The Gates of Hell

Scared for Eternity (Do you believe that hell is a legitimate way to make people act appropriate?) The afterlife is a very touchy and well-known subject. It is a concept that has been very commonly spoke of and researched in civilizations past and history, is being talked about now in the present, and will continue to be discussed further into the future. There are many questions that will never be answered about the destiny of a human’s soul after their bodies have died on earth. Here are many…

Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar commissioned his builders to construct and design a monumental gate on the outskirts of the city. The gate was situated at the main entrance to the promenade, north of the city’s border to the temple of Marduk, chief God of Mesopotamian. The monument was dedicated and named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of; love, fertility, war and sex. (Wikipedia) If thou openest not the gate to let me enter, I will break the door, I will wrench the lock, I will smash…

What is heaven like? What is hell like? These questions have been asked by humans since the beginning. Heaven and hell are somewhat described throughout the Bible. Growing up, we are taught what heaven and hell may be like and who goes where. Humans have and will always try to imagine the two realms of afterlife. The Bible states that, since we are human, we cannot comprehend what heaven and hell are like. As far as I’m concerned, heaven is somewhere I want to be and hell is not. C.S. Lewis has…

the unknown or uncertain. Throughout Dante’s pilgrimage through hell, he comes face to face with these fears and, occasionally, overcomes his fears. These fears bring questions of Dante’s virtue and of his fate, both physical and spiritual. One distinct example of the pilgrim’s fear of the unknown can be found in Canto XVII, in which he and Virgil ride on the back of Geryon, the flying beast of fraud, down to the 8th circle of Hell, the circle of fraud. During the entirety of this trip, the…

works. With her poems she was essentially a lyrical mouth piece of the Roman Catholic Church. In the poem, Hildegard describes the scene of the immaculate conception of Christ. In the lines, “Priceless integrity / Her virgin gate / opened to none,” she explains that the gate is the unbroken hymen of Marry (Hildegard lines 1-3). Also, the line is a reference to Mary being a virgin at the time Christ was placed into her womb. The next lines, “But the Holy One flooded her with warmth / until a…

historical references serve as the backbone of this masterful poem to create the dystopian, almost post-apocalyptic world that Eliot intended to achieve with “The Waste Land.” To take the reader to the underworld (Hell) particularly with using Dante 's poems creates an allusion to hell and describes the emotions of the people perfectly, for the era; “the wretched souls those who lived without disgrace and without praise.” Without Dante 's vital contribution to the allusion, the allusion becomes…

is, he decided to go back into the dark. He then sees a specter, Virgil, who was a Roman poet. Virgil says that he will guide Dante in a journey through hell. Virgil also mentions that his lover, Beatrice, is one of the three women that saw Dante lost. Virgil guides Dante into the gates of Hell. They start in the outskirts of the realm of Hell, the place before Inferno, this is where the souls that could not decide good or evil are punished by running in a never ending chase after a blank…

sculptor Auguste Rodin. His major work was two enormous doors representing Dante’s The Gates of Hell. Rodin imagined the scenes described by Dante as a world with limitless space and a lack of gravitational pull. This allowed for ceaseless and radical experimentation by the artist, with figures that obey no rules in their poses, emotive gestures, or sexuality. For Rodin, the chaotic population on The Gates of Hell enjoyed only one final freedom—the ability to express their agony with complete…

the Fall occur in darkness or during the night. Satan plots to trick Adam and Eve into sinning in the darkness. In Book 2, during the important discussion in Hell as to whether the fall angels will attempt to fight God, despite having lost the first battle that caused their exile from Heaven. Beelzebub, one of the fallen angels in Hell, remarks to Satan, “Advise if this be worth/Attempting, or to sit in darkness here/Hatching vain empires” (Book 2 Line 376-378). Satan sits in the darkness…

All Things Trash Trash is merely the refuse of a civilization. How one observes and analyzes trash varies greatly among those who associate their literary depictions with this discarded matter. Garbage can either be seen as grimy, discarded waste. It can also be recognized as such, only on a broader scale including how a piece of litter relates to its litterer. Three of the aforementioned literary depictions have proven to be prominent representations of how three accomplished writers…