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.
The sinners’ incontinent actions of betrayal have no penance, resulting in the loss of speech, “the gift which distinguishes man from other creatures” (The Relation of Speech to Sin in the Inferno). In The Inferno, the greater the sin, the less articulate the sinner becomes. In Cantos thirty-two through thirty-four, the sinners commit acts of betrayal. Judas, Cassius, and Brutus all had incredible possibility to achieve in the life above, but those who have the greatest potential can also fall the farthest. Human reason means nothing without speech to validate it.
Specifically, Dante’s reactions with the spirits also gain new worth where they are no longer mere responses from the poet, but rather emulative reactions of the Pilgrim to the specific ambiance of each depth of Hell and his symbolic involvement in their sins. In essence, a comprehensive criterion is needed to prevent any myopic understandings of each canticle; the Inferno must not be weighed with its own scale but in terms of its relationship to Purgatorio and Paradiso. For it is in the obscurity of the perfect souls in Paradise that the spirits in Hell gain meaning, just as it is with the Pilgrim’s progressive enlightenment in the Purgatorio and
Offenders can be a combination of any of these three classifications. However, there is an issue with blanket statements because each hate is an individual case, as every individual has had a different life and different incentives. Ironically enough, the most severe Offenders of “hate crime” are victims themselves. Sullivan comes to the conclusion that hate crime is an unnecessary classification under “crime’ and shouldn’t carry a different sentence than crime itself. He ends with a general statement that hate can only be overcome by the success of the victims, and their being unaffected by “ignoring the bigot’s
For example when Benvilio says “I do but keep the peace.” To which tybalt replies “…peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all montagues and thee.” Tybalt clearly expresses his anger towards the montagues by comparing them to hell. The word “hell” is very powerful and is used to insult the montagues. To be compared to hell in those days would have been extremely bad, because hell is the ultimate punishment and there is nothing worse than hell.
Every sin had it’s own punishment, no if, ands or buts about it. It didn’t matter if you weren’t even at fault for your sin. For example the unbaptized children and the virtuous pagans in limbo. Although it was their faults that they sinned, they were still held accountable for their sins and also punished. In gods eyes a sin is a sin, he had a universal way of looking at things.
Dante reveals these techniques and themes constantly in The Inferno. In the twenty-third Canto specifically, tons of examples come up to how he uses these writing techniques and themes. One of the technique’s used in The Inferno is the details revealing characters. Details revealing characters is important to giving the reader a way to really get to know the characters, and even grow feelings for a character. Negative or positive the feelings get the reader involved in the story.
They lead lives based on lies and are soon exposed for the sinners that they really are. Ethan Brand has come to accept that he is a sinner. He even embraces the idea with an open mind. In these two stories Hawthorne expresses the idea that all humans are sinners and contain some amount of evil within them, and that they either accept the fact or attempt to cover it up and deny their natural tendency to
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a fantastic piece of American antitranscendentalism because in that it shows that humans are naturally evil, sinful, and guilty. Hawthorne's protagonist, Hester Prynne, shows in excellent example how human nature can be sinful. Although she is depicted as beautiful, angelic, and almost the epitome of perfection, Hawthorne reveals in his story how eyes are deceiving and humans are sinners by nature. Hawthorne writes, "Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne," (Hawthorne, 39). Prynne commits adultery in the novel, one of the most unforgivable sins.
* “Do you know who makes good first impressions? Liars.” * "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad * "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." Winston Churchill * "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."