A deeply faithful voice who examines the Christian tenets of sin, mortality, and salvation. Utterly certain of eternal life and the resurrection, the speaker stands fearless and confident against the end of mortal life. Using intellectual wit, paradoxical arguments, and rhetorical skill, he boldly confronts the concept of mortality to expose its lack of true authority.

A personified figure historically viewed as a grim, soul-harvesting reaper, but revealed here to lack genuine substance. It operates as a prideful, deluded entity that flatters itself with an illusion of control. Far from an independent conqueror, it functions merely as a slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, forced to dwell among poison, war, and sickness.