So many questions are asked through people’s lives on their journey to find their purpose. Searching for the meaning or purpose of one’s life can help people open their eyes to the world around them and what effect they have on it. Since this carries such importance in people’s lives, many stories have been written dealing with the journey to find purpose. Two texts that deal with living ones life with meaning and purpose are, Dante’s Inferno and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Dante’s Inferno in many aspects deals with this question hands on. One of the most important ways it does this is the depiction of the souls of those who lived with no purpose. The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas deals with people who are trying very hard
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The characters in this story completely oppose the neutrals in Dante’s inferno. Perpetua and Felicitas have found the answer of how to live ones life with purpose. On their journey of life they found something worth living for, something to have full complete faith in. For them their purpose is committing themselves to god and doing his will on earth. Opposing people who didn’t even try hard enough to live their life with any purpose, these people lived their life for their purpose no matter what. They faced death for their purpose despite pleading from their family; these people committed themselves to their purpose in life. Perpetua uses the example of the water pot to show her dedication. She asks her father if the water pot could be called by any other name, when he says no she says “ 'Well, so too I cannot be called anything other than what I am, a Christian”. The martyrs in this story so strongly believe in their faith they are willing do die and give up all they have for it. For this these martyrs are rewarded with god, in the way each hopes to die is given to them and presumably in the after life. Most people will go through life not finding their purpose the way these people have. So the question must be asked how did they achieve this, how did they so strongly fins their purpose and meaning in
The characters in this story completely oppose the neutrals in Dante’s inferno. Perpetua and Felicitas have found the answer of how to live ones life with purpose. On their journey of life they found something worth living for, something to have full complete faith in. For them their purpose is committing themselves to god and doing his will on earth. Opposing people who didn’t even try hard enough to live their life with any purpose, these people lived their life for their purpose no matter what. They faced death for their purpose despite pleading from their family; these people committed themselves to their purpose in life. Perpetua uses the example of the water pot to show her dedication. She asks her father if the water pot could be called by any other name, when he says no she says “ 'Well, so too I cannot be called anything other than what I am, a Christian”. The martyrs in this story so strongly believe in their faith they are willing do die and give up all they have for it. For this these martyrs are rewarded with god, in the way each hopes to die is given to them and presumably in the after life. Most people will go through life not finding their purpose the way these people have. So the question must be asked how did they achieve this, how did they so strongly fins their purpose and meaning in