Hell

painting is based on the poem Dante's Divine Comedy. In the poem Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante travels through all three planes of the afterlife. He goes to hell, heaven and purgatory. This fresco illustrates the story behind the poem. This canvas is divided into thirds. Each third allows us to see the artists interpretation of heaven, hell, and purgatory. This represents the three categories of cantos. In the middle of all of these places stands Dante himself. Dante is wearing a faded red robe…

In Dante’s Purgatorio we find that the terraces form opposites from the circles of hell in at least two ways. First, Dante and Virgil are now traveling upwards rather than downwards as they did in hell. Second, in hell the offenses range from least to worst whereas here, in purgatory, the first terrace contains those who have committed the worst of the forgivable sins, pride. It may seem strange that pride is the worst, but as C.S. Lewis stated in Mere Christianity “the essential vice, the…

Canto XXVI begins with Dante sarcastically praising his native city Florence for having so many of its citizens populating Hell: with so many thieves, Florence has earned such a widespread fame not only on Earth but also in Hell! The poet Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, now leads him along the ridges to the Eighth Pouch, where they see thousands of little flames flickering in a deep, dark valley, and reminding Dante of fireflies on a hillside. Virgil informs Dante that each…

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…

Earth instead of Heaven, Hell or Purgatory, which gives them the fear of what happens to them when they die. Their limited information on this afterlife simply enhances this fear and brings them to any other possible answer to their fear such as philosophy. The quote from above only answers that there is a Purgatory but through the more communicative nature that the Ghost has with his son, Hamlet, we are possible to create a few possible vague indications of either a hell or heaven.…

To live or to die, that is the question, and it will continue to be for as long as man is alive. Although Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare in 1602, the concept of suicide still plays a major role in society today. All over the world, humankind contemplates suicide, however, only some are pushed until death. For others, reasons and fears hold them back. Although one might consider attempting suicide, there are often things that hinder that step. For example, the question of what happens…

Pearl Gates of Heaven and Saint Peter had said he could not go to heaven due to all the things he had done to the devil and other people. But, he could not go to hell because of the devil's promise. He then asked the devil if he could leave (Jack was in a netherworld between heaven and hell) and the devil passed him an ember from the hell to lead his way. Jack had a turnip with him and he emptied it, putting the ember inside, and the jack-o-lantern was then made. Jack never had a resting place…

Satan since Adam and Eve live royally in Paradise. Because Adam and Eve live like kings/queens, sin rises to make a strike within Adam and Eve, forcing them to eat from the tree of knowledge as Satan continues to disturb God’s work. Like a prison, hell is seen as a factory full of ungrateful and menacing angels consuming confinement as if they were hungry like piranhas in a…

from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is the focal point of this paper. Pietro’s introduced in the Inferno Canto XIII, corresponding to the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell. Of all characters that I have come across in the Divine Comedy, Pietro to me is extremely 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 surrounds the idea of Pietro and Dante’s interactions in the Divine…

discovery itself. Dante Alighieri 's epic, The Divine Comedy (Inferno), and William Shakespeare 's play, The Tempest, coalesce in articulating the significance of one 's journey towards making discoveries. Dante 's guided venture into the depths of Hell, as well as Prospero 's manipulation of the events on the island, serve to convey the amount reflection and introspection involved in ascertaining new knowledge. One may also need to traverse obstacles as a part of the process that induces…