autobiographical journey of life through its author‚ Dante Alighieri’s. He basically wrote with the personal purpose of recording where all of the people he came in contact within his life‚ will go when they die. This could be one of three places; Hell‚ Purgatory‚ or Heaven. He went on to design specific‚ fitting punishments or rewards based on each person’s life. Dante then tied this all together and made himself a character that walks the entire length of the abstracted world. Written in the early
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October 21 Inferno Dante’s journey through hell was a lesson well learned. Dante’s setup of hell gave us‚ the readers‚ a great imaginary insight on how Dante structured hell according to the sinner’s sins. In this poem‚ we can see how if a sin is committed‚ your punishment fits your crime. We can also see the way that society was viewed in Dante’s eyes. The society as a whole was strict‚ everything going against God was a sin‚ The structure of how hell was setup can be seen as a relation to the
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What Dreams May Come While vacationing in Switzerland‚ American physician Chris Nielsen meets artist Annie Collins. They are attracted to each other‚ and bond as if they had known each other for a long time. They marry and have two children‚ Ian and Marie. Their idyllic life ends when the children die in a car crash. Life becomes difficult: Annie suffers a mental breakdown and the couple contemplates divorce‚ but they manage through their losses. On the anniversary of the day they decided not
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* Sirat(the bridge):- The pathway to heaven or hell. Those who can cross the bridge will live an eternal happy life in heaven & those who can’t will fall in the never ending pit of fire of hell. Christianity and Life after Death * The resurrection of Jesus proves that there is life after death * After death the spirit returns to God * Some will be resurrected to eternal life at heaven ; some to eternal Punishment at hell * Some Christians believe that a merciful God
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In The Great Divorce‚ the narrator suddenly‚ and inexplicably‚ finds himself in a grim and joyless city (the "grey town"‚ representative of hell). He eventually finds a bus for those who desire an excursion to some other place (and which eventually turns out to be the foothills of heaven). He enters the bus and converses with his fellow passengers as they travel. When the bus reaches its destination‚ the "people" on the bus — including the narrator — gradually realize that they are ghosts. Although
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Jonathan Edwards was a Puritan pastor who gave a sermon about how all unconverted men would go to hell because they are going against God. This sermon was meant for his congregation. His purpose in preaching this sermon was to persuade people to be pure Puritans. He persuades his congregation by talking about how God is the master of everything they do and being an unconverted Puritan would send them to hell‚ which is why Puritans must convert. Edwards’ main point throughout his sermon is that people
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females standing side by side. In greek mythology there was also three fates who allegedly controlled the life of everyone from brith to death. In my opinion‚ Salviati was trying to represent the three fates in his own time period. The Descent into Hell by Jacopo Tintoretto: 1568 This painting by Tintoretto is an oil painting done on a canvas that measures 342 cm by 373 cm. While viewing this image‚ there is a Christ like figure descending from the top left corner towards human like characters that
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Dante showing him the different depths of hell. The Hoopoe is the main character in Attar’s The Conference of the Birds; he leads the rest of the bird on a voyage to find the Simorgh. Virgil and the Hoopoe
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and painful time spent in the lake (I. 220-240‚ p.217): Farewell happy Fields Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors‚ hail Infernal world‚ and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time. The mind is its own place‚ and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell‚ a Hell of Heav’n. (I. 250-255‚ p.217) Taken at face value‚ the speaker renounces his past forever with a “farewell” and is ready to move forward with the new world he now believes
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It happens to everyone. One day you’re trying drugs for the first time‚ Promising it’s the only time you’ll do it. Next thing you know‚ you’re addicted. You can’t get out‚ You’re trapped in this on-going cycle of hell. It happens to everyone. Or at least this is how it happened to me. My name is Kris‚ They call me a miracle. There I was‚ lying on my deathbed‚ No chance of surviving. The doctors told me I only There was so much regret. I kept asking what have I made of my life? I was
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