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    into doing the right thing. Hell serves as a moral propaedeutic for those who believe in it, and are afraid to wrong themselves as well as God. Those that believe in reincarnation would not fear Hell in the same way as those who believe in God and Heaven and Hell as the afterlife, but they would fear living a life of bad deeds, pain and sin over and over again because it would be like living in their own personal hell. Atheists would not fear Hell, any type of hell, because they don’t believe in…

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    Throughout Dante 's Inferno, the reader views one man 's opinions of sin and depictions of its punishment. Dante the poet keeps his views on different types of sin obvious, just as Dante the character expresses his views on the sinners and their punishments. Ultimately, Dante the character 's views differ from the poet 's views. Dante the poet comes up with the punishment, while Dante the character usually feels pity for those punishments. In Hell, the punishments of the souls are never ideal,…

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    LLEH World: A Short Story

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    to gain all of the glory of a good person, so he will face the same torturement he perpetrated to those angels, for every life he took, which was over 10, he will be above that pit for 1,000 years, then god will decide his soul’s worthiness, either heaven or forever walking the surface of Earth alone, see you collect the souls of people who have hurt others whether physically or mentally. “Why me though, well heaven’s waiting for you, but first you have to collect a minimum of 1,000 souls, For…

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    In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne showcases the Puritan community and their way of life: living by the Bible. Of course, some Puritans do not follow the teachings of the Bible, and thus they are referred to as sinners. These sinners are punished not only by the Puritans, but also by nature. However, Hawthorne shows that nature punishes leniently while the Puritans punish harshly. Hawthorne 's word choice of the sunshine in the forest shows nature 's lenient punishments. When Pearl and…

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    Dante's Inferno Analysis

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    Intro-Dante Alighieri's narrative poem The Divine Comedy played an effective role in initiating the protestant reformation and revealing to the common person the 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…

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    Love In Dante's Inferno

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    an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led by the Roman poet Virgil, encounters those who were unworthy of being Christians: “the unbaptized, the pagans, the lustful and the avaricious, heretics,…

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    Textual Analysis Purgatory is where “the human spirit purges himself, and climbing to Heaven makes himself worthy”(The World of Dante). In Dante, Purgatory is divided into three sections called Antepurgatory, Purgatory Proper, and Earthly Paradise. Inside purgatory the upper part of the mountain contains seven terraces, each consisting of one of the seven capital sins (The World of Dante). After visiting the first terrace, that of the prideful, Dante the pilgrim and Virgil arrive at the second…

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    In the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 15, verse 18, Jesus tells his disciples that “the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart and these defile them.” In James chapter 3, verse 6, it is seen that “The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.” These words speak truth to Heathcliff’s life in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte as he…

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    world, therefore not one human who walks on this earth is free from sin, and our only hope in this world is through our faith in Jesus Christ. The Natural World The natural world was created by God. Genesis 1 gives an account of God creating the heavens and the earth from vast nothingness. He created light, land, water, creatures of land and of sea, and man. Everything we see, clouds, caterpillars, kittens, and crape myrtles, God created them. (Tyndale House Publishers, pages 4-7) In Romans…

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    Canto 1- Virgil-Personification- Virgil is the guide for Dante as he travels through Inferno. Virgil represents those that guide us in this life. People that guide us and help us along our way such as parents, teachers, or religious leaders. Most of the time when we need a guide we usually have a guide who is experienced or has been there before. Virgil is a very wise poet and is experienced. Virgil is there to protect Dante as he goes through the depths of Hell. It can symbolize just how a…

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