wrong in today’s society. Things that are disliked can also be said to be the "work of the devil." When the mention of a contemporary Satan, or Antichrist, comes about there is one name that tends to stick out among the countless names of terror…Pol Pot. Well, perhaps it may not stand as clearly as Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler, or even Osama Bin Laden, but irregardless, Pol Pot was a horrific example of a man that lead his people toward nothing but suffering. “In 1975, after five years of killings, Pol Pot [took] over Phnom Penh. He force[d] the urban people out to the country, ridding them of all their possessions. Those that refuse[d] to go [were] murdered.” (unknown-1) Pol Pot took over Cambodia claiming that it was a new era. He began the calendars anew with year zero. He brainwashed thousands by outlawing reading material for the common people. He used an easily influenced group of the youth as a bloodthirsty army. The young boys in turn turned their own people in to hordes of dead. He created a society with no economy and no religion. The Vietnamese took over Phnom Penh in 1980 and Pol Pot fled in fear. He escaped justice in 1998, when he was declared dead. Many people spoke out harshly against the cruel “devilish” actions of Pol Pot, including Dead Kennedys front man Jello Biafra. Biafra wrote a song entitled “Holiday in Cambodia”, which included the verse:“Well you’ll work harder with a gun in your backFor a bowl of rice a daySlave for soldiers ‘till you starveThen your head is skewered on a stakeNow you can go where people are oneNow you can go where they get things doneWhat you ne...
