Hell

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…

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…

church were mostly views of criticism portrayed through the sinners he encounters in his trip through purgatory and hell while Boccaccio explained his views through his characters’ mentioned in his collection of tales. Dante’s attitude towards the church could be argued to be a bit harsher than Boccaccio’s. Dante attacked the church through his creation of the nine circles of Hell. These nine circles…

Sophocles, both of theses works have different prospectives’ on fate, and free will. No Exit is based on three main characters Garcin, Estelle, and Inez all of these charters have made bad life choices in life, thus they pay for the consequences in hell. Garcin is a coward, stuck-up, lastly, he complains a lot, he feels that everyone should feel sorry for him. Estelle, loves attention from men. Inez, is the type of person who wants to be in control of people, and make one’s life extremely…

other assignment, is frowned upon. However, there aren’t any consequences for this act in the period of time depicted in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, as this wasn’t recognized as a punishable sin. During this period, the deepest and darkest parts of Hell was home to thieves and liars, where their souls were lost and tortured for eternity. One who cheats does so by committing thievery as they steal another person’s ideas and pose it as their own without the owner’s consent or knowledge. In the…

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…

predestined road, yet they refuse its ideology. The Inferno, an ancient epic poem written by Dante Alighieri, describes a journey through the various circles of Hell, but there is one part of Hell that is very briefly described: The Vestibule. The Vestibule is the false home to those labeled “uncommitted”; the lost souls who travel the boundaries of Hell searching for their meaning. In lines 32-48 of Ciardi's translation of the third canto of the Inferno, Virgil explains to Dante that there are…

The whole prayer is full of Messianic allusions and imagery and reference. Dante himself writes into the design of Hell elements that hark back to Christ’s triumphal march into Hell to free the Biblical heroes and ancient Jews from their place amongst the Virtuous Pagans. Dante continues throughout the prayer to continue to use the word “you.” He is thanking Beatrice for what she has done, and…

which brings us to the two productions that were both put up early this year. Glenna Burmer’s Dante’s Inferno; The Ballet and Dante’s Inferno performed by James Sewell Ballet. Both of these dance pieces trace Dante’s journey through the nine levels of Hell, as described in the Divine Comedy. Ballet Bellevue, Tice Dance Works, and Burmer Music came together on February 21, 2014, to debut Dante’s Inferno: The Ballet in The Theatre at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington. 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…