Colter's Hell

he was always quick to faint and sympathize for the sinners (Alighieri 12). Typically, one sympathizes for someone who has committed a wrongdoing that they may be prone to committing themselves. Therefore, as Dante first began his journey through Hell, he sympathized for any soul who could tell a good tale. This greatly frustrated Virgil who so desperately wanted Dante to see that “the other fools” deserved every second of their torture (Alighieri 161). Through Virgil’s scolding, however, Dante…

In life there are very few constants- rules that govern both the affluent and the destitute. Rain does not target the man who cleans the building any more than the man who owns it. Hurricanes are indifferent to human existence, never has there been a storm that changes course so as not to inconvenience the people it eventually destroys. Nature is detached, and it will continue influence the world long after humans are gone- it is the king that cannot be over thrown, and it governs without…

A question that has been asked since the beginning of time, can a man be purely evil? Several famous figures have only made the question expand, due to their acts of terror upon mankind. Recent figures such as Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, along with a past historical individual, Elizabeth Bathory, lead us to believe there are people born with an evil filled soul. However, all of these ghastly personalities had to have families and loved ones that saw the true person inside of them. After…

When life brightens up, it can always reach back to darkness. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates this throughout the poem “The Bells”. Poe starts the poem off with silver bells making us remember the happy memories big and small in our life. Then Poe goes on to describe golden bells as joyus by saying, “How they ring out their delight...what a gush of euphony voluminously wells!” This represents a time in life that is happy, peaceful, and where life seems perfect. Next the narrator says, “What a tale…

this theme because, the miser keeps taking money and the more he take the more it will come back to haunt him . So the more money the miser takes the greater the temptation is to take more. Which is not good because if he take the money he goes to hell but,still has a chance to go to heaven. The two genes I chose was video games, and cartoon television show character. The reason I chose these two genes is when i was little I used to watch a lot of cartoons, and now I play a lot of video games.…

will reach their goals. The Inferno talks about a number of virtues as well as sins that make a person unvirtuous. The Inferno explores various sins a person can commit and it categorizes each sin from bad to unforgivable. The people Dante meets in hell were sent there because they did not lead a virtuous life and they were punished for…

illumination that will allow us to break free of our possessed, factory produced, “ Combine “ controlled lives. Throughout the novel, Kesey includes allusions to Hell and its inhabitants, as well various christ figures. Kesey’s most obvious biblical reference lies in his exposure of societal flaws. By comparing the psychiatric ward setting to Hell, itself, Kesey’s…

The Screwtape Letters is about a senior demon named Screwtape teaching his nephew, Wormwood about how to tempt a man (the patient) away from God and towards Satan. One category of shared humanity in the novel is morality. This characteristic is best shown when Screwtape writes to Wormwood, “The patient does not “own” time anymore than he knows the owns the moon.” (67) This is important because it illustrates Lewis using logic rather than just blind faith to prove Christianity as true. While…

What separates the epic poem Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel is how the devil-spawn Grendel, is presented. Is he a monster set on destroying humanity, or is he a misunderstood creature that is just trying to make amends with Hrothgar and his people? Gardner’s Grendel is a retelling of the story of Beowulf, through the monster’s eyes in depth. On the other hand, the epic poem introduces Grendel briefly, yet assertively. He is described as a terrible, evil being spawned by the devil and shunned…

at people who chose not to follow him. The author condemns these individuals with his writings to express God’s view on their ethics. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, (Edwards).” This use of vivid representation demonstrates how much anger and passion the author has against those which go against…