Colter's Hell

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has a hell and a God that are in many ways difficult to process. Dante’s God can be seen as either a cruel God that encourages torture or a God with divine justice. He proposes a lot of possibilities that do not necessarily sit well with people. One major argument against his reasoning is that he submits people straight to hell just for not believing God. However, he places them in Circle one where their punishment is to have a near wonderful afterlife with the…

Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is the focal point of this paper. This character is introduced in the Inferno Canto XIII, also known as the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell. Of all characters that I have come across in the Divine Comedy, Pier to me is most significant as he does not claim that he was wrongfully punished in hell but worries of being recognized as an unfaithful person in the world. The concept of this paper will surround the idea of Pier and Dante’s interactions in the Divine…

thought I’d be running through hell with only one arm; fleeing the demons that get off on torturing the souls of the damned. Let’s clear one thing up, they don’t carry around little pitchforks. They prefer tools that can cause more damage, like a hatchet or a sharp blade or two. As I run madly, I get a whiff of the oceans filled with vomit, bile, and the blood leaked out of the tortured. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a way out. You see, Dante was wrong. Hell isn’t composed of circles…

and Paradiso. The most popular of these segments is Inferno, which has been translated numerous times in several different languages. Inferno is about the main character, named Dante, and his journey through the different circles of hell with his guide Virgil. Hell is divided into nine main circles, each one pertaining to a specific sin. With each sin, there is a unique punishment that each of the souls in that circle must endure for eternity. The more deplorable the sin is, the worse the…

There follows both the shout of the men the hissing of the cables; suddenly the clouds snatch away both the sky and the (light of the) day out of the eyes of the Trojans; night broods over the dark sea; heavens roared and the sky flashes with frequent lightning and everything threaten present(imminent) death to the men. Immediately, the limbs of Aeneas are loosened with chill; he groans, and extending his two palms to the stars said such things with his voice: “O both three and four times…

Throughout Dante’s Inferno, Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell, all inhabited by people who committed different sins. Dante begins his journey on ground level and Virgil gradually leads him below the surface of the Earth, descending further and further into Hell. The first circle of Hell scratches the surface of the Inferno and is the beginning of his journey. Canto 4 represents Dante’s trek through the first circle, Limbo. In this canto, Dante describes a dark and dreary…

Eru Iluvatar is the God of Middle-Earth; he creates the Ainur so he doesn’t feel so isolated. The Ainur are like Christianities’ angels. The Ainur are split into two groups; the Valar, are the guardians of the world. And the Maiar, wizard or the Istari. The Istari are low-angels; including Gandalf, Sauroman, Radagast, and the two blue wizards. The Istari’s main mission is to protect the people of the world from evil. Melkor is the reason for such evil in the world. When Eru Iluvatar and his…

existence of hell. Ultimately, the idea that hell does not exist in the presence of Christianity seems absurd, since Christians deem the origin of evil behavior to be stored there. In another literary work "the philosophy of pitchforks," it also reassesses the image of hell. Pastor Paul did have a good point when he stated that the Bible "does not say hell" (Hnath 37). The poem also correlates with the mystery behind the truth about hell. Owens opens the poem by stating, "in a dark pit of…

Rangi further buried deeper into insanity, spiraling into the unknown cries. “I feel lost and so alone and I'm scared I'm in an endless clouded dream endlessly chasing voiceless whispers in a timeless domain. I've become dependent and powerless to resist. It's time for our day's of beauty to come again however, I just have to know if I'm I too afraid to surmise a different way? With my voice I supply air to breathe and calm still skies, for knowledge and wisdom to arise and course in the breeze.…

Traditionally, Hell in a secular conversation of the modern world comes across as jokingly or one of the largest insults to be made, and in the religious world comes across as one of the scariest and touchiest subjects. Even after centuries since the authorship of The Divine Comedy the feeling that the name of Hell brings remains the same, uncomfort and largely, fear. The Catholic Catechism and belief discusses how God created Hell for the fallen angels as a gift for what they intended,…