Colter's Hell

of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its own symbolic punishment on a different level of Hell. Dante uses the aspects of human soul, reason and sin to display the importance of life and how people should use their…

the room and Grendel looks for his next victim. Grendel is characterized as a monster, that can perform a thousand forms of evil (Beowulf 48). He made his home in the marshes, where he kills men. The author also describes how Grendel makes his home a hell on earth, also characterizing him as a demon. Power is seen in Grendel because of all the panic he creates. Satan, from Paradise Lost, is similar to Grendel in the way of being able to change peoples’ mindsets and possess fear in them. Another…

In the book Candide written by Voltaire, Voltaire portrays a world riddled with innumerable horrors such as disease, natural disasters, rape, and war. Of all the worldly evil criticized in Candide, slavery is by far the worst. Despite Voltaire’s consistent use of humor throughout the book, when the topic of slavery is mentioned the mood becomes completely somber. Through the disheartening story of the African slave and the description of El Dorado, the utopian land free of all immoral practices,…

Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led by the Roman poet Virgil, encounters those who were unworthy of being Christians: “the unbaptized, the pagans, the lustful…

Terza Rima. The story was told in first person and describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and paradise. Dante is first told by the legendary poet, Virgil, that Beatrice was waiting for him in the afterlife. His journey lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300, which was before his actual exile. Throughout his journey Dante meets Sinners in every level of Hell and Dante stops to speak with many of them which describe what their sin…

are the non-christians and unbaptized pagans are forced to live in a castle with seven gates that surround it which is what I put on this circle. I chose dark colors for my castle because I thought they went with the theme of the circle very well and hell is not a bright colored place it is filled with dark depressing colors. In the Lust circle I used the colors brown, white, and blue and swirled them around so it would represent swirls of…

Textual Analysis Purgatory is where “the human spirit purges himself, and climbing to Heaven makes himself worthy”(The World of Dante). In Dante, Purgatory is divided into three sections called Antepurgatory, Purgatory Proper, and Earthly Paradise. Inside purgatory the upper part of the mountain contains seven terraces, each consisting of one of the seven capital sins (The World of Dante). After visiting the first terrace, that of the prideful, Dante the pilgrim and Virgil arrive at the second…

heart and these defile them.” In James chapter 3, verse 6, it is seen that “The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.” These words speak truth to Heathcliff’s life in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte as he struggles with the defilement of his own heart. As another page is turned it is seen how the defilement does not only affect his life but others…

Future Event Number Eight: The Seven Seal Judgments Up to now, it has been the enemies of God wrecking havoc on the earth, but things are about to change dramatically. God has physically intervened, and will carry the battle to the wicked by a series of judgments. The first segment of judgments is called the seven seal judgments, which are, like all the judgments, aimed at the wicked with two objectives in mind. First, to let the wicked reap what they have sown, thus fulfilling God’s justice,…

Beginning of Creation In the beginning of creation there was chaos, Chaos was the chasm that first existed. The Greek word "chaos" (χάος) means emptiness. From the void arose Erebus primordial god of darkness and Nyx primordial goddess of the night. Then Eros primordial god of love appeared. However in some myths Eros is also considered as a son of Aphrodite not Chaos. From love, together Nyx and Erebus gave birth to Aether primordial god of the upper atmosphere, Hemera primordial goddess of…