poem Divine Comedy. Inferno is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell‚ guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem‚ Hell is described as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically‚ the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God‚ with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Because Dante is an educated Christian‚ he uses mythological references to make Hell visually appealing. Dante is guided By Virgil because he believes Virgil
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created the world and cares about the behavior and beliefs of human beings. The similarities are on Judgment Day is when God will judge all people. Christians/Muslims go to heaven and all others go to hell. During resurrection Christians/Muslims go to heaven to eternal life in heaven and others to hell. Afterlife is often referred to as life after death. In which an essential parts of someone’s identity resides after death. People believe afterlife awaits people when they die. Resurrection concept
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Robyn was the only character with strong religious beliefs that we know of. Her religion is Christianity. Robyn was the only one out of her group of friends to understand the reasons behind the invasion. While sitting in Hell‚ the group
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love‚ power‚ wealth. Means this world should not be neglected. 3. Strong determination / Strength of mind – means that the mind plays a role like queen of chess in our life. It is our strength of mind or our attitude that can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell. # Satan-a renaissance character- All these features of classicism are clearly visible in Satan also. The ideology of Individualism or Humanism comes from the classical Greek literature. It talks about that man should be free‚ liberal
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It was to preach to his audience about the horrors of hell‚ the dangers and horrors of sin‚ and the terrors of being lost‚ sometimes without knowing it. Jonathan Edwards urges everyone who do not follow God`s call to receive to forgiveness. He wanted everyone to respect and follow God‚ or God will show no
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what he intended to be understood when writing his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry God." He makes the audience of the eighteenth century grasp onto their chairs and look away in fear of the sight or sound of hell. He wants to make sure the audience is aware of heaven and hell‚ so they may achieve the "right one." Edwards scares the audience to believe that God can do away with them at any second. He uses dramatic comparisons to show the wrath of God. To make people turn from their
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Canto V Analysis SUMMARY Dante and Virgil have just left limbo‚ the first circle of hell‚ and are now on their way into the second circle of hell‚ where hell really begins. It is here that Dante first witnesses the punishment brought upon the sinners. They encounter Minos‚ the beast-judge who blocks the way into the second circle. He examines each soul as they pass through and determines which circle of hell they must go to by winding his tail around himself. Minos warns Dante of passing through
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Argenti‚ a member of the condemned‚ deals with Dante’s response to Argenti’s place in hell‚ his disdain for Argenti‚ and his symbolic rejection of sin by his actions. Dante has no sympathy towards Argenti even though Argenti is condemned to stay in the slimy River of Styx until the Judgment. Dante holds great animosity towards Argenti carried on from conflicts they have had in life to the putrid circles of hell. The hostility Dante demonstrates marks his progression in his journey of purification
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said to be a thin line between the planning and the execution a sinister action‚ as the idea is what first drives the motion. This is the central theme of T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Hollow Men‚" in which the men depicted find themselves on the brink of hell‚ suffering not from their actions‚ but from their conspiracy to act. Throughout the poem‚ it appears that the men feel that they have done nothing wrong. The title itself‚ "The Hollow Men‚" indicates that perhaps there is nothing to these men at
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during the battle with Grendel’s mother portray contrasting themes of heaven and hell. In contrast of one another‚ the two translations differ in location during the battle with Grendel’s mother. While Seamus Heaney’s translation sets the scene in “a frost stiffened wood” (Heaney 1362)‚ Burton Raffel locates the mother’s lair “in a cold and murky lake” (Raffel 398). The diversity in location is reminiscent of heaven and hell. One
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