Hell

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:

Rewriting the Concept of Hell in Dante's Inferno The idea of making up a "Hell", or inferno, is not an experience in which I, even in my wildest thoughts, had started to imagine. Call me an optimist, but the idea of imagining Hell never appealed to me. However, as I read through the Bible, I have come across many images of hell and will now attempt to create a partial picture. As I sit imagining my inferno, I see that it would be significantly different from Dante’s inferno. I do agree that

Inferno, Dante proposes an intriguing order for his nine circles of hell. Ignoring Limbo, Dante, intending to list the circles from the least grievous sin to the most grievous sin, orders the circles starting from lust, going to gluttony, greed, then wrath. Dante provides a thought provoking experience for the reader causing one to redefine his understanding of sin and God's judgement. After limbo, Dante presents the first circle of hell as the punishment for the lustful. While many, if given the choice

outcome”. Hell on the other hand is having both insanity and pride. In the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre there are three individuals trapped together in hell. Sartre depicts hell as a locked room with three couches. No Exit is one literary exploration of Sartre’s philosophical concepts. This doesn’t represent the traditional portrayal of hell like in Dante’s Inferno. But it doesn’t change the fact that it is still represented as hell. As the three characters try to determine why they are in hell, and

The Buddhist concepts of hell and heaven are completely unlike from that in other religious convictions. Buddhists believe that hell is not eternal, and it is unreasonable to condemn humans to eternal hell for their sins. As a result, Buddhist believe that it is sensible to give man an opportunity to develop himself from hell by doing positive things that can redeem their soul. More specifically, to the Buddhists, hell is a temporary place where people who do evil experience mental and physical suffering

is the dispute over whether Heaven and Hell actually exist and what those popular ideologies entail. While the majority of people agree that Heaven appeases everyone in similar ways, we have considerably more variations of Hell depending on how it’s portrayed by the media. TV shows, movies, and books constantly show suffering as torture and raging flames and unending physical agony. Dante’s epic poetry, The Inferno, contradicts those popular versions of Hell by explaining that souls only suffer in

In the Fourth Ring of the Ninth Circle of Hell, Judecca, Dante is at the end of his hierarchy of sins. When he is here walking around Dante notices that underneath his feet are sinners completely cover in ice which was occasionally several feet deep. As Dante and Virgil continue to walk they grow closer to this figure which they come to find out is Lucifer. Upon seeing the devil, it makes Dante, to an extent, second guess himself if he is alive or dead. It gives you a good description of what the

“What the hell is water?” “This is Water” was originally given as a speech to college students before it was published in essay form. Essayist, David Foster Wallace, in his essay “This is Water”, addresses the importance of awareness and perceptiveness of others. He believes this and the proper education can help you become well-adjusted to the world around you. He adopts a humorous and important tone in order to accomplish his rhetorical purpose. Wallace establishes a humorous tone in the first

Within the nine circles of hell in Dante’s epic poem, Inferno, each circle represents a sin and houses shades who are undergoing a contrapasso, or a retribution that fits the crime. The poem vividly describes each circle of hell while giving the reader’s insight on Dante’s political and religious views. The nine circles are also separated into three parts: incontinent, represented by the she wolf, violent, represented by the lion, and fraudulent, represented by the leopard. These are the three beasts

In the text, The Divine Comedy by Dante, the Inferno focuses on Dante’s personal journey through hell. Throughout Dante’s journey, he goes through the nine circles of hell. Dante was exposed to a lot of things that he’s never encountered such as limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, and much more. These topics of the Inferno all correlate to my life as nursing student. I wouldn’t like to compare something that I am passionate about, however the process of becoming a nurse is very stressful. Dante