Hells Angels

Children are waiting for this day, they lie in wait month by month and plot what costumes they will wear on this day; they figure out who amongst their friends and family will gather the most candy; this day is called Halloween. Halloween is the one day in the whole year where people and children alike dress up in costumes and go door to door in order to accumulate candy, however, one would not think that Halloween was not always a child-friendly holiday but had a shadowy and foggy past.…

Journeys can be taken many ways; some people take the path less traveled, and some people take the easy way out. Dante happens to be on a journey that is less traveled by exploring the depths of Hell in the Inferno. The epic poem’s story is about self-realization and transformation; it sees Dante over coming many things to realize he is completely different from the start of the inferno journey. From the beginning to the end of the book Dante starts having a personality change from the way he…

A person seeks revenge when another wrongs him or her in order to feel satisfaction and receive justice, but his or her acts may cause him or her to become like the other. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays revenge as a sin worse than adultery in his novel The Scarlet Letter. Roger Chillingworth, a physician, reveals in the beginning that he does not feel anger towards Hester, only towards the man who did not confess his sin. Chillingworth stays in town with his real identity hidden and notices a…

Yet, at the same time, the souls in these places are receiving completely different experiences in the way in which their vices are being dealt with. If love is the source of all benevolent and malicious works as detailed in Canto seventeen, then Hell is the prison of misusage of love. On the other hand, Purgatory…

makes numerous referrals to religious beliefs and contrasts between heaven and hell with reference to Desdemona’s alleged actions. He implies a belief through his words that Desdemona is his possession and her actions have inflicted the gods upon him. Furthermore, the examples he conjures of Desdemona are inhumanly, referring to…

of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its own symbolic punishment on a different level of Hell. Dante uses the aspects of human soul, reason and sin to display the importance of life and how people should use their…

the room and Grendel looks for his next victim. Grendel is characterized as a monster, that can perform a thousand forms of evil (Beowulf 48). He made his home in the marshes, where he kills men. The author also describes how Grendel makes his home a hell on earth, also characterizing him as a demon. Power is seen in Grendel because of all the panic he creates. Satan, from Paradise Lost, is similar to Grendel in the way of being able to change peoples’ mindsets and possess fear in them. Another…

In the book Candide written by Voltaire, Voltaire portrays a world riddled with innumerable horrors such as disease, natural disasters, rape, and war. Of all the worldly evil criticized in Candide, slavery is by far the worst. Despite Voltaire’s consistent use of humor throughout the book, when the topic of slavery is mentioned the mood becomes completely somber. Through the disheartening story of the African slave and the description of El Dorado, the utopian land free of all immoral practices,…

Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led by the Roman poet Virgil, encounters those who were unworthy of being Christians: “the unbaptized, the pagans, the lustful…

Terza Rima. The story was told in first person and describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and paradise. Dante is first told by the legendary poet, Virgil, that Beatrice was waiting for him in the afterlife. His journey lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300, which was before his actual exile. Throughout his journey Dante meets Sinners in every level of Hell and Dante stops to speak with many of them which describe what their sin…