The Fiery Inferno - Original Writing

Dante Alighieri must have been an extremely strict and lecture-loving parent. In the first part of his collection, The Inferno, Alighieri filled his story with subliminal messages within the text to teach a greater lesson to the reader. Dante Alighieri purposefully chooses specific moments to express humankind’s weakness and how human reason can positively influence people to react in the correct manner in the eyes of God. Through the interaction of two of his main characters, Dante, who represents mortality; and Virgil, who symbolizes sensibility; Alighieri is able to provide insight and guidance to the character of Dante in the story and more significantly, to the people reading it. Within this passage, Dante projects a common human quality of wanting to give up in the face of struggle. As Dante becomes too tired from escaping from his journey into the 7th Bolgia and begs Virgil to stop and rest for a minute, Virgil strictly chastises Dante that if he ever wants to achieve fame in his life, he must never give up his goals. In such a simple situation lies a grander message. Here, Dante represents the limitations of humans in the form of his exhaustion and Virgil’s response of both sternness and compassion reflects the logic and the understanding qualities of human reason. In The Inferno, Dante Alighieri uses the physical relationship between Dante and Virgil to illustrate the allegorical connection showing how human reason directly guides the decisions of the flawed human

“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever” Keri Russell. The Yukon is a treacherous place. It was for the man in this story to. He did not know the land. All he had to follow was a little trail made from sled dogs. The mood of the man could of been different. If the man would of followed his instincts a little better, he would still be with us today. The setting that the man was in was cold. It was colder than 50 degrees below zero he should've never been out there in the first place. How setting and mood in “To Build a Fire” affect the story’s meaning.

Inferno, written by Dante Alighieri illustrates the idea of justice through the belief that with each action arise a consequence. What you sin above ground, you deal with under. Through this he gives examples of the sins done and the punishment that is inflicted from doing such thing as a disgrace to God. All through Dantes imagination and his views as to how it should be done, there is a punishment for each area of sin committed which is why a person who bribes will be in the further in the level of hell, as compared to someone who has killed an innocent.

After crossing the Phlegethon, Dante the Pilgrim and Virgil cross into a dark forest where there are “no green leaves, but rather black in color, no smooth branches, but twisted and entangled, no fruit, but thorns of poison bloomed instead” (Dante, Inferno 186). The forest is depicted this way to give a picture of the barren nature of suicide. Dante sees the Harpies nesting and tearing at the trees surrounding them, “....in Greek mythology the Harpies are storm-winds which act as ministers of Divine vengeance, mysteriously snatching offenders away out of the visible world” (Dartmouth). The Harpies are a depiction of how those who commit suicide snatch themselves away from the visible world. He hears wails of torment within the woods all around him and Dante is confused by the noise and its origin. He first thinks that the yelling comes from individuals hiding behind the trees, but learns the truth once prompted by Virgil to break a branch. Dante tears off a piece of a “great thornbush.” The emphasis on the size of the bush may be a way to signify the importance of the man entrapped inside it, possibly like Medieval art in which artists stress the importance of a specific character by making it larger (Dartmouth). To Dante’s surprise, blood began to spew out of the branch, and the tree starts to speak directly to the Pilgrim. This tree, named Pier, committed suicide after being accused of treason. Pier continues to swear on “the new roots of this tree” that

In the book fahrenheit 451 they mention burning I think it’s a way of showing how we censor things in this day and age.

Ilan Stavans says that Juan Rulfo’s book, The Plain in Flames, is best represented by the phrase realismo crudo. Stavans defines this phrase as “a type of realism interested in the rawness of life”, meaning that he characterizes Rulfo’s writing as an unfiltered view into the lives of the average Mexican (Stavans, xi). By writing in this style, Rulfo is able to provide “an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape” as stated by Octavio Paz (xv). To create this image, Rulfo broke his story writing the process down into three separate steps. As paraphrased by Ilan Stavans, the first step “is to create a character”, the second step “is to place him in an environment where he might move around” and the third step “is to discover how the character expresses himself” (xiii). Rulfo was able to repeatedly crafted stories that were filled with high levels of realismo crudo by using that special three-step process. By creating his protagonist, crafting an environment for said protagonist, and allowing the character to express themselves within this environment, Rulfo crafted a three-tier image of post-revolutionary life in Mexico that has never been seen before.

