The shunned demons are like innocent children who squeal with delight when they catch snowflakes on their tongue and are eager to help Lucy, Ham, and Mrs. Noyes. We find "the only demon . is Doctor Noyes," (pg 42) who relegates the demons to death because he sees them as a threat, just as he sees the frolicking sea dwellers as "creatures of hell . spewed from Satan's mouth." (pg 236) They too are murdered for mistakenly believing they could be a friend of man. Noah's actions make it painfully clear where the true evil resides especially when they are done in the name of his God. Lucy is forever "opposed to Doctor Noyes - . opposed to his methods and his tactics and his . evil ways." (pg 279) She throws her lot in with the humans to live with them and face death with them, while Noah's God leaves "His friends to rot - alone." (pg 350) This is a world where appearances are deceiving, where all that seems good is evil and all that is evil is good.
Further playing on the fair is foul theme, those who seem the most pure are, in reality, the most corrupt. Hannah, " 'going about her business,' just as she [has] been told [is] the only treasure in the trove" (pg 15) of Noah. To Yahweh she encompasses all that is "intended in the gesture of Creation. Purity of heart and motive. Devotion and subservience to the greater glory." (pg 88) She alone is the only woman allowed in the apple orchard, a place where "only women with the highest dispensations [are] allowed to walk." (pg 139) Yet, Hannah's purity is a ploy in which she uses her sexuality as a bargaining tool in order to reach her goals in a male dominated world. She "has no rivals in [the] court" (pg 72) of Yahweh and seizes upon this with a vengeance. She makes herself a fawning handmaiden to Yahweh in order to secure her position in his good graces and to elevate herself above the other women. On the ark, Hannah is "the only passenger who thinks about survival clinically: who reasons through the whole long process of staying alive at any cost: whose perseverance is calculated from moment to moment.