This word suggests a cavity or hole in the ground. The author describes Hell as a pit because it’s a symbol of an everlasting trap. Anyone would feel threatened if they were told it’s a possibility that they would be spending an eternity in Hell. It helps support the tone because of the image it creates. You will spend an entity “wrestling” with God (156).
All people are born sinners. Natural men must be reborn to be saved; “…hell is waiting for them…” (Edwards 46). These views are that of Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards belonged to a religion that was lingering and was close to disappearing due to the growing numbers of Christians, so he used figurative language and imagery in order to scare people back into the Puritan way of life. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell.” (Edwards 47).
Ileah Glenn ENG 2110 M&W 3pm Dr. Voss Dante's Inferno chronicles a strange journey through hell, seeming familiar at times but 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, particularly its media. In my mind I’ve depicted hell as this place of immense torment bestowed on all sinners. My faith has taught me that those who sin go to hell to be punished. Dante's adventure clearly shows that the souls of hell are punished, as I thought.
Satan and his minions have corrupted the minds of those people who listen to his deceptive ideas so as to continue their hell-based schemes. In relation to the end-time situation it is prophesied by our Lord Jesus Christ that "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow coldâ¦. "(Matthew 24:12). Like St. Peter, we must accept Jesus as the Son of the Living God and experience the citizenship of heaven kingdom while living on this planet earth (Mathew
Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,” (III.iii.36-40). Claudius opens his soliloquy in a way that almost makes the reader feel sorry for him. A confession of his own immoral behavior to God that stems from a deep conviction. This is proof that Claudius is in a battle within himself.
Each level of Hell has a certain punishment and that punishment is for a reason. For Example, in Canto three the people are being chased by giant wasps, “Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, accents of anger, words of suffering, and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands-” (Dante, 25-27). Virgil explains to Dante that the reason they are placed here is because they had no direction in life. Their punishment is exactly how they lived their life; they could not choose a side. Virgil told Dante “They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
Edwards negated the fact that salvation could be attained through good works, emphasizing that the only way to salvation was depending on God’s grace. In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” he vividly describes the tortures of hell. While describing hell, he said, “It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell”(handout). Edwards had a very strict preaching style, but it was his vivid imagery of hell that inspired many people to work their hardest to reach salvation. Several years after Edwards began preaching, George Whitefield started a different style of evangelical preaching.
God’s pleasure, His will, is what holds us up, until He knows that a heart is so hard that He will let go and let us slip into the hell we have earned by our own hands. Then the sinner is no more a thought of God, but is something under His feet (authorsden.com). To illustrate his point, Edwards writes “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire” (431). Damnation and the wrath of God remain the final judgment against anyone who turns away from the word of
Lucifer’s fall was due to him rebelling against God’s authority with the assumption of feeling entitled to the glory and power of God. The building of the Tower of Babel was an example of pride on behalf of King Nimrod of Babylonia; the purpose of the giant construction project was based on an egocentric mentality of the Babylonians. Assuming that they can make a name for themselves due to the fact that they share one language, live a lavish life and decide to create a huge tower—God punished the population by making them incomprehensible to one another (the beginnings of a new language and eventually ethnicities) In the inferno Dante meets King Nimrod and was told by Virgil that this individual deserved all the punishments that came with being in hell and in the Purgatorio we see how Dante pities the prideful penitents who are burdened with enormous sized stones on their backs which force them to keep their heads bowed as a way “belittling”
In Frankenstein, Victor continually refers to his creation as ‘vile wrench’, ‘abhorred devil’. This uses of epithet illustrate his immediate repulsion towards the creature and his recklessness towards conformity of life he has bestowed. Despite this, the creature gladly desires Victor’s acknowledgement on his behalf - ‘Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed’. Juxtaposition between two biblical allusion, ‘Adam’ and ‘fallen angel’ suggests us the contrast in Victor and God. In Bible, Adam was the first male with gifted creation from the God’, but the creature rather refers himself more of ‘fallen angel’, ‘devil’ who plunges the eternal war against God.