Inferno

The fresco is Dante and His Poem painted by Domenico di Michelino. This fresco was created in 1465 and is located in Florence in the Cathedral. This 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…

Every religion has their view of where people go after they die and the Jewish religion has their own view that is different than other religions. Someone might relate the Holocaust to Hell on earth but there is another type of Hell were souls who are to be punished must go. Every soul must go somewhere, sadly there are some wicked people who deserve to be punished for cruel acts they commit when they are alive. Judaism do not seem to view the afterlife of there being a Hell but more like a…

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…

“’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…

To what extent does tragedy impose on our knowledge of suffering? First it is important to realize, not everyone follows the path of righteousness; most of mankind hold values that conflict with opinions on how to live. Susan Sipple relays, " No single voice is sufficient. Women 's voices will convey a different experience of suffering than the voices of men; black voices speak differently than white voices; martyrs ' voices will not match the voices of inquisitors[…]." and so forth. When…

Can the devil be an epic hero? In John Milton's Paradise Lost- the great epic from the English Renaissance, this topic was discussed time and again. Numbers of scholars believe that Paradise lost should be one of the most outstanding products of the Renaissance, especially when talking about the question can the devil be an epic hero? Satan's speech allows us to view him as a heroic character, one who will not accept defeat. Milton's presentation of Satan is intriguing and it can be argued that…

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values.…

Negative Anger Why you will be punished by your anger? "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned" (Buddha, para 1). This quote illustrates that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing; but, it can destroy everything. Sometimes anger can be transformed to a hurtful tool that can hurt mostly its owner than others. It is a normal feeling everybody can undergo through it. But, the problem is how to manage…

Death is a painful lash of a whip to remind us of the deathless state which is man’s destiny. Through a series of interplay of paradoxes the truth is revealed to man. The Eternal Night in which Savitri finds herself is no more than the shadow of the Eternal Day. Night is compared to the dark mother. Though man feels himself engrossed in night, man has come to this dark mother from a supernal Light, and by that Light man lives and ultimately goes to his final destination. Naturally it is that the…

The punishment, for each Circle of Dante’s Hell, is connected to its corresponding sin. For example, in the 4th Circle, the Hoarders and Spendthrifts are punished by being forced to push stones into each other over and over. This punishment is fitting because the hoarders’ stones could represent all the materialistic things he or she hoarded and the spendthrifts’ stones could represent all the money he or she spent. The hoarders and the spendthrifts are opposite extremes and because of their…