Colter's Hell

Milton’s devils heads Mammon’s advice and seek to improve hell, a group of “false” philosophers ponder their circumstances, another group heads off to explore every corner of hell, and the “more mild” (2. 546) devils decide to seclude themselves from the others and sing of their misfortune. The mild devils seem out of place, like they do not belong in hell. Milton places these devils in hell because even though they do not seem evil like their hell-bound companions their inability to recognize…

The speaker in the poem Thunder, by Joanna Baillie, takes the reader on a journey from the beginning of a thunder storm to the end results of the thunder storm. The speaker starts by describing the impending storm that is coming but is still a little ways off. The way she does this is by the following: “Behold the somber robes whose gathering folds,” / “Thy secret majesty conceal”/ “Advancing clouds from every point of heaven” / “Like hosts of gathering foes” (3-8). In the next section the…

in Upper Hell for example, the lustful and gluttonous, received less coarse punishments in hell than those in Lower Hell, the suicides and the betrayers, who committed the worst types of sins, therefore they are given the worst of treatments. Every sin is chastened differently depending on the sin committed and each consequence experienced in the after-life has a direct relationship to the actions of the sinner during their moments on earth. For example, in Canto V, circle 2 of Upper Hell,…

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante states that pitying those damned in Hell is impious and highly discouraged. This is exemplified through the multiple instances of pity and its consequences throughout the book and through Virgil’s guidance. In this essay, I will discuss pity’s role within the Inferno and how it is proven to be a sign of impiety. Pitying the sinful never has positive consequences and surprisingly turns the person pitying the damned into a sinner themselves as they are restricting…

to come because he knows that there are actions for what he does in the mortal world. He talks of wrath and tears which we can assume is hell…

In the allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, there is a town called Vanity and in the town of Vanity there is Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is a fair that was set up Beelzebub, or Satan, to provide every kind of entertainment for travelers and sell all types of merchandise all year long. The main character in the book, Christian, comes upon the fair during his journey. The journey can only be made by following the pathway to the Celestial City and being strong in the relationship that God has…

an Italian poet and a philosopher among the issues of his time period. He wrote many great poems such as “The Divine Comedy” which features his thoughts on religion and politics. “The Divine Comedy” is a poem about Dante’s allegorical trip through hell. Gustave Dore illustrated his interpretation of Dante’s fictional poem. The picture “Dante and Virgil Emerging from the Southern Hemisphere” reflects the message of Dante and “Inferno” by using the concepts of shading, connecting to “The Divine…

Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Throughout this allegory, Dante changes during his journey from many experiences he experiences, including learning that the souls in Hell deserve their punishments, seeing the people inside of Purgatory being punished for their pride, and realizing that pride is his sin while he goes through the bottom section of Purgatory. In the second circle of Hell, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca, who says to Dante, “we are one in Hell, as we were above.”…

In Christianity, understanding the spiritual world has proven to be of so much importance. With such information and knowledge, one can find solutions to many problems. Also, a person can know where to take their complains to, for example; to the devil rather than to God. According to findings, demonic possession is a spiritual attack. It affects many without their knowledge. Demons are the forces that Satan uses to accomplish his mission and vision here on earth. These forces are the ones that…

Evil is anything that defies good, evil is that of which is wicked and immoral and there is no shortage of evil in the stories of Boethius, Dante, and Machiavelli and evil is still very abundant in life in today's day and age. Each of these men approach how to deal with evil in very different ways from one another. From the different ways they choose to take evil on or cope with it Boethius's way of coping with evil is the best way from studying excerpts from “The consolation of Philosophy”.…