Just Like Heaven

both suffer some of the adverse punishments because they were politicians big with envy over Caeser’s rise to power and despite his authoritarian rule, his impressive transformation of the Roman Empire. In effect, since they assassinated Julius Caeser just prematurely into his leadership and, thereby failed in advancing the Roman Empire because it led to a power struggle. Essentially, the justice and retribution that all of these betrayers got were deserved because their actions were as a result…

Lust, another dimension of concupiscence defiled the body corrupted the soul, and ensured dishonesty among people.” I gather this to mean that Lust is at least as bad as gluttony, if not worse. The way he phrases Lust as ‘another dimension’ sounds like Dante’s separate levels of Hell. To affirm that Lust is thought more offense, another writer on Christian virtues, Jean-Jacques Olier insists that, “Lust and Gluttony were more insidious than pride or avarice.” I synonymized avarice to Dante’s…

1. The conflicting conditions of human life A hero “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?” (Matthew 16:26 NIV) Every story has a main character. The troubles the main character goes through constitute the plot of the story. He, the hero, will eventually solve the conflict the story centers upon. The main character of many of Jesus’ teachings is the human soul. The existence of the immortal soul is…

greatest preachers in American history, Jonathan Edwards, proclaimed, “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire” (Edwards 97). Yet, another great theologian Jürgen Moltmann stated, “In hell the trumpet signalling liberation has already been heard” (67). So, what is the…

therefore placed in limbo. It confirms his human reasoning. Virgil carries all the characteristics of limbo. It makes him the best guide for hell, but also justifies the justice of god. He is wise, but without faith in Jesus, he is not allowed to enter heaven. Satan represents Treachery. It is the last circle of hell and is the worst place within hell. Satan is the one who committed the worst sin of betraying god. Treachery is the worst of hell and Satan is the one who committed the worst sin.…

artist who commits some terrible things, but the last part of the story is about his daughter, Myrrha. Myrrha is guilty of suicide and lust for her father. A key part of her story is when she realizes her feeling are wrong. “… She would marry a man just like you … the virgin lowers her head, self-convicted of evil” (1124. 446-449). She realizes that she is wrong in her feelings, but worst of all she acts upon them and actually sleeps with her father. She can’t live with herself and then askes…

crime against God in his own mind, rather than their most severe or most famous. It could be that he liked the thought of all those classical figures together for all eternity, meeting and spending time and talking with each other and that he did not like the thought of righteous Biblical figures languishing in Hell for something that could not control. It could be any number of other things. Whatever the reasoning may be, the poet leaves it to the readers to make their best…

Dante, in the Inferno, gives us a visual imagination of hell while teaching us the meaning of justice. He illustrates how the sin you commit during your lifetime, will prefigure your punishment in hell. We don’t only see this in the story, we also see this now; however, we perceive it as karma. If you do something bad, it will eventually come back at you. Dante goes through this journey to give us an illustration of the different sinners in hell and what their punishment is. Dante is halfway…

the novel, but the theme is not missed when the text opens up with “I [Amir]...saw a pair of kites, red with long blue trails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end on the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pairs of eyes looking down...suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner.” (Hosseini 2). The representation of kites in this context signifies Amir’s decision to not do the…

story that can be related to “The Resurrection of Jesus Christ”. The Resurrection of Jesus is Christian belief that after he died he rose again from the dead to wash our sins away. Most of the time, we question ourselves, If I die today, will I got to Heaven or Hell? That answer remains unknown because we do not necessarily know. People does not understand that we are on this earth for a main reason. That reason is to live up to God Ten Commandments. In the bible, it was mentioned in Romans…