An Example Of Motifs In The Devil And Tom Walker

A motif is a recurring theme within various popular literature. An example of motif in The Devil and Tom Walker is selling one’s soul to the devil. At the beginning, Tom met the devil in the form of a stranger on a tree stump, the stranger struck a deal with Tom in which he would receive his friend’s treasure. However, the deal would include Tom gaining Kidd’s treasure, but he loses his soul in return as a price, the motif. Later when Tom tells his wife about his meeting with the devil, she persisted that he should take the deal, but Tom disagreed, so she sought out to seek this ‘stranger’ and bargain her soul for Kidd’s treasure. Eventually, Tom went to search for his wife when she did not return for a while, and found only her heart and liver,