Colter's Hell

have heard these words uttered from Jesus himself in Matthew 13:42, however many different depictions of hell have been asserted. In Dante’s Inferno he travels through the depths of Hell and describes what exactly it will look like and feel like and ultimately be like. However is this depiction actually accurate? In multiple areas Dante’s inferno seems to build off the biblical description of hell, but it lacks pure facts, and remains to be a fictional story, because of Dante’s lack of…

population) and it also promotes belief in Life after death like Christianity. Muslims believe that this world is just a test for the believers and they will be rewarded or punished for their deeds in the life hereafter by being sent into Heaven or Hell. The Quran, “God causes you to live, then causes you to die; then He will assemble you for the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt,” (Quran, 45:24-26). Muslims, like Christians believe that once a person dies, his soul tends to…

Sophocles, both of theses works have different prospectives’ on fate, and free will. No Exit is based on three main characters Garcin, Estelle, and Inez all of these charters have made bad life choices in life, thus they pay for the consequences in hell. Garcin is a coward, stuck-up, lastly, he complains a lot, he feels that everyone should feel sorry for him. Estelle, loves attention from men. Inez, is the type of person who wants to be in control of people, and make one’s life extremely…

F. The Two Beasts: Allies of the Devil (13:1-18) 1st: this section depicts the forces of evil as it is engaged in battle with righteousness. The dragon (devil) is a shrewd and powerful and evil being come onto the scene. We see the political power of the Roman emperor Domitian in cahoots with the devil and receiving his power from that crafty devil. There are pagan priesthoods punishing all of the people who refuse to participate in state ceremonies of paying homage and bowing and worshipping…

A student who struggles to read and understand poetry struggles all the way through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, just to find a few tidbits of information. This process requires the reading of each Canto two to three times just to find a tidbit of imagery to even get a glimpse of what is happening in three different books. “Why do you let pretension sore so high, Being as it were but larvae – grubs that lack The finished form that shall be by and by?”2 (pp 146) Why is the student who is a…

inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins and so they undergo purification before going to heaven. These souls are waiting as they experience judgement if they can immediately enter the state of heaven or if they are to be destined for hell. Purgatory has been thought of as a physical location by others but some popes believe the opposite. In Greek mythology, Euripides’ Medea is centered on the wife’s revenge against her husband, Jason, who prefers to be wed to the princess…

Demons; Wretched beasts from the pits of Hell ordered to serve Satan. We all have demons residing inside us and they can be awakened at any moment either through traumatic events or by the demon in the bottle, alcohol. Throughout his life, poet Edgar Allan Poe struggled with alcoholism and this is apparent throughout his short stories and poem. Most noteably his short story, The Black Cat, where the narrators actions are influenced by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal…

In the Bible, the Apostle John proclaims “Sin is a master to whom we become enslaved” (John 8:34). The disciple John clarifies sin can consume one’s spirit completely: tearing a person apart from the guilt of their sins. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne implies a similar concept on how sin is capable of altering one’s character, along with the shame from their guilt. Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne utilizes key elements such as diction and rhetorical devices, to convey a…

Satan since Adam and Eve live royally in Paradise. Because Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to eat from the tree of knowledge as Satan continues to disturb God’s work. Like a prison, hell is seen as a factory full of ungrateful and menacing angels consuming confinement as if they were hungry like piranhas in a…

Sachi Yang Ms. Hale English 10 ADV (1110.5) June 15th 2016 Outline I. Introduction a. Thesis Statement: After analyzing novel Lord of the Flies and the lyrics of “Sympathy for the devil”, it can be easy to find out that they have the subject about evil. Therefore, how do both of them prove that evil is a nature of human? II. Topic #1: People choose to be evil if their self-interest is involved. a. The elderly boys only care about themselves,…