How Does Joyce Create A Figurative Language In Hell

Second, in his essay about Hell, Joyce uses intensive imagery to create a scenery of Hell. Imagery is the figurative language that is most prominent in this passage. Without it, describing what hell looks like is useless. For example, in paragraph six, Joyce gives a description of the sensation of hellfire. He states “Every sense of the flesh is tortured eternally and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness, the nose noisome odor, the ears with yells, howls, and execrations, the taste with foul matter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filth, the touch of red-hot goads and spikes, with cruel tongues of flame” (297). Joyce creates the perfect scene of what hellfire does to you. He touches every