Hell

Creative Writing: Inn From Hell It all started on a dark a stormy night just outside of the Paris city limits at about 11:00 P.M. when Doctor Bleed and his assistant checked into the old run down inn. You see the weather was so bad that they could not even make it all the way over to Spain so they had to stop. They walked in with their clothes soaked from the rainfall, when they first walked in they realized that there was nobody at the desk to wait on them so they just took it upon themselves

characteristics of Hell. Some people believe that Hell is hot and fiery while others believe Hell is cold and frozen over. Although numerous people believe that Hell is fiery because many religious texts describe Hell as that, Hell is frozen because it provides a fair punishment, it surprises the readers, and it represents being far from God. To begin, Hell is cold because it gives a fair punishment. Sinners who have betrayed their masters or other people close to them go to the ninth circle of Hell. The sinners

HELL, WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW The subject of Hell is a subject that turns many people off to organized religion today. After all, who wants to spend their Sunday mornings listening to a preacher rant and rave about the “Hell fire and brimstone” of Hell or “burning in Hell” or if you don’t change your ways you will spend eternity in Hell. Most want to be entertained and walk out of church feeling all warm and fuzzy. Therefore, clergy mostly ignore the subject or gloss over it even though they believe

Dante's The Divine Comedy - Heaven and Hell Where does a person who commits a heinous sin go? Where does a person who did legitimate things and prays all his life go? This is what distinguishes hell and heaven. Hell is to people, what school is to students, a place where souls of all morals, good or bad, were consigned after death. This is the place of punishment of Satan and the other fallen angels and of all mortals who die unrepentant of serious sin. On the contrary, heaven is to people, what

At one point, or another you might have asked yourself, “What in the Hell, is Hell?” Well According to Dante Alighieri’s’ epic poem, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Hell is where those that have sinned are punished, but the punishments for each sin depends on the sin committed. The reasoning for this is, because God is just with his punishment, and Dante created a visual of these punishments for his readers so they can get an idea of what specifically is in store for them if they do certain sins. With

whether it be heaven or hell. Realistically though, is there a literal heaven and hell, and if so what will it be like? Assuming there is a heaven and a hell, if one asks a multitude of people what they believe the afterlife will be, some will say heaven will be a room full of white lights with a golden gate and peaceful vibes, and when referring to hell many will say it’s a dark room full of anger and pain. Therefore, assuming that there is a physical Heaven and Hell countless hours of research

down so low with fear that seized me at the sight of her” (53). In order to return to the light and escape the beast, Dante must face the nine stages of hell that are filled with different types of sinners. Dante fears going through hell, but with the help of an old love, Beatrice, and the voice of reason, Virgil, Dante passes through the stages of hell. During his journey Dante realizes he recognizes certain people there and finds out that he will spend much of his own afterlife in purgatory. The most

Explaining and Discussing Dante’s Vision of Hell in The Inferno Dante’s explanation of Hell has fascinated many individuals by the way it is explained, and more than likely made many use their mind and overthink it. When readers confront The Inferno, they might be surprised or blown minded by the way Dante explains what he went through. Many people after reading this might have changed their way of thinking of Hell because of Dante’s lecture, or maybe some still thought the same. Not everyone

Hell. The word conjures up a familiar image of a fiery landscape, a nightmare vision where tortured souls suffer in endless, unspeakable torment, and where Satan commands an army of demons to unleash infinite pain across multitudes of sinners. This picture, etched deeply as it is in the minds of over two billion Christians worldwide, mainly stems from the late Rabbinical Judaism view of hell, Gehenna. Dante’s epic poem, Inferno, builds on Gehenna, with an elaborate underground society devoted

place after a busload of souls from Hell are taken on a ride to Heaven, where they are a given a chance to explore the greatness that is there, then decide whether or not they want to stay there or return to Hell. What the reader will be surprised to find out is that most of these souls that Lewis refers to as “Ghosts,” choose to return to Hell instead of stay in Heaven. As George MacDonald, explained to the narrator in chapter nine, “The “damned” remain in Hell because they are too closed-minded: