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In canto number 3 people are not allowed into heaven or hell because they did not choose between following God or Lucifer. Their punishment its being stung by wasps and hornets. This punishment is symbolically fitting for their sin. Since the people could never make a decision in their life, stings from the bugs cause them to move. I think this punishment is a good metaphor for the crime they committed. However I believe the punishment lasts for too long. Should the souls spend an eternity being tortured for something they did that only affects their lifetime? Even if it did affect others they would be in punished for many years after their deaths. People that are considered neutrals feel the influence of their crime more than the people who they affected when they were alive. Although the metaphor for the crime is good I think the punishment lasts too long.
These people are also forced to stand in an endless line while following a banner. Making them follow a path is a great symbolic punishment for indecisiveness. Following the banner gives them no freedom to make their own choices because they wasted their lives being hesitant. In the neutral zone the banner is their conductor and they must follow it because they did not choose to follow heaven or hell when they were living. God would not accept them and neither would Lucifer. I believe this punishment is appropriate because forcing the souls to follow a banner in hell is the complete opposite of what they did on earth. Since the souls are lost the banner gives them a direction to follow. This punishment is a very one to one ratio for the crime they committed.
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...opted to decline”(canto3, 59). This quote represents how the government is treating our people. When Dante says who chosen for greatness, those are the people voted in by the citizens of the United States. People we voted in are not representing the people that got them there in the first place. That is the opted to decline part. Our government never makes any decisions, which is why they are like the neutral people locked outside of hell. Capital building is split in half to show the government is not capable to agree on matters. They are too afraid to let one person have their way because they are concerned they will lose power. Indecisiveness also ties into the speech bubbles about what the government was fighting over. Since the government cannot make choices they are the perfect example of the neutral souls stuck outside the gates of hell never moving forward.
This message accurately describes how those souls will experience contrapasso in Hell. They will never be released and will experience suffering for eternity. The first line speaks of a...
trip to Hades or would not return from it. At this point of the voyage
Hell is like a government. The bureaucracy is, of course, run by their “Father Below” who is Satan (Lewis 6). In other words, the system is a dictatorship. Additionally, the demons in Hell think that they can only “advance at the expense of another” (Schultz 368). Hell was not the intention God had when He gave His people free will, but it was rather a side effect (Hill and Smith). Hell was a consequence for what Satan and his followers tried to do. God created Hell for everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46). In return, Satan and his followers have devoted themselves to corrupt societies so it is easier to tempt those societies (Schultz 368). This consequence had eternal effect on everyone including God and His angels (Hill and
...nment of the United States of America today. Lobbyists hand checks around to political leaders to have what they want happen. And as much as American citizens would not like to notice it, their freedom and power in the country is decreasing every day. Rome’s tragic and titanic fall should be a warning to the educated citizens of America to try to change what the government is doing and what this country is headed towards, but it is a warning that is not widely heeded. In the words of Joseph Anthony Wittreich, “History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme...” If America continues in its hushed ways, it could be headed towards a fate similar to Rome’s and its short lived flame could be put out as quickly as it was lit.
Seated in his fire-filled chair, the devil dominates the bottom-center of the painting. With the very dark lighting the mood towards this half of the painting is dark, gloomy, lonely, and unpleasing. Frankcen illustrates the true biblical message of hell. What is very interesting about this painting is how hell is extremely large, filled with a mass of people, and takes up about half of the painting. However, some of the people are babies. This alludes to the fact that some people are could possibly be born evil and that their fate is inevitable. A majority of the people set in hell are still looking up worshiping heaven while regretting their mistakes. The painter is trying to illustrate how many people do not make the right choices and end up miserable. The way Fans paints hell in this picture is very similar to the way Dante describes hell in this book The Inferno. Even though there are not nine layers of hell in this painting the descriptions are quite similar. The people standing in line waiting for their punishments, the dark gloomy vibe, and a mixture of young and old souls, are represented in the painting and in Dante’s story (1614-1702). Francken’s goal when interpreting hell is to not only make his viewers fear it, but come to the realization that is where a majority of people end
Similarly, souls in Limbo also face punishments even though they have not necessarily done anything that would put them in Hell. When Dante and Virgil enter the first circle of Hell, also known ...
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