Circle Four In Dante's Inferno

The first bolgia contains the seducers and panderers, because they were so violent during their lifetime, they are violently whipped by demons. The second bolgia holds the flatterers, who are sunk in excrements, this punishment symbolizes how surrounded people with lies to get their way so now they are surrounded by feces. The third bolgia contains the simoniacs, who sold positions to people in the clergy, they’re punished by being hung by their feet, which are on fire, over a pit. During their lives simoniacs had a lot of power over certain people, and this punishment takes away their power to do anything. Fortune tellers and diviners are encompassed in the fourth bolgia, because they tried to look into the future their heads are on backwards while they walk backwards, so that they can never look into the future again.

Prejudice is a major topic of the Harry Potter series. Lord Voldemort, the main villain, is introduced in The Sorcerer’s Stone as a wizard equivalent to Hitler, looking down on anyone who is not of a “pureblood” status. He is hostile to muggles and muggleborns because of his witch mother’s abandonment by his muggle father. The expressions "pure-blood," "half-blood," and "Muggle-born" have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter (the upper-class purebloods) and expresses their prejudices. They treat creatures they feel inferior to themselves - the beasts, outcasts, or slaves - as second-class to human wizards.

The circle that best represents Contrapasso is the fourth circle. The fourth circle in Dante’s Inferno punishes those who sinned in greed. Pluto guards this circle because he is the deity of wealth. Those who are punished in this circle are forced to push great weights by their chest eternally. This is a great example of contrapasso because it symbolizes with their push towards fortune and lavishly jousting.

The Enlightenment was a verbal war against the upholders of tradition and authority. Denis Diderot was part of the the eighteenth century guild of writers, publicists, and political reformers who pioneered revolutionary thoughts; The people who Questioned the Authority were not tolerated and they landed in jail. These philosophers risked everything Everything from their family to their lives, just to spread their propositions, about exploited principles such as freedom of press, trade, reason, and education. Denis’s Life work was the Encyclopedia, a weapon that can go against ecclesiastical and governmental institutions, that greatly influenced the revolutionary war. The Encyclopedia covered all the areas in, science, technology, politics,

Is disobedience against the nation’s government needed if it means living to see another day? The Crucible by Arthur Miller portrays a society which corrupts itself through the belief of witchcraft. Witchcraft seemingly sets all the rules and standards for life and death and brings individuals against the court for their life or untimely death. Furthermore, there have been numerous individuals who go against their unjust government in order to protect a reputation, their own kind, and their beliefs.

In the play, the Crucible by Arthur Miller takes an inner look at the HUAC act, where they put people on tedious trials because they allegedly had ties to communism or they practiced communism. It explores all of the lying and accusing people were doing to each other. In the play, they use the Salem witch trials as an example. The play uses the accusations of witchery and the tedious trials and hangings of people for these accusations. The author clearly uses irony, characterization, and understatement to point out the wrongdoings during this time.

A major fault in everyone in “The Crucible” is their continual lying to get whatever it is they want. With witchcraft being the weighted weapon it is it is easy for one to gain from the loss of others. Putnam is greedy, throughout the whole play he tries for the other villagers’ belongings. In Scene V Corey suggests that “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property—that’s law!

I, 82-84). Dante uses powerful, graphic imagery to depict punishment and sin reveales behaviorally, the true nature of the sin of violence. The punishment is relentless, the reasonaing and moral rules are due to entity defined by human. In that Aligeri is responsible for not only punishment, but the qualities that deem them wrong. No punishment too specific, the tormented scrape and stab any prisoner they see.

In there, Dante passes by politicians from Florence who confiscated Dante’s possessions after he was exiled from Florence. The sixth circle of Hell is “Hersey”, which is a place reserved for those who have ideas that contradicts Christianity. Their punishment is to spend an eternity in a flaming tombs. And just like the other circles Dante sees some familiar faces or notable historical figures like Emperor Frederick the second and an ancient Greek philosopher called

Satan (Lucifer), the chief of rebel angels to go against God, is the greatest villain with many tragic flaws of hubris. Satan is said to be the incarnation of evil as he is portrayed as subversion to christen believes of Felix Culpa. This believes says that whatever God does, does it for good. Whereas Satan goes against the Gods decision as a result of his revolution against God brings him to hell along with his other fallen angels. His revolution against God continues and provokes other rebel angels to fight against god with more determination and courage’s mind even if he is in hell.

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller many characters turn on each other accusing them of witchcraft. Many people are getting hung by these false accusations, and the town is chaotic due to this. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller shows that characters are motivated and will stop at nothing to get what they want. Miller shows this through the accusations made by Thomas Putnam, Judge Danforth, and Mary Warren.

Corrupted Cites, Poisonous Power, and Tortuous Times In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party and the all-seeing Big Brother are notorious for heavily monitoring the general populace and using unorthodox methods of manipulation, fear and torture to maintain control. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party, is privy to the ways of Big Brother and the technique used to control the past, and he rebels in many more ways than one. In the end, he comes to know the true meaning of torture and learns that paranoia and corruption are the harsh results of poisonous power. By Chapter Four of Book 1, Winston is knee deep in a relationship that would not be approved of by his superiors.

Criticisms of established ideas and practices are is most effective when it is specific, objective and directed towards the subject. Whether it is an editorial attacking the way a president is running the country, or a movie reviewer negatively rating a movie, addressing the issue directly allows for the most powerful delivery of criticism. In Canto XIX of Dante’s Inferno, Dante travels through the Third Bolgia of the 8th circle of hell. In this Bolgia, Dante attacks the practice of simony, the act of selling religious offices or favors for money named after Simon Magus. It's clear to the audience that Dante is against the practice as he utilizes apostrophes to interrupt his narrative in order to rebuke Simony and the sinners, allusions of specific religious figures to provide context for the sin, tone to emphasize his stance on the issues as well as, contrapasso to illustrate the punishment a simonist deserves.

The reason Dante choose the particular punishments for the sinners in the same ring is because Dante believed that the punishments should fit the crime the person they committed. Dante’s hell is divided into different parts where at the top is the sins that aren’t seen as big and at the bottom are the sins that are considered the worst to him. Dante believed in God’s fairness and believed God wouldn’t let anyone get away with committing sins and would seek justice by punishing people with punishments that fit the crime. In the first circle, which is Limbo, is where the unbaptized go this ring is made up of non-Christians and babies who died before being baptized who are punished with eternity in an inferior form of Heaven they live in a castle

In The Inferno, Dante experienced Hell, and from his journey, one specific idea was consistent. This idea is the importance surrounding the number three. Throughout The Inferno, numbers distinguished the different circles, ranking of sinners, sins, monsters, Cantos, etc. within the afterlife and Hell. Therefore, it can be seen that since the number three was repeated in Dante’s religious works, like The Inferno, this number had spiritual significance (The Inferno).