Divine Principle

Chuck Palahniuk’s interesting novel Damned, reimagines common archetypes of hell. Palahniuk gives a more modern view on what it’s like to be trapped in hell. Madison Spencer, the protagonist, after an untimely death is trapped in hell. Throughout the novel she meets famous people and demons from history. Palahniuk’s satire pokes fun at society, while still telling a story of epic proportions. Damned gives various descriptions of hell and the events that transpire down there. Also the book…

Have you ever been forced into something that you absolutely would have never done if you didn’t have to? This fear became my reality last Sunday. For the first time in my eighteen years of my life I stepped foot into a church. I choose a local church for this experience called The First Reformed Church. The address to this Christian church is 5387 W State Road 10, Wheatfield, IN 46392. In this essay I’ll be explaining how this experience has changed me as a person and the things I witnessed…

has taken revenge over all kind of figures that he knew by. Furthermore, Inferno is filled with allegories and represents a deep literature. In this essay, we will discuss about the uses and significance of allegories in Inferno. Hidden beneath The Divine Comedy, we can find Dante’s emphasis of the number “three”. Often times, we can find the number being used to categories the realms of dead; the three beasts that stop a man from achieving salvation (lion, wolf and leopard; the ultimate demon…

years. The two companies, Divine Chocolate and Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage are two profitable business that have been in their industry for several years establishing themselves with focus on their work towards sustainability and branding of their products. The main goals of the two firms are to create profit but to also instruct and teach their consumers to be more aware of sustainability in different formats to increase their market. Divine Chocolate Analysis Divine Chocolate is a…

Dante Alighieri was a Late Middle Ages author who wrote The Inferno where he critiques the life of sinners and analyzes their punishments as they rot in hell. Whether it be the time of Jesus Christ, or the modern era, people have committed sins ranging from lust to betrayal of God, family, and others. Furthermore, the novel greatly criticizes those who do not follow Jesus Christ. It seems to be a common theme of being raised a Christian and somehow, about halfway through our lives, we find we…

Importance of Invictus William Ernest Henley is an author, poet, editor, and critic. One of his poems, Invictus, is a very detailed poem. At the age of twelve, Henley had been diagnosed with tuberculosis of the leg. It was then amputated, but later on it had spread to his other leg but he wouldn’t let the doctors take his other leg. Because of this decision he had to stay in the hospital for almost two years. During his traumatic stay, he began to write poetry. This is when he had written…

In the cold the tour guide pushes the boat through the water, and bodies in the water are trying to climb into the boat. That is the opening to Dante's Inferno, that when the main character enters hell it is not warm and just a short trip. Instead Dante is shown all the different levels that hell is made of by his tour guide. With this painting from Date's Inferno the reader can see the environment that is in hell and all those who it effects. In this painting the artist uses the mountains in…

“’May your soul be damned and go to hell!’ Tenorio cursed. His body heaved as he gasped and grunted for breath” (Anaya 169). This is said when Tenorio, a man that many people believes is the father of 3 witches and may be an evil sorcerer as well, carries out the brutal murder of Narciso, the town drunk, underneath the Juniper tree. In the book Bless Me, Ultima, Tenorio is a symbol of hate because he murders two people and tries to kill Antonio, the main protagonist, but his gun misfires. He…

Shakespeare. In addition, Dante was the first to use of interlocking three-line rhyme scheme was attributed to him. His comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. Dante’s Divine Comedy has flourished for more than 650 years and has been considered a major work since Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a biography of Dante in…

Mekhla Singh Singh 1 Ene/ Euro Lit Per 3 14 October 2015 The Inferno Socratic Seminar Questions 1. How did the poem, The Inferno, influence you? The poem, The Inferno, did not influence my views or morals on life. However I think that Dante’s writing skills from the poem were influential. For example, his creativity on the punishments for each sinner and his use of vivid imagery. “Without exchanging words we reached a place where a narrow stream came…