Hell isn’t all they crack it up to be, honestly.
In the stories, it’s all fire, hopeless souls hopelessly screaming, endless pain. I mean, yeah, there’s fire. Lots of it. And there’s tons of screaming too, probably because of the fire. And where there’s fire and screaming, there’s endless pain.
So maybe hell is all they crack it up to be.
Hell sucks ass, to be completely honest. Even demons don’t love the overwhelming heat, which is why we all live in Canada! I’m just kidding, we don’t all live in Canada. However, most of us do live on Earth, kidnapping your children and pillaging your women! Once again, I’m kidding. I most definitely do not kidnap children. The women, however? I don’t have to pillage them; they absolutely love me.
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I guess that even 300 hundred years won’t teach you manners.
I’m Temperance Bradley, more commonly known as Temley Smith. Unless you’re a demon, which I’m almost 100 % sure you are not, you probably haven’t heard of me.
When I meet humans such as yourself, they usually ask for a “life story”. So, I guess you’re expecting me to give you a long drawn out explanation of how I became a demon. Here’s the abridged version. I was a terrible asshole when I was alive and when I died, I went to hell. My “brothers” and “sisters” tortured me, eventually forcing me to agree to become one of them.
There you go.
The story behind my transition isn’t the important part,
One of the things that was said in the ‘From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ by Jonathan Edwards said, “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to
From my perspective, I believe that “Hell”, if you look deeply, is quite closely associated with the Australian bush. This is because many of the key ideas behind the biblical passages, such as “fire not quenched”, could actually happen in a real life scenario. This short explanation will explain the ways in which these biblical passages relate the common things that happen in the bush. Firstly, referring to the biblical quote: “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”, the part which describes about gnashing of teeth, this could actually happen in the Australian bush.
In this circle, the punishment is not as harsh as the other circles because the people who are in this circle are not bad people, they just were not able to receive salvation. The second circle is home to the lustful. The lustful are blown around by strong winds which represent the restless nature for their desires. The third circle of Hell is where the gluttons reside. The punishment for the gluttonous people is that they are forced to lay in and eat nasty, slimy mud and slush
Most of it is full of god’s wrath, but also god opening his heart and forgiving us. “God is angry with great numbers that are now on earth… than he is who are now in the flames of hell.” He is disgusted by many and won’t be compassionate of us for very long. Irritated, he has the pot hot,” flames do now rage and glow,” ready to receive them. There’s no turning back, the devil, the flames, wait to crash their soul, sadly there’s no refuge.
In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” he talk about Hell a lot. He describes Hell as a place “gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out, in short they have no refuge.” The imagery of Hell as a fiery pit with no escape would put the fear of a God with the powers to do such thing make anyone want to believe, so they could be saved from such a horrific place with endless pain
In Dante's Inferno, Dante who is main character is getting a tour of hell by his tour guide Virgil. Virgil his tour guide presents to him all the nine levels of hell, including the punishments the sinners must suffer with for all eternity. In the ninth level of hell, the worst sinners are frozen in a giant lake. The sinners are then eaten alive by whom is so called satan. According to Dante, Satan is described as “Than do the giants with those arms of his; consider now how great must that whole, which unto such a part conforms itself… O, what a marvel it appeared to me, when i beheld three faces on his head!
On the bus, the narrator encounters various people who reveal what the nature of Hell is. First, the narrator meets a youth. After a puzzling comment from the boy, the narrator asks, “Do they like [Grey Town]?” (Lewis 469). The youth is convinced that the damned like Hell “as much as they’d like anything” (Lewis 469).
Guarding Hell Dante’s experience through fictitious hell ultimately functions as a psychological repair of one’s mind. Souls are assigned to their proper region to endure martyrdom for punishment of evils perpetrated. Ironically, according to region, beasty creatures guard these souls to maintain structure.
The Inferno Dante Alighieri’s “The Inferno” is one of the most intricate pieces ever written. This divine poem is arguably one of the most well known stories in literature. This “ Divine Comedy” uses symbolism and a vivid use of imagery to clearly depict what Dante imagines the circles of hell to be like. Dante was able to incorporate references from the bible, greek mythology, renaissance, and even includes christianity. Dante reveals the true meaning of the Inferno through his leading motif, his interactions between the sinners, and the intertwining of other literary works into the Inferno.
It was the opposite of fire which was ice. The point to this was to better fit the contrapasso. Hell changed so that the sinners would be farth away to god since that is what they betrayed. Dante’s depiction of hell revealed the theme that the punishments fit for every
God’s Justice in Inferno One of the most significant themes, if not the most significant theme within Dante’s Inferno is the perfection of God’s divine justice. Dante expressees divine justice within Inferno in a multitude of ways, with one of the the most prominent examples being the overall structure of Hell and how the punishment for the sinners (perfectly) reflects upon the sin. To the modern reader, Hell likely seems more like an act of cruelty than divine justice, much less a product of God’s love. At first,the torments that the sinners are subjected to seems extreme and grotesque.
The story revolves around metaphors where everything has a double meaning behind what is said. Here what Dante is trying to tell us is that he wakes up in hell because he has strayed from the righteous path that the church and God has set for him. This medieval writing continues throughout the layers of hell sinners are damned to hell and live in a world devoid of any sanitation everything around them is full of suffering and death. Above the gate is a message that tells the beginning of the journey into hell and the suffering that will be caused, “I AM THE WAY INTO THE DOLEFUL CITY, I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL GRIEF… ABANDON EVERY HOPE, ALL YOU WHO ENTER” (399, 1). The church brings out these punishments seeing as the medieval era he lived in was during the time that the church dominated a person’s way of living.
In the Inferno, Dante describes the different levels of hell and the punishment which corresponds to the sin. Dante categorize hell into three major sins consisting of incontinence, violence, and fraudulent. Fraudulent is portrayed as the worse sin in the Inferno while incontinence is seen as a less serious sin. Each category has sinners which have all been punished for their wrong doings in life. The three major sins consist of circles where Dante separates the different sinners.
These people have chosen to live their lives in such a terrible way that they end up in the eighth and ninth circles of hell, where there aren’t any monsters or demons who are more evil. The only “monster” left to cause agony is Satan himself, who stands “issuing three winds / That went forth as he beat them, to freeze the whole / Realm of Cocytus that (surrounds) him” (XXXIV, 51-53). When the Devil is the only creature worse than you are, it shows the reader just how monstrous these shades had been in their lifetimes, according to
Thayer states that the word “hell” actually comes from the hebrew word sheol meaning “The place or state of the dead” (44) Not only is the word hell used for the