Divine simplicity

Smoke Hang Laini Taylor who is the bestselling novelist and an American author is known for her fantasy genres wrote, “Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist and a devil knelt over him and smiled” (Daughter of Smoke and Bone). Hell is empty, and all the devils are here to lead human beings to commit mistakes in their lives. The National Anti-drug Agency showed a particular advertisement of a smoking man hangs himself in the invisible gallows with a dark background full of cracks. The…

As the lone cowboy puts on his old worn out spurs, he gazes off into wide open prairie, nervous and a little afraid. The cowboy takes a chance and heads east looking for his lost friend. Many miles into this vast journey he spots a dozen or so vultures flying high above, and they are circling. The cowboy now knows that his buddy is either dying or is already dead. As the cowboy rides up underneath the vultures, he finds his buddy barely hanging on to life. From John Wayne to Clint Eastwood,…

There are various types of devils described in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Left to their own devices, after Satan embarks on his journey to find God’s new “creation”, the devils form cliques and divide themselves up by interests. One group of Milton’s devils heads Mammon’s advice and seek to improve hell, a group of “false” philosophers ponder their circumstances, another group heads off to explore every corner of hell, and the “more mild” (2. 546) devils decide to seclude themselves from the…

The Law of Retribution in Inferno refers to the punishment given to the sinner in the after-life that directly relates to the sin committed during their life on Earth. The more disgraceful the sin on earth, the harsher the punishment in Inferno. The sinners in Upper Hell for example, the lustful and gluttonous, received less coarse punishments in hell than those in Lower Hell, the suicides and the betrayers, who committed the worst types of sins, therefore they are given the worst of…

sinner themselves as they are restricting themselves from growing and learning from the sinners’ mistakes. Pity is a complicated concept. On the one hand, it can be redeeming and beneficial for all those involved. For instance, Beatrice, a symbol of divine good in the novel, pities Dante and consequently…

The theme for the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley is you are the master of your fate. The reason I think that this is the theme is because in the beginning the author talks about he wants to thank whatever gods there are for his unconquerable soul.This can be interpreted as the power that we all have freewill. He also tells of under the bludgeoning of chance his head is unbowed meaning he will not submit but knows what he has done but still wants his freewill and will not give in to…

his time period. He wrote many great poems such as “The Divine Comedy” which features his thoughts on religion and politics. “The Divine Comedy” is a poem about Dante’s allegorical trip through hell. Gustave Dore illustrated his interpretation of Dante’s fictional poem. The picture “Dante and Virgil Emerging from the Southern Hemisphere” reflects the message of Dante and “Inferno” by using the concepts of shading, connecting to “The Divine Comedy” and Gustave Dore’s placement of objects. To…

In Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Throughout this allegory, Dante changes during his journey from many experiences he experiences, including learning that the souls in Hell deserve their punishments, seeing the people inside of Purgatory being punished for their pride, and realizing that pride is his sin while he goes through the bottom section of Purgatory. In the second circle of Hell, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca, who says to Dante,…

with evil in very different ways from one another. From the different ways they choose to take evil on or cope with it Boethius's way of coping with evil is the best way from studying excerpts from “The consolation of Philosophy”. From reading “The Divine Comedy: The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri I noticed that he is everything of the opposite of the traditional protagonist in a story that I've read. Instead of being a brave man who only needs himself and his own will to take on…

Problem In the Taoist religion, a central problem is from the three “worms” or “corpses” that reside within the body of every person. These worms are malevolent spirits who “long for the body to die and therefore perform mischief to try to hasten the adept's demise" (Eskildsen 1998: 49). To achieve this goal, the Worms perform all manner of evil to try to shorten the lifespan of the host. They invite sickness into the body, and cause many ailments to the body of their host. The worms also report…