Lust murder

"The sins punished in both Hell and Purgatory are lust, gluttony, avarice, extravagance, wrath, sloth, heresy, violence, fraud, and betrayal" (Singh, 1995). This quote shows the different types of sin that Dante believed were punished for in Hell. Like stated before, Dante thought fraud was worse than murder and it’s very evident throughout the story as shown in this quote, "souls are not deadened, as they mostly are in life; they are actually in the greatest torment of which each is capable” (Singh, 1995). In Dante’s poem there is different levels of Hell and each relating to a sin that a someone committed and what their punishment would be. These levels ranged from Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and lastly Treachery. Each of those reaching a higher punishment and cruelty level. Fraud was depicted as a man with an honest face and beautiful body, but having an evil temper and causing strife. This is how Dante saw men with the sin of fraud, and he translated that into his book as someone he has to overcome in the 8th layer of…

Though Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, two of Russia’s greatest authors, differ greatly, many of the themes that show up throughout their writings are strikingly similar. Perhaps the most notable of these shared themes is the concept of lust, strong sexual desire. This idea can be traced throughout many, if not all, of both authors’ works, large novels and short stories alike. Both authors seem to agree that, under many circumstances, lustful feelings and actions are terribly sinful and lead…

depicts hector preparing for battle with Achilles. While he is taking off his armor he is then killed while he is unarmed. The imagery of ‘goodly armor’, or armor with lavish décor, is symbolic of wealth and power hiding the corruption of the state that he was fighting for. All along hector had the lust for power and valor, not justice. He was fighting in a war on behalf of his brothers for reasons he initially opposed to, but then was seduced into as soon as they questioned his honor. Hector…

week and the prosecutor tried to ask the judge to end the trial at that moment with finding Jeffrey to be sane. The defense and prosecutor continued the argument after the judge said no to the prosecutor to have the trial ended. Jeffrey had been ruled clinically sane and had his trial continue. During Jeffrey’s trial it showed the disturbing side of his adult life. His trial showed an in-depth way of looking at Jeffrey from a different way such as law enforcement. Jeffrey would lure boys and…

Love in this world is skewed. There a million books and movies that all center around love. The plots and characters vary yet one central theme remains. Romance novels and movies portray love as an intense physical attraction so perfect it’s unreal. Webster’s dictionary says that love is attraction that includes sexual desire, the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship. Is that what society is teaching these days? That love is merely physical and logical. Whether we…

In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, love is defined as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person”. Nevertheless, as a universal concept, love does not have a specific set meaning. It is an ambiguous notion, since its definition is open to more than one interpretation. Love is something that means different things to different people. In the twenty-first century, love is becoming an obsolete concept that devours the mind of young women to obey the wishes of reckless men because of…

libido satisfying the pleasures and desires of a person. Kilgrave has adapted to the method of being anal sadistic. This method gives pleasure through commanding orders at people and love having order (Ortolano, A Short Introduction of Psychoanalysis Written & Illustrated By A Psychiatrist). Kilgrave does nothing but command people what to do. He gets antsy when he has to wait for others and do what others want to do. By giving orders he is able to fulfill the pleasure of being in control. This…

Humans have always looked for the answer to finding happiness in life. For the majority of people, they believe that love will bring them this sense of happiness. In Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become,” she talks about how we see love in the wrong way and that we should start looking at love the way the body sees it. This change in perception of the definition of love allows people to have a better chance of…

How to Show Love How is love shown? How do you know how much one loves the other? Is it through words, money, or gifts? In the short stories “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry and “Bluffing” by Gail Helgason they show that love is not about what you say, it is about what you do. Words can be used without the user being responsible to its meanings, so it cannot be used to measure one’s love for another. Only your actions can show how much one means to you. For love, one is willing to give up the…

As discussed in the Symposium, individuals have different interpretations of erotic love. Aristophanes and Alcibiades define erotic love as longing for another being which an individual is drawn to. Both these men yearn for love in the idea of another figure in their life. Alcibiades yearned for the Socrates, whereas Aristophanes yearned to find his “matching half” (Plato, pg. 19). Both want to achieve a sense of completeness in their lives, because of these yearning faults are seen in their…