Colter's Hell

1. If Medea were placed in Dante’s Inferno he would be in the 7th circle of hell, which deals with violence. She killed her children, the king of Creon, and his daughter, Glauce. Medea become so angry and hurt after Jason left her for Glauce. She did commit wrath too, but murder is worse than anger, therefore she should get the worse punishment. She poised a gift that was given to Glauce, and her father decided to die with her. Then he killed her children to make Jason suffer. She knew that…

literature – Divine Comedy, which he composed during the final years of his life. Dante 's Divine Comedy belongs to the list of the most gorgeous pieces of writing ever introduced to the Western literature canon. It consists of three parts Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Heaven), each presenting a unique picture of life after death as imagined based on the established in the fourteenth…

Dante’s purpose of his journey was to get through heaven so he could get to heaven, which means he has to enter the very worst part of hell. Virgil says to Dante, “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.” The last Circle in hell represents the worst of crimes, betrayal. An American writer and editor, Rob Dreher, explains Dante’s Inferno’s sinners, “They dwell forever in the pit because they…

poem Inferno Dante uses the outline of a hero’s quest to complete his character’s journey through Hell. The hero’s quest is often used because it is familiar to readers. Dante uses an abstract idea of a hero’s quest by departing Earth, descending through Hell, and finally realizing the mistakes he makes in life can lead to eternity in Hel Dante’s departure is the beginning of his journey through Hell. Dante is in a dark time in his life, known as “The Dark Wood of Error” (I.3). Dante soon…

already repent to escape hell. A major turning point for Faustus and his road to hell, is when he decides to sell his soul to the devil for twenty four years of service. The good angel repeatedly tries to make Faustus leave his magic. “Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art.”(P.20). The angel’s attempts, however, proved unsuccessful and Faustus fulfills his commitment in the contract with the devil by selling his soul to Lucifer. At this point, Faustus is officially damned to Hell once the…

Children are waiting for this day, they lie in wait month by month and plot what costumes they will wear on this day; they figure out who amongst their friends and family will gather the most candy; this day is called Halloween. Halloween is the one day in the whole year where people and children alike dress up in costumes and go door to door in order to accumulate candy, however, one would not think that Halloween was not always a child-friendly holiday but had a shadowy and foggy past.…

Journeys can be taken many ways; some people take the path less traveled, and some people take the easy way out. Dante happens to be on a journey that is less traveled by exploring the depths of Hell in the Inferno. The epic poem’s story is about self-realization and transformation; it sees Dante over coming many things to realize he is completely different from the start of the inferno journey. From the beginning to the end of the book Dante starts having a personality change from the way he…

A person seeks revenge when another wrongs him or her in order to feel satisfaction and receive justice, but his or her acts may cause him or her to become like the other. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays revenge as a sin worse than adultery in his novel The Scarlet Letter. Roger Chillingworth, a physician, reveals in the beginning that he does not feel anger towards Hester, only towards the man who did not confess his sin. Chillingworth stays in town with his real identity hidden and notices a…

Yet, at the same time, the souls in these places are receiving completely different experiences in the way in which their vices are being dealt with. If love is the source of all benevolent and malicious works as detailed in Canto seventeen, then Hell is the prison of misusage of love. On the other hand, Purgatory…

makes numerous referrals to religious beliefs and contrasts between heaven and hell with reference to Desdemona’s alleged actions. He implies a belief through his words that Desdemona is his possession and her actions have inflicted the gods upon him. Furthermore, the examples he conjures of Desdemona are inhumanly, referring to…