Since ancient civilizations people have been trying to explain what goes on after death. Throughout history‚ many cultures have had different theories about what happens. Two distinguished ideas of where people go after death are the underworld and Hell. The idea of the underworld came from the Greeks and Romans. A few famous works by the Greeks and Romans that talk about the underworld are The Iliad‚ The Aeneid‚ and‚ The Odyssey. A famous work that discusses Hell is Dante’s Inferno. Hell is an accepted
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Though the title of Eliot’s poem‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" leads the reader to believe it will be a sweet poem‚ the juxtaposition of the epigraph right after the title deeply contrasts the initial thought. It is from Dante’s Inferno and explores the suffering and uncertainty in Prufrock. Translated‚ the epigraph is Guido de Montefeltro confessing his sins to Dante assuming that he‚ like all others‚ will not be able to escape the depth‚ the depth being Hell‚ and therefore not be able
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Themes of Dante’s Inferno Dante’s Inferno exemplifies a Hell in which God’s justice is just as perfect as everything else he does. Each division of Hell along with the punishments within them seem to directly correspond to the sins man had commited on Earth. The punishments also become exceedingly more horrible the deeper one finds himself in Hell. As the story progresses‚ however‚ the character becomes less and less inclined toward pity‚ as he discovers that sinners receive punishment in perfect
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The Woods Dante’s Inferno opens in the setting on Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante
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This quarter in the course of IGE 121- Rationalism‚ Revelation‚ and Enlightenment: The Ancient World there has been a bundle of material covering the themes of death‚ suffering‚ fate‚ destiny‚ and good and evil. Three out of the various readings that cover death and suffering would be the “Book of Matthew”‚ the Greek tragedy “Antigone” and the “Book of Job”. A reading of this quarter that reveals suffering are “Prometheus Bound” and the “Book of Matthew”. An additional text that discloses one of
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Elizabeth Mitchell Mrs. Smith 10th Grade World Literature December 1‚ 2011 Necessary Measures Some people do not always agree with the law. When a law is broken‚ only a certain group of people have a say in what the punishment of the crime will be. In Dante’s‚ The Inferno‚ Dante places certain people in levels of hell depending on the crime they committed. Murder is a crime that deserves a harsh punishment. Dante places murderers
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The beginning of the book The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis was difficult to understand and hard to figure out‚ but as you read on‚ you come to find out that this book is about heaven and hell and the people that go there. The narrator who is the main character in the book tells the story on what he sees from his eyes. The author describes hell as a dark cold town with alleys that people live in and no one to be seen on the streets‚ and heaven as this place that looks beautiful with green grass‚ mountains
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The Meaning of Life Through Death Dante’s Inferno represents a soul’s journey towards God and the struggle between doing what is morally right as opposed to fulfilling one’s desires. Dante confronts many characters who have done wrong in their life to end up in Hell. Some of these sinners are in Hell because of their sin of violence‚ either towards themselves or others; or their sin of fraud‚ either by being a hypocrite or committing theft. As a result of his journey through Hell‚ Dante realizes
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The author of Daniel affirms that a reawakening will take place. And when it does‚ some will awaken to everlasting life‚ and some will be damned to “shame and everlasting contempt”. The New Testaments offers more insight to the nature of hell. Matthew 25:31-46 provides a distinct passage on the infinite disposition of hell and eternal life by sharing an account that if the individuals in the given scenario knew Christ‚ then they will acquire eternal life. However‚ those who do not know Jesus will
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There is no more darkness. A gigantic sun floated above “Rubare’s” dry and yellow atmosphere‚ Vendetta’s fifth stage‚ drastically burning the skin off it’s victims. The only way to survive was by owning an item of clothing. In this stage‚ huge scorpions constantly stole their clothes making them live in an environment of insecurity. As soon as I saw the blazing sphere floating on top of a scorpions head‚ I didn’t hesitate. I just ran. One of the biggest sins a human being could ever commit is
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