Life in Hell

for the greater good. This corrupt system upset many who wanted good for their society, including Dante Alighieri, who wrote the epic poem The Inferno. In the epic, Alighieri creates his own structure of Hell and names a protagonist after himself, Dante. Dante experiences all the horrors of Hell with his guide Virgil, who is portrayed as the symbol of human reason. This is not only…

of the Italian literature and the world literature – Divine Comedy, which he composed during the final years of his life. Dante 's Divine Comedy belongs to the list of the most gorgeous pieces of writing ever introduced to the Western literature canon. It consists of three parts Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Heaven), each presenting a unique picture of life after death as imagined based on the established in the fourteenth…

In Canto 20, Dante arrives at Bolgia 4 of the 8th Circle of Hell. “The Fourth Bolgia. Their heads are rotated backwards, and can only see what 's behind them. Their tears fall onto their behinds as a sign of shame, and some are blinded by the tears themselves”(Jones). Dante’s allegorical significance from the 4th Bolgia of the 8th Circle of Hell deals with the punishment of these fortune tellers. As explained by Matt Jones, Dante pictures the fortune…

Dante’s Inferno is one of the most well-known epics about Hell. His depictions severely detail his journey through the Inferno, most especially his encounter with Satan, “the emperor of the reign of misery.” This encounter holds in itself endless symbolism to be drawn out. Anthony Cassell, a medieval and Renaissance literature professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has spent many years in research on Dante’s masterpiece of Hell. Cassell published this analysis of the…

drawings are very dark, and represent the way hell is described in the Inferno. The way Dante describes his journey through hell, whether it be the creatures he comes across, or the way the sinner is being punished, is very vivid and dark, much like Doré’s illustrations. Dante’s reasoning for writing the Inferno, in my opinion, is to allow the reader to envision the punishment he would have given the people who had done him wrong. The nine circles of hell, which Dante describes in great…

ghost would rather be in peaceful paradise for the rest of his life. Since that is not the case he is restless in his roaming of the night, yearning for peace and rest. The ghost gives the reason for his restlessness stating that he is in a place much like hell, where it is on fire and has not sustenance, hence the fasting in fire. He is in this apparent hell like place because of wrongdoings that he has done during his natural life on earth, he then curiously states that he is there until these…

guides Dante through the nine Circles of Hell. He chooses Virgil to guide him because he looks up to Virgil with great respect. Virgil starts by telling him that they must go through the pits of Hell in order to reach heaven. This becomes the main journey in the story. As they walk through Hell, Dante see people that he recognizes from Florence before his was exiled.…

every aspect of the Christian afterlife according to Catholic tradition. The Pilgrim is Dante himself, who was chosen to bear witness the evils of hell and wonders of heaven and, by doing so, change the hearts of his readers. Additionally, the pilgrim was chosen because some secret sin, of which he need only to repent, that would have sent him to hell. This sin is never named, but his journey in the Inferno quickly causes the Pilgrim to repent and turn away from his own sins and temptations.…

Demons; Wretched beasts from the pits of Hell ordered to serve Satan. We all have demons residing inside us and they can be awakened at any moment either through traumatic events or by the demon in the bottle, alcohol. Throughout his life, poet Edgar Allan Poe struggled with alcoholism and this is apparent throughout his short stories and poem. Most noteably his short story, The Black Cat, where the narrators actions are influenced by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal…

severe the crime is today. The Inferno is divided into Nine Circles of Hell. As you get deeper into the circle of Hell, the crimes become severe and so do the punishments. The First Circle of Hell are…