The Towering Inferno

an outline of the character/cast members. Make sure to foreshadow the disaster to build anticipation and tension until the event occurs. Outline all the incidents that are the result of the disaster. For example, there might be a group of people trapped and they have to be rescued. The elevator works fine, but being trapped in an elevator is not entirely original. Think of other locations where people can be trapped. Make sure the actions feel original. Show how the major disaster causes smaller disasters. Outline the rescues. Outline who will live and who will die (and how). Use variety in the action sequences and in the rescue scenes. The tension should intensify with the action – normally a major action climax, like in THE TOWERING INFERNO. Show character transformation for the hero and other supporting cast members. Create a human antagonist. Outline what the moral lessons are and how it teaches the audience. Make sure the ending is consistent with a disaster film.…

kidnapped and tried for trying to spread his believes in the world when he was alive. Brutus was the person who killed Julius Caesar when Rome was a superpower of the world and before it fell. The third person is Cassius. He is famous because he could convince Brutus to kill Caesar and to help in the murder plot of Caesar. Dante, after noticing who was being eaten then begins to describe to the reader what Satan looks like. Dante says that, “The Emperor of the Universe of Pain jutted his…

During Dante’s midlife crisis, he ponders on how he lost his way. He is at point in his life where he wants to fix himself and go back to his “true path.” He then finds himself in a dark place and lost. After the sin radiates the mountain above him with light, he tries to climb the mountain only to see it is clocked by a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. Vulnerable as he 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…

the period of time depicted in Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, as this wasn’t recognized as a punishable sin. During this period, the deepest and darkest parts of Hell was home to thieves and liars, where their souls were lost and tortured for eternity. One who cheats does so by committing thievery as they steal another person’s ideas and pose it as their own without the owner’s consent or knowledge. In the process, they lie by saying it is an original piece of work. A person that copies shows no…

famous text of Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic poem called Dante’s Inferno. In this epic poem Dante makes a trip through Hell, purgatory, and heaven. Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through the underworld. Dante uses Virgil as his guide because Dante says that Virgil is the best poet of all time. Virgil and Dante are both Roman Catholic. Virgil wrote many important texts, the most important being The Aeneid. Many can see throughout the text how “Dante had a deep respect for Virgil as an author”…

of the poet through these allusions, through the quotes of pre-established Authors and Poets who in their own times were more able, or better poised to convey the emotion and context that Eliot may have never discovered through his own language and diction. To create the intended allusion, Eliot uses the Italian poet Dante to allude to the post-apocalyptic world that Eliot is living in, by comparing it to hell that Dante so vividly paints in his poems. Eliot 's use of allusion through quoting…

The Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno The Odyssey is an epic written by Homer. This poem is based on a love story that describes the escapades of Odysseus and his son Telemachus. Homer tells of the hardships and struggle Odysseus encountered on his way back home to his family after the war. Homer tells of Odysseus’s expeditions as he was travelling home as a hero after the Trojan War. Odysseus faced many challenges and struggles from battling Poseidon, the creatures in the sea and battling the suitors…

Throughout Dante’s Inferno, the narrator keeps doing one thing in particular: he sympathizes with nearly every sinner he talks to in many of the circles of Hell. Whether it 's for someone who lost their true love, someone who was put in a tragic situation, someone “unintentionally” involved in something sinful, etc, Dante feels sorry for them. Virgil, Dante 's guide, plays a big part in showing what (the author) Dante was trying to say- sinners don 't deserve sympathy. Sympathizing with sinners…

Sin has always been an underlying aspect of Catholicism, outlining the disciplinary system of the religion. Committing one of these determined immoral acts is considered an offense against the divine law, resulting in some form of eternal suffering depending on the severity of the crime. In the first part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the reader is presented an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. As the pair descend…

Divina Commedia. Via his journey to the Paradise through the Inferno and Purgatory, Dante the Pilgrim inserts lots of biblical and historical references to emphasize his Christian values, moral standards, and most importantly the doctrine of justification by faith (Sola Fide). By establishing a world where dead sinners (especially the famous one in the history and Dante’s era) suffering severely in the Inferno, he condemns the ones who disobey God ,and the ones who were born way too early to…