Dante Alighieri

In regards to the play, "The Christians," by Lucas Hnath, the controversy the Christians vs. Christians, quarrel about the 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…

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.…

Dante’s inferno is the first of Dante Alighieri's poem, the Divine Comedy, which chronicles Dante's journey to God, and is made up of the Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). In his writing of the Inferno he adds commentary on the politics, economics, and culture of the Middle Ages. Which was very different during his time, especially with the problem’s growing with the white and black factions. And Beatrice the women he fell in love with at first sight. Even though…

The first thing that Gaiman does to use religion and mythologie as a premise for its story is with the use of realms. The Sandman takes planes of existence other than just our own, from many different religions and mythologies and uses it as the setting for almost all of the scenes. One of the biggest realms that are used in the story is Hell. Hell, which is part of the Christian belief, is not only a setting for the story, but it is also a key subject in the storyline. When lucifer decides to…

The Sinful Woods In Canto I, Dante is seen traversing through a forest. It is a scary and dark forest, but there was a hill in the distance with a glimmer of sunshine coming down from it. Dante started walking up the hill and met three beasts. The beasts consisted of a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf. The she-wolf spooked him the most and made him revert back to the darkness. The spirit of Virgil greets him when he returns. Virgil reassures him that they must pass through Hell before they can…

All the wicked individuals who deliberately commit the undeniable and unforgivable sin of disposing of their pure recyclables into the devil’s snare of the landfill shall be cast into the fiery inferno of hell. The burning fires beneath them shall smother them with toxic fumes of burning plastic to cleanse them of the terrible sin they have committed before God. The devil’s snare grows deep and wider as the sins of the human race claw at its edges. The sinners look down before it with no remorse…

THE INFERNO Dante’s divine comedy The Inferno commonly translated to mean hell remains one of the most studied masterpieces by scholars all over the world since its publication. Dante takes the reader through the journey of a sinner through the nine circles of hell. The Inferno depicted life after death and the terror that awaits those who turn into sin in the journey through hell. Scholars have analyzed Dante's work in the reference to other literary works, politics, religion, social norms…

Instead of a fiery portrayal as in the rest of the circles, the deepest stratum of hell is icy and frozen. In the Ninth Circle of Hell, the sinners are either murderers or traitors, and their punishment reflects their depravity. In Round 3 of the this Circle, the murderers/traitors of guests are encased in ice, all except for half their faces above the ice and their tears creating a frosty layer covering their eyes. These sinners are part of the frozen lake, Cocytus, because their act of…

Sisyphus is condemned to spend eternity in the underworld pushing a rock to the top of a mountain where it will roll back down so he must do it again. Camus states the reason that people see Sisyphus’ tale as tragic is because Sisyphus when he descends the hill, he is aware that he will do this task for eternity with no progress. Yet, the only reason that people respond with horror to Sisyphus’ trials is because they believe in hope. Camus argues that only if Sisyphus continues to hope is his…

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 seducers (people who used fraud…