Life in Hell

Dante shows this through the repetition of circles in the geography of hell as well as his selected punishments for each sin. The Bhagavad Gita explains the perpetual hell by being trapped in the world, indulged in earthly material and being misguided from Krishna. From the understanding of ultimate suffering, we begin to understand what humans value to be crucial for happiness…

Dante's spiritual guide. She has a personal attraction to Dante, which further inspires her to help him. Saint Lucy is a historically found in biblical time form when she died as a martyr, in which the Virgin Mary also redeemed Beatrice's soul from Hell into Heaven. The Virgin Mary, like Saint Lucy, is another Christian allusion. Virgin Mary is the only woman who can change the fate of your afterlife in heaven. Mary is significant because she sent Saint Lucy to tell Beatrice to seek Virgil and…

pilgrimage through hell, he comes face to face with these fears and, occasionally, overcomes his fears. These fears bring questions of Dante’s virtue and of his fate, both physical and spiritual. One distinct example of the pilgrim’s fear of the unknown can be found in Canto XVII, in which he and Virgil ride on the back of Geryon, the flying beast of fraud, down to the 8th circle of Hell, the circle of fraud. During the entirety of this trip, the mortal poet fears for his life. Considering…

Have you ever felt like you were going through Hell? In Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Dante goes through physical and emotional struggles on his journey through Hell. Dante is believable because he is dramatic, biased, and he shows emotion. Dante is believable because he is very dramatic. In canto one of the novel, Dante exclaims,” Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!” Have you ever been in the car and smelled something not very pleasant and thought it was the worst smell in the…

Puritans belief on eternal life in heaven was heavily based upon whether or not you've committed a sin. Damned were believed to go to hell while elects lived out eternity in heaven. Although no one was ever sure who god would pick as an elect or a damned they usually assumed that non sinners went to heaven. While Hester and Arthur have committed a major sin, both have been forgiven by god for a multitude of reasons expressed mostly towards the end of the story through dialogue and points of view…

journey through the different levels of Hell guided by, ancient Roman poet, Virgil who enlightens Dante on the way. Through contrapassos, which literally translates to counter-punishment, Dante unpacks the punishment that sinners undergo. At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on the principles of justice and…

importance 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…

goes on after life is done. Every culture in the world has a different belief in the afterlife. I am one of the few people that stand in the middle of this situation. I do believe in an afterlife because of being introduced to it as a kid through church. At the same time I think there is not one because there is no science proof behind this. I am open to all ideas and am interested to pick a side but as for now I sit in the middle spectrum. As a kid growing up with my dad being in my life for…

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…

In the image death is playing a violin and the musician are fleeing. Close to death or the musicians,there is a female,wrapped in a shroud. The shroud represent the disease. Also around death there are people lying dead on the floor. I was interested in these picture because death was playing a violin. In most painting death uses a scythe. Also that the people that are running are musicians. Also I wanted to find out why was death legs crossed and why was he wearing a worn out cloak. Also it…