Some of them chose neither good nor evil and the others did not accept Christ and heaven or hell wants nothing to do with them. On earth we choose our own path and this seems to be the right one but Dante shows us that it is a sin we have
Dante’s Inferno In today’s society, everyone rationalizes their sins. No one wants to believe that what they do in their everyday lives is morally wrong. Dante, throughout his Inferno, describes what he believes hell to be. He travels through each circle, seeing the souls that committed sins. At the end, Dante comes to the final circle of hell to see Satan’s three heads perpetually chewing on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas, the three great traitors.
Arthur Dimmesdale committed the greater sin because he was a man of faith. He was not true to his sacred vows. He committed an adultary which is considered to be the worst sin because it is against one of the ten commandments. He told the people of lord to be true and faithful to their religion when he was not himself. He did not tell the people about his sin like Hester Prynne's was told.
John didn’t want to be named a liar, he admitted to committing adultery, and the last thing he wanted was his name nailed on the church’s wall because he signed a lie. John Proctor sacrificed his soul because he knew he couldn’t have another name. “Because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life, because I lie and sign my name to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of those that hang!
The Pharisees and Sadducees accused him of not following the Jewish law because they felt that what he shared with the people was going against the traditional Jewish scripture and they felt that he deserved to be punished. I found this very unfair, just because Jesus had his own way of going about things and it wasn’t “their” way they felt that he was wrong. Now a days we all have our own views and opinions and we definitely would not have been hung on a cross nor would we have been treated as he was. I felt that his punishment was very serious, whether he was the messiah or not, no one deserves to be put to death for something of that matter. When I read that the crucifixion was a punishment that was usually given to people who committed crimes of thievery and other serious cases I became a little more upset.
After all of these tragic events, it becomes clear to Creon that what he did was wrong and that he needs to own up to his actions. He says, “The truth is hard to bear. Surely a god has crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heaven, and driven me headlong a barbaric way to trample out the thing I held most dear” (Exodus, lines 94-96). Creon finally realizes the gods are punishing him for his wrong doings by taking the lives of all of his loved ones. Creon had to learn the hard way that, once again, the gods’ laws will always come before the state’s laws, and nothing will change that.
Repentance, is not merely feeling sorry for sin. A person may feel truly remorseful for their critical spirit, greed, or anger. As important as it is to feel the weight of our sin, these emotions are not repentance. In fact, if we accept tears as repentance, then we can actually obstruct the person from doing the really hard work of change. Reverend Dimmesdale tried really hard to change in order to feel penitent while Hester didn't try and make a change even after she was publically punished.
It makes Eugene upset that his family doesn’t understand the severity of how even the smallest of sins can influence themselves in God’s eyes. He is under the impression that by beating his family, he can beat away the devil. However, it is only Eugene who thinks that this kind of
A thing which has never happened and has never been heard of up until this point of existence. Yet, he believes he can not bear the punishment God bestowed upon him, for he fears no longer having God’s watchful eye on him anymore, and he fears being killed by the others of the world. If he couldn’t bear the punishment because he would be forced to continue living, alone, and with the guilt of what he did, it would be reasonable for him to be unable to bear it. But that is not the way he sees his punishment. He is being removed from paradise because he himself defiled it and he fears death.
Nevertheless, not allowing others to access to water is against morality when we control the supply of water. In the contrast, the innocent villagers are still not conscious of being taken advantages. As Mary says “It be an act of God, Madam, God no be blind. He see what awful thing people do nowadays-o. (3)” It seemingly signifies that God will punish people who do bad things at the end.