Suddenly I gain consciousness. Unable to open my eyes, I feel a cluster of dried sticks poking my back as if I was lying on a bed covered by pins. A constant ringing noise almost blankets the sound of the leaves dancing with the wind around me. With a gentle sigh I allow myself to build enough energy for me to open an eye. My eye began to follow a path towards the only light source it sees, the fire from a wooden torch gripped with my left hand. I open my other eye and began to force my lean body to a kneeling position. The smell of decomposing leaves irritates my nose as I gaze at the identical oak trees surrounding me like a wall of armoured gladiators. Using my wrinkled hands and injured legs I crawl towards

At the start of the poem we find Dante in the dark forest(Inf. 1.2). Not much description is given maybe to show Dante’s disorientation. Whether the disorientation is spiritual, physical, moral or political; that is unclear at the start of the poem. The poem us written this way so reader can identify with Dante. It is also written in such a way that sometimes it is difficult to understand some parts, you sometimes have to read it backwards to get a better understanding.

Actions that a person commits usually have some sort of consequence to follow them. If someone commits a good deed then they are rewarded. On the other hand, if someone commits a bad deed then they are punished. The punishment should reflect the sin in some way for that punishment to be just. Dante and Virgil go on a journey through the underworld and look at each circle. Each circle represents a different sin, and every soul that comes into Hell is told which circle to go to. Each circle also has it's own punishment or punishments. Each punishment in Dante's Inferno is just because each soul that experiences the punishment they deserve can see that eternity would have been easier if they did not commit the sins that they did. The sins and punishments that stick out the most to me are the ones about the gluttons and the wrathful. The souls punished for gluttony are punished in so many different ways and each way fairly reflects their sin. The fairness of the punishment for the souls that were filled with anger on Earth is not as easily seen, but it is the only

I'm chained to the hard stone wall. The chains are digging into my wrists,and ankles. I haven't eaten for months,everyday I waste away. More and more I feel as lf my body is devouring itself. They refuse to feed enough to fully sustain myself but enough for i could fight. I silently laugh at myself,looking down at the rough scars that marred my body. Each scar told a story about the person I killed. I could fully heal the scars but they reminded me of the lives I took. Reminded me that I'm no better than an animal.

The siren woke me up. A sip of smoke slipped through my throat and my eyes. Everything around me was burning by the blazing fire. Through the smoke I was blind. The ominous feeling passed through my body. Running through the fire made my skin stinging but It couldn't make me stop. The only thing that in my mind was to getting out of this place. The grey smoke surrounded me, I saw him and closed my eyes.

In the first circle of hell Dante talks about the "noble castle" otherwise known as the seven-walled castle. The addition added to medieval thinking offers explanations about who was residing at the seven-walled castle. While Dante and Virgil were on this journey, they come to an area full of light. Those who reside here are favored by heaven. Virgil is then welcomed back to his home, where Homer and three great poets also live. All five people accept Dante as one of themselves. They continue on and reach a seven-walled castle. Inside is a green meadow and people who are famous for their deeds. This reveals that Dante believes that people believes there are good people in hell that should be allowed to be in light and favored by heaven for

With the mention of Hell, flames and spankings lick the minds of children, while adults contemplate the evil ratings of their own soul and the uncertainty approaching them. How uncertain should a person be in considering their afterlife? If a grand god randomly flings humans about, dividing them into heaven or hell, or if he chooses favorites, every cause for uncertainty and fear should remain. However, if the determination of a human’s placement into heaven or Hell was not soley the jurisdiction of a higher being, the question raises to what ability humans have in determining their place in the afterlife, and where does the perfect justice of an eternal God intervene? In God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis writes,“It's not a question of God 'sending'

Life is full of difficulty. No one can see what will happen tomorrow. When you're life become successful, other people are envy and they're trying to drag you down ,especially those person have the highest position in politics or the other person who are rich. Like what happen to Edmond Dantes. Most of the time, the person have the power in politics or the one who have the ability to control other, they are the one who is abusive.

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling through the Alaskan Yukon to meet up with his friends for lunch. The author keeps the character nameless and refers to him only as “The Man” which is used to show a connection between humanity and nature. The story shows the hardships the man goes through to get to his destination through the Alaskan Yukon, yet unfortunately doesn’t make it. The conflict is a man versus nature theme which contrasts strong and direct relations of the hardships in nature. Throughout this analysis, I am going to explore the conflict between the man and the merciless nature he has to go through before his death.