Life in Hell

Screwtape Letter, written by C.S. Lewis. The letters are in the perspective of Screwtape, a senior demon, who is giving advice to his nephew, Wormwood about coaxing a man to stop believing in “the enemy” (God) and fill his life with fear and self-hate. Screwtape works for Satan in hell and wrote 31 letters to his protégé, Wormwood. Wormwood’s victim is referred…

The Master and His Slave; Mephastophilis’ Power over Faustus Christopher Marlowe is well known for his plays and poetry about atheism, life and death, and love. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus can be perceived as Marlowe’s most famous and influential play because authors are still referencing back to the idea of selling your soul to the devil. In the play, Marlowe presents an obvious power relationship between Faustus and Mephastophilis. However, who can be considered the master and who…

part in the series, The Inferno, depicts Dante’s pilgrimage into the underworld of Hell. The epic describes Dante’s descent in an attempt to get back on a spiritual path. The Inferno was created with the purpose of telling the politics of Florence and combining ideas of Pagan and Greek religion (“Literary Background”). Dante’s work also portrays his hatred for the corrupt politicians of his era, as he sends them to Hell for the sins they have committed (“Historical Background”). Dante wrote…

Dante Alighieri was a Late Middle Ages author who wrote The Inferno where he critiques the life of sinners and analyzes their punishments as they rot in hell. Whether it be the time of Jesus Christ, or the modern era, people have committed sins ranging from lust to betrayal of God, family, and others. Furthermore, the novel greatly criticizes those who do not follow Jesus Christ. It seems to be a common theme of being raised a Christian and somehow, about halfway through our lives, we find we…

5 billion people to eternal life in Hell. The seventh circle of Hell is divided into three rings. The outer circle is home to murderers, how sink into a river of boiling blood and fire. The inner circle is home to suicides who have been turned into trees and bushed which are fed upon by harpies. The inner circle is home to blasphemers and sodomites who reside in a desert of burning sand and burning rain falling from the sky. As we grow closer to the depths of hell, the sins become more…

Exit is based on three main characters Garcin, Estelle, and Inez all of these charters have made bad life choices in life, thus they pay for the consequences in hell. Garcin is a coward, stuck-up, lastly, he complains a lot, he feels that everyone should feel sorry for him. Estelle, loves attention from men. Inez, is the type of person who wants to be in control of people, and make one’s life extremely miserable. Throughout the play Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus is fated to be a king, and under…

reason why the city is a horrible place. This story shows the theme of a journey in the way as a journey to the city. During their time in the city Mr. Head describes multiple things that he relates to hell. Mr. Head goes out of his way to point out the sewers and describe them as entrances to hell, “Squat down he said, and stick your head down in there… Then Mr. Head explained the sewer system, how the entire city was underlined with it, how it contained all the drainage and was full of rats…

the mythical method offers Eliot a satirical lens to perceive and give new meaning to the present.” Actually, Eliot is providing prospective and deeper insight into the human psyche after something like war, which destroys everything in its path—art, life, and love. Providing prospective is much different than being “satirical” in nature, being satirical hints to finding humor, or irony, which is not the intent of the poem; the poem intends to convey the melancholy and disjointed nature that the…

thought I’d be running through hell with only one arm; fleeing the demons that get off on torturing the souls of the damned. Let’s clear one thing up, they don’t carry around little pitchforks. They prefer tools that can cause more damage, like a hatchet or a sharp blade or two. As I run madly, I get a whiff of the oceans filled with vomit, bile, and the blood leaked out of the tortured. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a way out. You see, Dante was wrong. Hell isn’t composed of circles…

Dante, written by Dante himself and edited by Mark Musa, contrapasso is one of the few rules to be explicit. The thought of having an eye for an eye, what sin you commit in life, you get the opposite down in the proper circle of hell and how it was thought of to be proper justice. The contrapassos of the final circle of hell, which is pride, and therefore host the worst sinners there are. The contrapassos simony and pride are two of the worst sins one can commit and while lust is only at the…