bitchy comments
sardonic remarks
acerbic line
acidulous remarks
funny
carnivalesque humour
main character
eponymous protagonist
personal responsibility
individual agency
predestination
Calvinist idea of predestination
loving god
benevolent God
involving death / disturbing
macabre
unstoppable
inexorable
severe / strict
austere
lying
mendacious
obsessive desire for power
megalomaniacal