Colter's Hell

Many people imagine the devil as a black mass or a demon with red horns. But what would he appear as if he were to come to earth to speak among humans? In the two short stories “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Man in the Black Suit”, the devils serve as the main antagonists and torment two young men. The devils in these stories use a mix of cunning behavior, dapper appearance, and persuasive dialog, to trick the character into believing there motives and turning them against their own. To convey…

Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make…

I explored Canto XXXIV of Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno. This canto describes Dante’s and Virgil’s expedition into the last circle of hell, Cocytus. As well as detailing their interactions with a number of significantly important characters. Virgil leads Dante into the last circle of hell and they are immediately shaken by a great icy wind. They look over to see a massive horrid creature stirring up the windstorm by flapping it’s wings. Dante said “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”…

Is there a heaven and a hell? If you had to live in the fiery pits of hell or in relaxing joyful heaven what would you choose? Choose wisely because you don’t get to leave after your decision is made. Obviously everyone would choose relaxing joyful heaven unless you have issues. Hell is ruled by the devil and according to many religious beliefs it is an afterlife of suffering where the wicked or unrighteous dead are punished. Heaven is ruled by God and it s referred to the sky or the area above…

Emotions are not the only tool used by Satan against us. As we continue to look at the story of Job, we see another tool in the arsenal of Satan. Just for the sake of simplicity, let’s call this second tool compound problem. I’m sure you are familiar with those, or at least the phrases “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another”, “when it rains, it pours”, etc. Notice that Satan did not give Job time to focus, or room to breath. He sent problem on top of problem, test after test and trial after…

The word “enemy” often is used to describe the devil or Satan; and the phrase “our father” is referred to as God. “All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy, are to be encouraged”(32). However, in this quote from the book The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, God is the enemy and the devil is referred to as our father below. Although it is a fiction story, the book still gives the readers a way to think about the world’s destruction and recovery through a devil’s aspect (New York, NY:…

Once again, as in “Friday”, and as in Catholic devotional tradition, these failures are the “daily wounding” that continues to nail Christ to the “eternal Cross” of the poem’s title. In one of Jennings’ early collections, Song for a Birth or Death a sequence of poems entitled “The Clown”, the circus clown becomes a clear image of the crucified Christ. The similarity is apparent in a variety of terms that include innocence “you seem like one not fallen from grace”, “helplessness” and the…

a symbolism of materialistic importance and vanity. While in William Blake’s, “The marriage of Heaven and Hell” the symbolism is that of visions of angels and hell. These authors incorporate their symbolism in a way to send across a message whether it is the background story of Satan, the materialistic importance of the 18th century, and a parody of Emmanuel Swedenborg writing “Heaven and Hell”. First, in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” the main symbolism we come across is the garden of…

Zimbardo focuses on what really makes people become bad people. He uses Lucifer as an example. Lucifer an angel of God who used to God’s light bearer and favorite angel questions God’s authority and was sent to hell on earth. He uses a quote from Milton’s Paradise Lost “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,” boasts Satan, the Adversary of God.” This is just one of the many descriptions and stories the author uses to explain his argument. He challenges people to reflect on themselves…

The speaker’s downfall begins when he decides the raven is evil, however, The climax comes in stanza fifteen when the speaker asks if he will be reunited in heaven with Lenore. He asks, “tell me truly, I implore—Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!"(Poe 89). When the speaker asks “is there balm in Gilead he is making a biblical reference. Balm was an expensive and rare medicine that was in high demand. It was imperative for many people's wellbeing. The Bible reader “I am…