The Towering Inferno

In Dante’s The Divine Comedy, he describes the very center of Hell as an icy, frozen place. This is a direct contrast to what people normally believe Hell to be like, as expressed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which it is rather described as a place full of fire, a literal furnace. Our minds are immediately drawn to a fiery Hell, as that is what is traditionally pictured in modern-day pop culture and the like. However, I believe Dante was right in his description, that ice is a metaphor…

When thinking of Hell and what it may be like, one may turn to Dante’s work of epic poetry, Inferno, for guidance as it sets up Dante’s idea of what Hell is like and how sinners are organized. It becomes obvious that Dante looks upon his Christian values to determine his idea of Hell, but it may also be thought that Dante uses his knowledge and personal feelings of the people he condemns as well as his own life experiences as a guide to determine where in Hell sinners will go. This is apparent…

lead to a self-serving leaders who made decisions that reflected upon their own self-interests and not for the greater good. This corrupt system upset many who wanted good for their society, including Dante Alighieri, who wrote the epic poem The Inferno. In the epic, Alighieri creates his own structure of Hell and names a protagonist after himself, Dante. Dante experiences all the horrors of Hell with his guide Virgil, who is portrayed as the symbol of human reason. This is not only…

In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Alighieri describes many punishments due to sin. Although this purpose might upset modern readers who do not think of themselves as sinners, Alighieri’s audience, however, believed the greater the sin, the greater the grace would be. Fully aware of their sins, the audience saw God’s overwhelming love manifested through the mercy of forgiveness, so they could have hope in the midst of the bleakness of sin. When reading Inferno, the reader must also remember that the…

Edwards’ style in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is more effective than Hawthorne's. His theme is telling us about how man is sinning all the time and how God is being provoked about that. He’s saying this with a very fearful and aggressive style. In both “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Edwards and “The Minister's Black Veil” by Hawthorne has sinners in it. They’re both similar because everyone is always sinning. It doesn’t matter if they have on a Black Veil or they are in…

course of history, women’s rights have continued to be taken away throughout literature. This trend is clearly visible throughout The Inferno, written in fourteenth century Florentine Italy. Women are, in some cases completely excluded from The Inferno, as is made evident in the relatively excluded character of Beatrice. Female characters involved in Dante’s Inferno, are first seen as punished as well with the lustful in the form of Francesca da Rimini. Women are also seen as monsters in some…

First of all the "Beowulf " poem from The Norton Anthology of World Literature, in the section of "the Hero Comes to Heorot" Beowulf said " They had seen me blotered in the blood of enemies / when I battled and bound five beasts, / raided a troll-nest and in the night-sea slaughtered sea-brutes."(419-22 900) to King Hrothgar when he asked for a permission to fight Grendel in behalf of Danish people. From this line the reader could see the true character of the Beowulf ,a fearsome warrior who…

Literary Analysis: Dante’s Inferno The first Canto in Dante’s Inferno, sets the whole poem in motion, giving us an immediate look into the vivid descriptions of Hell through the eyes of Dante the pilgrim. Not only do we ‘see’ that which is happening through his journey, but we also begin to feel Dante’s emotions as well; his hope in seeing the sunlight over the mountaintop and then his fear of the unknown- the beasts who block his path to hope and salvation. At the beginning of this poem,…

In the 1st circle of hell, the pilgrim come across famous poets and writers, these shades of condemned are in limbo, for they are not Christians nor follow the Christian as faith as they should per the Catholics believes of the writer. Hence, when the pilgrim sees this shades as the writer sees them, he feels more admiration and reverence for his feeling for those in limbo are of respect. Quote “And right before us on the lustrous green the mighty shades were pointed out to me (my heart felt…

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a 14th century novel composed of different ideas of justice for crimes. The story takes place in hell which is a funnel-shaped and composed of nine unique circles (49). Each circle is created for punishment for a particular sin, and as an individual goes higher, the punishment becomes worse (49). After reading the story, readers realize that there is a tremendous difference in justice for crimes during the 14th century and justice for crimes today in the 20th…