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    St. Michael, a portrayed warrior who took on the beasts of hell to protect man.However the author continues to talk about the idea that these demons St. Michael is defeating were feared by man, they were surreal that they were only to be imagined. Berger has described that beauty is in the eye of the beholder (ways of seeing, Episode 3). Stating how the individual who is analysing this image, whether they will get the hidden beauty/meaning; which is man can overcome issues that come to hand, but…

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    reason why the city is a horrible place. This story shows the theme of a journey in the way as a journey to the city. During their time in the city Mr. Head describes multiple things that he relates to hell. Mr. Head goes out of his way to point out the sewers and describe them as entrances to hell, “Squat down he said, and stick your head down in there… Then Mr. Head explained the sewer system, how the entire city was underlined with it, how it contained all the drainage and was full of rats…

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    Lewis. The letters are in the perspective of Screwtape, a senior demon, who is giving advice to his nephew, Wormwood about coaxing a man to stop believing in “the enemy” (God) and fill his life with fear and self-hate. Screwtape works for Satan in hell and wrote 31 letters to his protégé, Wormwood. Wormwood’s victim is referred…

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    In the short story, ¨The Devil and Tom Walker¨ by Washington Ivory, the atmosphere can be described as gloomy and desperate. The main character, Tom Walker, lives in Boston Massachusetts in a small, stagnant home with his wife abusive wife. They're both very selfish, yet they do share one thing, greed. The control of money takes place between the couple, causing Tom to make a very unfortunate deal with the devil. The small eroding home in which Tom lives can be profiled as gloomy,¨ They lived…

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    Virgil And Dantes Inferno

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    Virgil summons the beast Geryon from the profundities with a string wrapped around his waist, who symbolized deception he conveyed Dante and Virgil down to the eighth circle on an unnerving ride. Finally, Dante and Virgil set themselves up to cross to the eighth circle of Hellfire (Malebogle), was formed of ten particular walled in territories in which different sorts of fraud were punished. In the first pocket, Dante saw stripped scoundrels being whipped by demons these were panders and…

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    goes on a journey through hell with a poet named Virgil. Together, they descend through the nine circles of hell and learn about the sins of the souls that reside there. Dante begins his journey through hell as a naïve, sympathetic, man, but as the story progresses we see a dramatic change in the way that Dante views things. It seems unusual, in a place such as Hell, that Dante would sympathize with any of the sinners in the poem. Although Dante understands that Hell is a place for sinners, he…

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    places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” by Dante Alighieri. This shows a little into Dante’s thinking as he ranked moral failures through his structure of hell. In Dante’s Inferno there are nine different circle or levels of hell. In these circle there are different punishments for the different sins people commit throughout their life. The worst the sin is that you commit, the lower in hell you go and the worst your punishment in hell is.…

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    Virgil's Third Platoon

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    “For what reason?” wondered Virgil, his curiosity was piqued by what was mentioned to him by Brünnhilde. “My sisters…Well, you see, my sisters and I were witnesses of a Marian apparition at our local town of Osnabrück,” Isolde told Virgil. “The local Gestapo unit misconstrued it as being a celestial Weltanschauungskrieg action by occultists within MI6. Believe me, Virgil; that was their official explanation when they threw me and my sisters into an asylum.” She continued to elaborate further…

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    been lost to the dark evil abyss called hell. In the story of Dante's "The Inferno" suggest that there is a great amount of severity of violence in the levels of hell. It is well known in the circles of hell that there is violence in the form of mentality, physically and sometimes both due to the sins one committed. However, we can compare and contrast as the levels of hell increase that the violence does also. As Dante journeys through the pits of hell with his guide Virgil we see many…

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    Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld is a painting done by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Although dealing with Greek mythology, in this case, the story about Orpheus and Eurydice, it was actually painted in the year 1861 in France where Corot lived for most of his lifetime from 1795 to 1875. It is an oil painting done on canvas with the canvas being 44 ⅜ X 54 ¾ inches in dimensions. (Arts of Europe). This painting was originally purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas using…

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