Life in Hell

In life, struggles are meant to happen in order to grow as a person. Whether it is in families, school, or even something as little as not figuring something out, struggles do occur. Depending on how the person takes the situation, struggles can make a person come out stronger than ever, or it can consume the person in the worst way. Some people turn to religion to help get through a struggle, it can be a source of comfort or to find answers. A Death in the Family shows the different ways that…

Rise of the Fallen Rise of the Fallen is a Christian fiction novel written by Chuck Black. It’s theme revolves around angels and demons and God’s hand in seemingly impossible situations. In this novel, the plot centers around Validus, a high ranking warrior angel. He is given a seemingly menial and low-profile task by Elohim to protect a man Elohim deems extremely important. Along the way, Validus, meets up with his old friends and enemies who are after the same man. The strong points of this…

In the sequence "Undertaker makes his entrance- undertaker 27", the director uses the theme of a scary atmosphere, when the Undertaker was making his entrance Triple H was already standing in the ring and the ring announcer called out Undertaker's name. Undertaker walks to the ring. Undertaker steps in the ring and makes eyes contact with triple H, giving him an angry look, triple H also gives him the same look but with fear. This scène is used at the beginning of the film as it is the entrance…

Night Final Essay “For God’s sake, where is God? Where He is? This is where ----- hanging from the gallows.” - Elie Wiesel. Night, by Elie Wiesel, this was set in the 1940’s during World War ll. This was at a concentration camp, Auschwitz. In the whole story, it was about Elie and his father's struggle to survive in concentration camps. The holocaust was the most traumatic experience in history, this included the leader, Hitler, with his followers, the German Nazi’s. Throughout Night, Elie’s…

the final dialog from Gabriel to Satan), he reminds the reader of where the real power resides; God, as the power of Satan and the angels comes from God . Satan is disguised as a cormorant (the bird) that symbolizes greed sitting on the Tree of Life and is already planning to bring Death to the Paradise. Milton’s Adam and Eve are described in Paradise Lost (Book four). It is then when he sees Adam and Eve . Satan has a new goal now, to corrupt all God’s new creations, Man and Earth. His…

In The Scarlet Letter, there are many symbols and themes. One of these themes is good vs. evil. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses plant imagery to illustrate his theme of good vs. evil. The Scarlet Letter contains evil elements such as betrayal and deceit, but it also contains good elements such as free spirit and positivity. Hawthorne uses weeds to illustrate the betrayal and deceit found in The Scarlet Letter. When Chillingworth finds black weeds on an unmarked grave, he says that they must have…

In some traditions an author display Hell as a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife. Also, in other traditions authors depict the Underworld not as a place where the corrupt individuals go but an abode for the dead located under the Earth’s surface. In Homer’s Odyssey the main purpose of the work was for entertainment, while Vigil was writing the Aeneid with a political agenda influencing the work. This differences in helped contribute to the contrast between The Odyssey and The…

Chapter Six, "Combining Words and Deeds Angelic Imprecations in the Book of Secrets," continues on with Jewish mystical tradition; only this time, the focus is placed on a Jewish magical witchcraft text the Book of Secrets or the Book of Raziel. Janowitz rightfully compares it with the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM), as it has many practical spells--ranging everything from healing the sick, divining the future, influencing kings in your favor, binding yourself to a "great woman", and speaking with…

he was always quick to faint and sympathize for the sinners (Alighieri 12). Typically, one sympathizes for someone who has committed a wrongdoing that they may be prone to committing themselves. Therefore, as Dante first began his journey through Hell, he sympathized for any soul who could tell a good tale. This greatly frustrated Virgil who so desperately wanted Dante to see that “the other fools” deserved every second of their torture (Alighieri 161). Through Virgil’s scolding, however, Dante…

When life brightens up, it can always reach back to darkness. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates this throughout the poem “The Bells”. Poe starts the poem off with silver bells making us remember the happy memories big and small in our life. Then Poe goes on to describe golden bells as joyus by saying, “How they ring out their delight...what a gush of euphony voluminously wells!” This represents a time in life that is happy, peaceful, and where life seems perfect. Next the narrator says, “What a tale…