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    The word Hell‚ or in Italian‚ Inferno means the abode of Satan and the forces of evil. It is where sinners suffer eternal punishment. Dante was exiled by Pope Boniface‚ which led him to write this poem‚ Dante’s Inferno. He wrote the poem because he was exiled and he had nothing left in his life‚ so he just wrote to express that he was betrayed by his own country‚ not him betraying his country. Since he was betrayed by his own country‚ he became a nomad and has been a beggar ever since. A modern

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    Cultural and Literary Analysis Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is an example of a piece of literature that changed the way people saw things at the time of it’s publication. Even now‚ this poem is still altering the way people think about Heaven and Hell. This is a very important piece of literature because it explained what happens after death to people during a time when everyone was still trying to decide what to believe. It also includes many aspects of culture such as‚ beliefs about death‚ men

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    without sleeping) in prelude to the gates of hell opening‚ an event that is presumed to occur once a year‚ and is linked to the cosmology of King Yama originating in the Pali Canon. During the period of the gates of hell being opened‚ ghosts of the dead (preta) are presumed to be especially active‚ and thus food-offerings are made to benefit them‚ some of these ghosts having the opportunity to end their period of purgation‚ whereas others are imagined to leave hell temporarily‚ to then return to endure

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    said about to walk away. However‚ Cardin came out of nowhere and knocked Blake and Yang into a closet that they were standing in front of and locked the door. "Ha-ha!" Cardin said laughing while walking away. "This should be interesting." "What the hell?! What ’s going on?!" Blake shouted‚ realizing what happened. "Cardin pushed us and locked us in the closet!" Yang growled out‚ her eyes suddenly red in anger. "When we get out of this closet Cardin‚ we will beat your ass!" *It was small‚ dark‚

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    Jesus and Cicero Essay Sinning is one thing people feel that when people do die‚ they should automatically go to the underworld‚ or hell‚ due to their sinful actions. In the Aeneid‚ book number six‚ Virgil describes a place where these people go when they perish on earth. When these people get to the underworld‚ they are judged by their actions and punished depending on the severity of it. Virgil gives us the idea that there is indeed an afterlife‚ just like Jesus did. But when it came to sinners

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    sense that Duncan’s murder has permanently stained them with blood. She to cannot stop thinking about the blood‚ "Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth is in her own private hell‚ which is a large contrast with her firmness and certainty at the time of Duncan’s murder. Her inability to sleep was predicted in the voice that her husband thought he heard while killing the king - a voice crying out that Macbeth was murdering sleep

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    will you still follow me to the deepest hell as you promised?” Those words were whispered to Harima ears and suddenly he froze‚ well‚ anyone who would have heard those words early in the morning in a room alone would have felt the chills going from the head to the feet’s in one

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    Each of them reveals that they use unfair means to extort money from their victims and agree to enter into a partnership. After exchanging information‚ the summoner asked about the man’s name. The man reveals that he is “a devil‚ and his abode is hell.” The convener is an agreement to join forces with this man‚ and even though the demon is really a devil‚ he (the summoner) will honor their word. The two seal the deal and start your journey. The convener and the demon come near a farmer whose

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    be from this figurative hell that he works in. “And he opened the coffins & set them all free.” (line 14) Blake emphasizes the agony that the boy goes through working as a chimney sweep. The boy has so much agony that he actually looks forward to the day he dies instead of living his life. The Boy’s job is symbolic of hell because he works where the smoke from fire escapes. Fire is a representative of hell and this aspect adds contrast of how he went from working in “hell” in the first poem to going

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    each circle of Dantes inferno limbo Dante’s First Circle of Hell is resided by virtuous non-Christians and unbaptized pagans who are punished with eternity in an inferior form of Heaven. They live in a castle with seven gates which symbolize the seven virtues. Here‚ Dante sees many prominent people from classical antiquity such as Homer‚ Socrates‚ Aristotle‚ Cicero‚ Hippocrates and Julius Caesar. second circle In the Second Circle of Hell‚ Dante and his companion Virgil find people who were overcome

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