Living hell

Eden. Milton’s poem is written from the point of view of Satan and in such a way that he appears to be the heroic figure of the tale. Satan is given lines to uplift the demons of hell, seeming to empower them and as he sets off to derail the lives of Adam and Eve, the insight the

Have you ever questioned what things are you doing wrong in life ? Could it lead you to hell ? If yes, Dante can tell you how you will be punished in his poem Dante’s Inferno. If in your living life you are not doing so hot as far as divine rights, Dante has a few opinions on what level of hell you are going to and how you will be punished. If you have read Dante’s Inferno, different sins have different punishments. Dante uses symbolic retribution in his poem “Dante’s Inferno” to do the following:

Hell is a mental state, not a physical place. The author of No Exit, Sartre, believed that Hell is what your thoughts make it. People could create their own Hell. The saying “Hell is other people!” fits perfectly with his ideas. If people can create their own Hell, that means they could create their own Heaven or sanctuary. People’s choices leads to what their concept of Hell and Heaven is. Garcin from No Exit abused his wife when he lived so in Hell, he was imprisoned with two women: one being

doubt that inferno is talking about the world of hell, which looks like Virgil’s Aeneid. In people’s mind, the under-earth world always seems dark and terrified. They also believe that most evil souls who do horrible and immoral things will go to hell after they die. Hell is the place that no people want to go to talk about. However, in Dante’s poem, hell is his first journey. He cannot avoid it to approach haven. Dante shows many vivid images of hell to readers and lead the readers to go through the

happens after death. Muslims and Christians similarly believe that, after death, souls go to either heaven or hell. However, the two religions have different ideas about what will happen once the soul is presented before God on the day of Judgment. To Christians, death is a transit from earthly life to God. Many of them think of the soul as an immortal entity within us that goes on living after death. Christians think that by dying, it corrupts the body, but the soul survives (Cummins, 1991). There

through Limbo, Hell and purgatory to eventually to reach Heaven. Written through the perspective of Dante Alighieri (the poet), this book represents his life and personal bias through the lenses of many allegories. Before starting his journey, Dante is accompanied by Virgil, a famously known poet whom Dante looks up with profound respect. Dante the poet writes his version of Hell as 10 different circles and many ditches within, the deeper one goes the worse the sins get in his version of Hell. Through

a lot and each religion will believe completely different things. Two core religions in this essay that will be looked into are Islamic and Catholic. What do they believe will happen when someone dies? Is there another life after they die? Heaven? Hell? Or Paradise? Through this you will the importance in the belief of life after death, and the practices, rituals, and prayers that provide evidence and physical proof of how they show this belief. Then to go onto to discuss the wider implications holding

Based on Dante’s standards and how I have been living my life thus far, the place for me in Hell is in Limbo, the first level of Hell for “Virtuous Pagans”. In other words, I am a good person and live a life of virtue; however, because I do not practice any religion, I do not deserve a place in heaven, and will therefore join the ranks of the great poets and philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, Homer, and Virgil, the representation of Dante’s human reason and an important character in The Inferno

will not die and after life on earth, it will either go to heaven or hell. Some believe heaven is a place where you are re-united with friends and family and live with them and God and hell a place where you are made to suffer and inflicted with pain. Other Christians believe heaven and hell to simply be states of mind. In heaven you are happy and living with God. Whereas in hell you are unhappy and living without god. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He

journey to The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. He grows from a person who has fallen off the right path of God to a person who now feels connected with God. Dante has to travel through Hell and Purgatory to reach Paradiso and become cleansed of his sins. Virgil is going to guide Dante through the nine circles of Hell where they will observe the harrowing punishments that the sinners have brought upon themselves. Starting in the first circle of The Inferno, Dante finds himself lost in the dark woods