those in other levels of hell except for their own. Canto III and IV -First circle of hell-limbo-virtuous but un baptized -punishment=no hope and ever longing for god -poets/philosophers/etc -Homer‚ Socrates‚ (live in a castle that has light because Dante put poets in high regard) Canto V -Minos is a monster that judges which level of hell a sinner goes. Coils his tail as many times as the level of hell that he want the sinner to go to. -Second level of hell: Lustful/Carnal sinners:
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Dante and Paradise Lost by Milton‚ were written about the biblical hell and its keeper: Satan. Both of these authors had different views about the hell and Satan. In Paradis Lost‚ Milton wrote that Satan used to be an angel of God. The devil believed that he was equal to the Lord and he wanted to be greater than him. For this‚ God banished him to hell. Milton ’s physical description of Satan is interesting. Since he used to be an angel‚ he still had wings‚ his eyes were blazed and he had a scaly skin
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only in the backdrop and in the ends that these characters meet. Once the similarities between Satan and Mr. Kurtz start‚ they never seem to end. It’s as though Conrad clicked copy and paste and saved the image under a new file name. Both began as angels of their world‚ Satan as Lucifer aspiring to dethrone God and become the ultimate power himself‚ and Kurtz as a genius of his society‚ being remembered as a prominent musician‚ politician‚ and humanitarian. But we all know that both Satan and Kurtz
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Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a story about an adventure into Hell with Dante and Virgil. Afterlife is when people live in Heaven or Hell after they have died. Hell is a place where the bad go and get punished in many different ways. Dante’s view of the afterlife is much different than today’s view of afterlife. A sin is when you commit an illegal act in the eyes of God. It’s a violation of God and the ten commandments. When you arrive to Hhell you are given a specific area where you go‚ and depending
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Stairway to Heaven‚ originally titled A Matter of Life and Death‚ captures a distant interpretation of traditional views of Heaven‚ Hell‚ and Judgment. The directors do this by reshaping standard images of Heaven‚ eliminating Hell and restructuring Judgment. All together this created a vastly different afterlife than was constructed by classic artists such as Dante‚ and Michelangelo. Death is uniquely contradictory in Stairway to Heaven. Death seems to
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Dante’s Divine Comedy is the tale of one man’s spiritual journey in the quest for salvation. He enters the Gates of Hell‚ descends to the bowls of the earth where he encounters Satan‚ and eventually is able to ascend through Purgatory. His journey culminates with his contemplation of the Mystic Rose. Dante’s description of his journey to Hell is as gruesome as his depiction of its master. As ugly as he once was beautiful‚ Satan is depicted as a huge‚ hideous dragon-like beast‚ with a shaggy
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The Devil Lurks in the Psyche The relatable affect the devil in “Paradise Lost” has on the psyche makes him a more effective villain than the three monsters in “Beowulf”. Both epic tales culminate into a battle where the rulers‚ God and Hrothgar‚ call upon the heroes‚ Christ and Beowulf‚ to defeat the villains‚ the devil and the monsters. Each epic merges Christian and traditional elements of the tales that include kings‚ heroes‚ villains‚ honor and loyalty. “Beowulf” was not available during
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to make magic with a book they have stolen from Faustus. In the beginning angels visit Faustus‚ and each time he wonders whether or not to repent‚ but the devil appears and warns him not too by tempting him of magic to posses. In the end of the play the two good and evil angels have been replaced by an old man‚ who urges Faustus to repent? But it is to late for and the play ends with the devil carrying him off the hell. The main reason why I picked this critical approach is because this
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disastrous. Some Christians believe that god banished the arch angel Lucifer from heaven because he was questioning God’s work. This story of the devils origin is not found in the bible‚ but in other religious books called the Apocrypha‚ which are not thought to be suitable to include the Bible. The story says that Lucifer was an angel that refused to bow down to the first human God created‚ so God threw Lucifer out of heaven and he fell to hell where he resides as the Devil. The quote “you choose to become
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Through this book‚ the author Scot McKnight uses his knowledge of the Christian faith to explain the plan that God has put in place of every person on earth. Throughout his book‚ McKnight gives many important insights into the power of the Holy Spirit and how it interacts with daily life‚ explaining the multipart system of possible alternative options for every single person that ever has or ever will exist. This book offers the reader the chance to interpret the words of a McKnight‚ as he teaches
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