his hatred of his sister and grandmother he will go to hell. He gets this idea of going to hell from a lady named Ryan who meets with Jackie and his classmates after school. " an old woman called Ryan wore a black cloak and bonnet came every day to school at three o’clock when we should have been going home‚ and talked to us of hell." When Jackie learns about hell‚ and the reasons people are sent there‚ he fears he will be damned to hell too. Jackie feels bad about his behavior and thinks he
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one from being condemned to Hell. Edwards appealed to his followers’ fear as a way of guiding his flock towards what he saw as the correct principles of Christian faith; the intensely terrifying metaphors of the sermon were his trademark. He bases his sermon from Deuteronomy 32:35 "Their foot shall slide in due time" (NAAL 425)‚ which equates in layman terms as “give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.” The quote suggests the idea of a spiral into Hell‚ setting the mood for the dark
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several literary artists have tried to explore different perceptions with an aim of making people understand the origin of the universe and all its contents as well as the concept of Satan and hell. Besides‚ religious teachings‚ there seems a lot of controversy and confusing explanations surrounding the heaven and hell. Two poems‚ The Tyger Lamb which was written by William Blake‚ try to explore the origin of the universe with biblical allusion of the physical world while Macbeth‚ a play written by Williams
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references to the real world. Shakespeare uses the scene of the Porter to dramatize the fall of Macbeth and his household by comparing it to hell. When describing the house of Macbeth‚ it is written‚ “This place is too cold for hell” (2. 3. 14-15). The
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place in Hell According to Dante‚ Hell is broken down into nine circles. Each circle would represent a punishment according to their sin and would be more evil as you draw near towards the last circle. If Dante were to travel in Hell again‚ he would most likely encounter Angelina Jolie. Although she is looked upon as a celebrity with a humanitarian heart‚ the sins that she have committed would not be acceptable in God’s eyes. Despite her humanitarian heart‚ she is likely to go to hell. Despite
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represented by his life long love Beatrice. This ideal and its representation in Beatrice are contrasted with the dark depictions of women‚ their sexual sins‚ devious devices‚ and evil act‚ which Dante encounters in hell. This paper will argue that the severity of condemnation in hell for women’s sexual sins is related to the increasing degrees of deceit. Dante’s perspective of the evil side of femininity becomes apparent from the opening of the inferno. Dante‚ in midlife‚ strays from his path
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Dante descends to lower circles‚ we see that the punishments get worse and worse‚ so that more severe punishments are made to correspond to more morally despicable sins. In all cases‚ it is the sins of a person that place that person at each level of Hell. Each particular punishment is then chosen to reflect the nature of the
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Immortality Views among Different Cultures and Religions The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual’s beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu‚ "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on
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his own views of the politics of the late thirteenth-century Florence as he was writing The Divine Comedy. As a result‚ The Divine Comedy is somewhat of an autobiographical work of Dante Alighieri’s own life. In the Inferno‚ Dante is lead through Hell by Virgil with hopes of getting to Heaven to see his beloved‚ Beatrice. It was Beatrice‚ along with two other holy women‚ who sent Virgil to guide
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Brent Fairchild Professor Wilkie Humanities 220 4/25/13 Dante’s Inferno Essay The way that Dante portrays Hell in the Inferno is very specific and filled with loads of lots of imagery. The book uses lots of figurative language‚ while being complimented with the very intricate descriptions of the physical world. The logic of the structure of Hell‚ as well as the nature of God’s action for placing people there for their crimes‚ shows Dante’s great imagination. Dante’s work is not anything of
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