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"All right," thought the Devil. "We will have a tussle. I'll give you land enough; and by means of that land I will get you into my power."

as a foil
as an antagonist
as a dynamic character
as the protagonist

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The Devil in this example lays out a plan to take power over the protagonist. By this definition, the Devil is acting as an antagonist.
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In this excerpt the Devil plays the role of the antagonist
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