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    When asked to describe hell, the phrases “eternal damnation,” “a place of unquenchable fire,” and “a place of hopelessness” often come to mind. No matter your culture, beliefs, or religion, hell is universally painted as an endless pit of infernal darkness that is the destination for society’s undesirables and unwanted. In short, hell would not be a pleasant place to take a vacation to. In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s controversial 1963 novel, the main character Esther Greenwood experiences what

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    A Living Hell Finally, finished another gloomy day of school. Carrying a heavy load of books on my aching shoulders, I started walking towards that same green, old gate as quickly as possible, attempting to avoid anyone, anyone, especially Mike and his brain-dead crew. It’s not far now. I left class early, hoping they wouldn’t– “OI, Terrorist!” Too late. I could hear their ignorant voices getting closer, as their footsteps on the school asphalt were getting louder. I should have known this was

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    Living Hell by Catherine Jinks is a book about 17 year old Cheney who lives on a spaceship named Plexus. Plexus is heading towards a radiation belt and Firminus the captain has to turn the spacecraft around to avoid it. But they run into something much worse that kills. Cheney lives on a ship called Plexus which is harbouring the last humans alive to find a new habitable planet since Earth is ruined. The Plexus is heading straight towards a radiation belt and they must find a way to avoid it. The

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    More tragically then dying in each other's arms, they survive to go on living a hellish life. The setting of this novel promotes each character's loneliness. It took place in a small New England town in the dead of winter. The winter season drains the life out of plants, buries the houses in snow, and creates and morbid

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    The car went sideways down the street, sliding end around end, tires squealing and spinning, trying to find an inkling of exposed concrete so they could reclaim their rubbery grip from the ice that had slathered itself over our small rural town. Hoping to end this impromptu winter carousel ride, dad maniacally spun the steering wheel like some possessed pirate spinning the helm of a galley; countering the direction in which the car was sliding. All the while, the string of vulgarities spewing from

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    His tragedies will forever be a living hell. The supernatural force brings Robert Walton and Victor together. Victor is given another chance to create a balance in the order, near his death Victor meets Robert Walton, a man who has the same passion and pursuit for scientific discovery Victor

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    Dante Alighieri’s literature piece ‘The inferno’ is an allegorical material through which the author pictures the life after death for sinners. Through episodes of hell, different sinners are exposed to punishment in regard to the sins they c omitted. Dante featured nine different circles of hell, where each circle represents a certain category of sinners receiving their punishment. The second circle is comprised of those people who committed the sins of lust, and are undergoing their punishment

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    structure of Hell which is shown as nine circles of anguish. Hell is a place of punishment for those who intentionally chose the sinful way of life, where Heaven is a place of recompense for those who purposefully chose the virtuous way. Before entering the first circle of Hell, where people have committed a specific sin, there must be a place for those who neither chose a side of righteousness or wickedness. Dante created a vestibule of Hell, a circle of Hell that precedes the first circle of Hell, Limbo

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    Depictions of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy in the Sculptural Motivations of Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell. The primary motivation for Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell are based on the desire to interpret Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy through amore individual response to the text. Rodin avoided a traditional interpretation of Dante’s narrative by creating his own form of chaotic view of hell through a modern 19th century perspective. During this the middle to late 19th century, Rodin sought shift

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    In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis provides an allegorical description of a dreamers journey from hell to heaven. The Narrator of the book takes a journey on a bus from the grey town, hell, to just outside of heaven. While he is making this trip from the grey town to heaven, he converses with some of his fellow travelers. These travelers are all different, yet all have the mindset of not being able to leave the darkness of the grey town and go to the joy that is heaven. Through his talent in story-telling

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