Living hell

or hell, paradiso or inferno. Here, I will discuss the similarities and differences in the hell represented in the movie What Dreams May Come and the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. What Dreams May Come is a movie about two soul mates, Chris (Robin Williams) and Annie (Anabella Sciorra). After Chris' death in a car accident coupled with the death of her two children four years earlier, Annie commits suicide. While Chris has gone to heaven and discovered that his heaven is living in a

Dante the Pilgrim who visited the hell and saw how sinners was punished horribly followed by God’s will with his own eye. God’s intention of building such a hell seemed obvious to us, it’s a place to punish the ones who failed to listen to the instructions of God and live fairly. I shared different idea. In my opinion, Hell was built based on God’s love in Dante’s ‘Inferno’. The idea of Hell was built based on God’s love first appeared on the description of Gates of Hell, where existed a inscription

wrong use of his new-given knowledge. He does not use it for good works or send in name for to it to anything that benefits mankind. His last unending punishment not only results from the very wrong acts that he made oneself responsible throughout his living, nor his written agreement with the Satan, but rather his pleasurably feel is feeling that condemns him to endless bad, unhappy place. Again, this emphasizes how his unending punishment results from his own personal selections made by his own free

grotesque picture of hell that, by itself, would suffice as a warning to the reader. On the other hand, allegorical meanings are used to persuade his readers about the nature of hell and its relation to the journey of life. The paranetic function of hell lies in Dante’s comparison of the journey through hell to the journey of life, admonishing his readers to approach God by first humbly understanding sin and learning to hate it. By writing the Divine Comedy he wished to “”"remove those living in this life

was much more than just a journey through hell. Readers were able to take this journey with him as well. Readers got a first hand account of how an average Catholic man from the 14 century experienced hell. This journey was meant to be a lesson learned for all every single reader; this was a wake up call for everyone. Dante’s Inferno accomplished something that no other author had ever done, and that’s portray hell. No living man has ever witnessed hell for himself, yet due to this poem they actually

In Dante’s Inferno, the reader is taken on an epic journey as the narrator and protagonist, Dante, recounts his experiences as he battles through the different stages of Hell. The first book in a trilogy later titled The Divine Comedy, has become iconic and timeless throughout the centuries since it was first published. This is mostly due to Dante’s expert use of literary devices, themes and symbols to explore God, immortality and sin. This literary piece of work is rich in themes. These themes

Of the nine circles of Hell, it has been declared that the first circle (Limbo) is most suitable punishment for my actions. Limbo consists of those who are ‘virtuous non-believers’, or virtuous pagans and unbaptized children. The first level of hell also consists of philosophers and authors, who have been denied entrance to heaven; for example, Caesar, Virgil, Aristotle, Homer, and Socrates. The setting or atmosphere of the circle is sad yet no torment exists. As opposed to other circles, this is

vision of Hell he portraits in the story. Dante’s Inferno is an epic poem about a recounting of Dante and his incredible journey through Hell and its many levels while he is being guided by Virgil. In the story, Hell is shown to have nine levels of suffering depending on what kinds of sin you committed during your life and each circle serves as different forms of punishment. During his journey, Dante starts to understand the soul, God, and Lucifer, as he describes the nine circles of hell being anger

literature, and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem is a story of Dante’s journey through Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. The journey of Dante has three realms of the afterlife, which are started with nine circle of Hell. Base on Dante’s construction, Hell has nine circles arranging from the first circle to the ninth circle which are Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Avarice and Prodigality, Wrath and Sullenness, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. Limbo circle includes those souls who are

In Dante’s Inferno and his levels of hell there are many things that we have in common as a person today’s society. This essay will discuss the issues in Dante’s Inferno and The Divine Comedy that are still true to this day as they were back when Dante wrote this comedy. Some views Dante considers are not the same to everyone, but some views are still apparent in today’s society. With these views being common it can be said that Dante’s views are common for people in today’s society. Many people