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Thursday 14 March 2013

Depiction Of Hell In Dantes Inferno

Ileah Glenn
ENG 2110 M&W 3pm
Dr. Voss

Dantes Inferno chronicles a strange pilgrimage through hell, seeming familiar at times just now shocking at others. As an American and a Christian, I think that my opinion on this could be crafted from my religion and our society, oddly its media. In my mind Ive depicted hell as this place of immense torment bestowed on all sinners.

My creed has taught me that those who sin go to hell to be punished. Dantes adventure intelligibly shows that the souls of hell are punished, as I thought. Punishments range from liveliness in filth to painful tortures. Dante expands his idea of hell creation made up of carrousels that descend based on sin. darn this idea makes sense, I have never been exposed to that thought. This thought creates constant surprises and extremely interesting imagery. My view of hell was this burn down hole where all the souls of sinners kind of dwell to matureher. I essentially felt that a sin is a sin. This is probably because it was instilled in me somewhere in my childhood. Now I feel that this circle idea is a better one, possibly more just.

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The construct of placing sins in a hierarchy also surprise me as I followed Dante deeper and deeper into the Inferno. The first few circles seemed plausible to me, but the beliefs in the later circles, such as traitors deserving to be high up than those who are lurid to people, caught me by surprise. Killing another(prenominal) human has always been something that I feel is a swell sin, but it seemed like traitors belittled it. In life the violent ones are punished harder, so maybe thats why it surprised me. (You may want to be careful here. Even in the US up until the 1900s treason was an offense punishable by death) What also stunned me was the placement of Judas in the same club as Brutus and Cassius. The latter two betrayed Caesar, who to my knowledge is very...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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