AP Literature Research Paper of Dante’s Inferno By Brian McCaughey In the book Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the main character is led by the spirit Virgil through the nine layers of Hell. During this journey, Dante encounters many sinners that have been condemned to Hell for sins ranging from being unbaptized (layer 1) to treachery against man and country (layer 9), with each layer being more torturous than the previous. Many characters from a range of novels can be categorized into at least one of the layers of Hell based on whatever sin they committed. One character that could be condemned to Hell is George Wilson from The Great Gatsby. He was responsible for not only the murder of Jay Gatsby but also his own suicide.
In a perfect world the discrepancy between right and wrong would always be clear, rather than a matter of subjectivity. Throughout the decades we have been exposed to various imaginaries of heaven and hell. Within one of the most famous biblical stories, Adam and Eve, we are introduced to the idea of Satan and his ability to take on various shapes. Our devilish temptations are composed of various ideas, desires, addictions, habits, and the list goes on. To put it simply, even today the devil can tempt us, disguised in his various forms.
Lucifer Valentine, the Satanic hierophant of Roman Showers and lubricating emetophilia, has invoked utter repulsion within the stomach of horror fans with his fringe classic “Slaughtered Vomit Dolls”. His films are of course not simply expressions of visual disgust through blood, gore, and bile. They have a much deeper and primal resonance. One may say that the films of Lucifer Valentine are cinematic expressions of the unstable uncertain realities of Quantum mechanics. Lucifer Valentine has returned unto existential celluloid planes to unleash the second in his series of murderous bile erotica with the film ReGoregitated Sacrifice.
Katrina Lexa Mr. Lapeyre AP Hum III- 4/5 March 4, 2013 Dante's Inferno Canto V Rhetorical Analysis Inferno was written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri as part of the Divine Comedy which is Dante's fictional account of himself traveling through the three divine realms: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The fifth canto takes place in the Second Circle of Hell which Dante notes is slightly smaller than the First Circle because he believes Hell is shaped like a funnel with each successive circle being slightly smaller than the one before it. In the Second Circle Dante the Pilgrim and Virgil encounter where the Lustful are tossed around by endless storms. Dante the Poet's purpose in this canto is to establish that love and lust are primal forces that cannot be controlled. Dante's use of bird imagery in Canto V creates vivid images of the souls being buffeted by the storm.
He explained that Dante’s Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s poem from the fourteenth-century called Divine Comedy. It is about the journey of Dante through hell, or the medieval version of hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering located within the earth. Through symbolism, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno (Italian for Hell) describing the recognition and the rejection of sin. Overall I thought that whole presentation was extremely boring and hard to follow.
His punishment of killing the bird is that he has to keep telling his story over and over again. Both characters knew that they were going to be punished and have to pay the ultimate price for what they had done. Victors unthinking act of creating the creature led to the murder of two of his closest loved ones. "I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts" (Shelley 100). Mary Shelly uses The Rime of the Ancient Mariner because both Victor and the Mariner did single unthinking acts that got them both severely punished.
In the Inferno, Dante uses many examples to demonstrate the theme of justice. Dante starts at the Gate of Hell and will eventually find his way down to circle nine. The circles are organized according to the gravity of the sin involved. The worse the sinner, the farther down into Hell they will fall. God created Hell as a place to put sinners because they do not deserve his love.
Past speaks to the future in the pairs of texts set for study. To what extent is this made evident in Blade Runner and the extract from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein? Both texts, the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the movie Blade Runner the Directors Cut by Ridley Scott demonstrate very similarly the consequences of the abusive use of scientific development. Although Mary Shelley and Ridley Scott were influenced by different events in different times, both texts show the degradation of human values as a result of abusing scientific advancement in an attempt to play god. Ridley Scott expresses this in Blade Runner through use of a variety of film techniques, sound imagery and events at the time which relate to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The eponymous villain Dracula exemplifies and personifies the fears of society during the 1800's including the spread of the plague, and milieu of the 1800's. Throughout the horror novel we can see Dracula as an alluring, mysterious figure that embodies the paradigms of science, religion and patriarchal values as he changes from a man to a monster through the narration of various personalities, most informatively, Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing and Mina Harker. Reflecting in its epistolary style, Dracula represents Bram Stoker's oppressed individualism, making it unique and refreshing in contrast to other novels of the time. The combination of journals, letters and newspapers allows the reader to observe the point-of-view of each character and
Spill his blood!'.... At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws." (152-153). Evil starts to take over Jack, and he ends up killing one of the boys, Simon.