Divine Liturgy

Dante was going shopping for his very first suit. His mom had gone back to college when Dante was six and now she was graduating. The only thing she had asked for was for Dante to be at the ceremony in a brand new suit. He was so proud of her that he wanted the day to be perfect. Dante's cousin, Jared, picked him up first thing Saturday morning. They drove into downtown and parked right outside of W.J. Simms Clothiers. The windows were adorned with mannequins dressed in all varieties of suits…

It is a nice fall evening and Dante was heading home after a day of work when suddenly there is a loud boom, then the sky turned blood red and clouds became alarmingly dark. Out of nowhere his car stopped and when it did you could hear the screams of people. When he turned around he saw it the portal spitting out demon like creatures. Then he realizes that they are actually demons and starts running home. When he gets home he sees a gruesome murder scene. he sees his wife and two children dead…

Human beings have a tendency to succumb to temptation. We tend to lose ourselves into the desire of temporary fulfillment against our own reason. In Dante's Inferno, Dante discusses the circles of Hell and the sinners that must face eternal condemnation there. The way they lived on Earth determines the condition of their souls. Throughout this story, Dante uses vivid imagery to depict the severity and consequences of sins. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri shows us how the sinners face harsh…

when having a casual conversation. It falls under the same taboo topics as religion, and politics. So instead, Dante Aligheri decided to write a poem about his perceived vision of the afterlife: inferno, purgatorio, and paradisio. Dante wrote his Divine Comedy when the Church was both the governmental and religious leader of the people, thus a reader can expect Dante’s work to reflect the religious influences of the era. Canto 13 in Dante’s Inferno elucidates on how the religious thought…

In C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, Lewis is arguing that Hell is not merely a place where wicked people who detest God end up; Hell is a place that offers people exactly what they want. The Great Divorce presents “the reason for Hell,” which is people choosing their own wishes over God (Gibson 110). This novel reveals that the self-imprisonment of one’s greatest dreams can lead to infernal results (Gibson 113). In The Great Divorce, Lewis uses Dantean structure, the nature of Grey Town, and the…

Hell. A brimstone, fiery pit where all the sinners go when they die. Trust me, it's not as glamorous as it sounds. For one, after a while, the screams annoy even the most bloodthirsty demons. Another thing, it constantly smells like rotten or burnt flesh wherever you go. A lot of people seem to mistake Hell for a fiery place, where everything is red and black, where demons run around, maiming, torturing, and the like. Well, that's mostly wrong. Don't get me wrong it's hotter than the sun…

The Eye of Providence, also known as the all-seeing eye of God, represents how God watches over humanity, and is a symbol that is typically considered a sign of God's love and care; however, it also has a much more sinister connotation due to its relation to surveillance. The Eye of Providence is shown hovering over an unfinished pyramid on the American dollar bill, and while many conspirators believe the Eye is used to show the United States watching over and protecting its citizens, it also…

Rebecca Adams DeVaney-Lovinguth World Literature I 3 May 2016 Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, which is considered as a literary epic scale. This is characterized among the central texts that have been presumed from the Western literature and it is described as the unique and largest poem during the middle ages. Dante is considered as an activist, writer, and theologian who were born around 1625 in Florence and his literary works have always been used over…

actually believed in the Christian version of good and evil, complete with its religious requirements. Dante’s premise for describing good and evil was highly influenced by the medieval religiosity of the time. Dante wrote The Inferno as part of The Divine Comedy in 1300 from Florence, Italy, where the Catholic Church and the Pope preached that the answer to all things began with accepting God. God was to symbolize all that was not self-indulgent and existed within all men. Dante worked…

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest deciphered texts in human history, dating back to approximately 1700 B.C.E.; the code was a set of laws and punishments during the reign of the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. The code is regarded as a moral and fair set of laws that is also the oldest collection of codified law to ever exist. Throughout the Inferno, it is clear that Dante Alighieri reiterates the theme of “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” in his interpretation of hell, only…