Perhaps the most Boschlike composition by Bruegel. There are monsters, demons, a melee of ruins, ships, odd towers and caves, and perdition wherever one looks. There is the truly dominant figure of Mad Meg (Dulle Griet), who strides forward with a powerful gait. She is worse then Hell. In fact, she has just emerged from Hell victorious, laden with loot, and onto other conquests which remain unknown to us. She strides with contempt, with the wild stare of the fanatic, armed for combat. She is greed personified. The figures of Hell, under the bridge in the lower right of the painting, brandish their armor and weapons pathetically at her. 

Bruegel's' characterization of Satan as an enormous whalelike demon, reminiscent of the "Mouth of Hell", is conceived of as an impassive tool rather then a violent agent of destruction. His face is covered in parasites who show more interest in him then the figure who dominates the painting, Mad Meg.