Dante and Virgil are chased by demons into the sixth pouch of the eighth circle of hell that consists of hypocrisy. A hypocrite is someone who pretends to possess virtues, morals, or religious beliefs but in reality do not have them. Punishment for these sinners is to where cloaks that look beautiful on the outside but are lined with lead on the inside. This punishment matches the sinners because they get a taste of their own medicine and have to live in hell crawling around. The eighth circles of hell, Malebolge, consist of sinners that involve conscious fraud. This circle consists of ten Bol...

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The first definition of a crucible is a vessel in which various metals are purified of contaminants. John Proctor seems to be introduced into this rampant inferno to be tested. His outward shell of vanity is burned away leaving a man of good character. A crucible is also a time period of stress upon a society. Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor ... character in their turbulent epoch. In retrospect, people such as Abigail Williams and Thomas Putnam exemplify a person's innate tendency to be greedy and selfish. Lastly, a crucible can be related to the crucifixion of Christ. He died to save ot...

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... 7:9, it said "But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than be aflame with passion." This was the perfect example I was looking for. It shows a different type of passion, one that is felt with two humans. To me this is they type of ... Quotations was my next source. This book guided my to a quote of a Swiss psychologist named Carl Gustav Jung. He said, "A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them" ( ). This quote I found very interesting. It is one that I had to sit and think about for a minute ... exp...

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... he's sick of what his father is doing to the family and forcing them to share his punishments. Faulkner kind of writes this story as a moralist, portraying why a sensible approach to hardship and disappointments are essential in life to avoid someone's problems to get so bad that it devours them like an inferno. But fire can be seen not only as destruction ... but also as a way to purify. It cleans out what was there before, leaving ashes to make new soil and a new land. Fire was present when God spoke to individuals in the Bible. When God chose to speak to Moses, "... the angel of the ...

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... he's sick of what his father is doing to the family and forcing them to share his punishments. Faulkner kind of writes this story as a moralist, portraying why a sensible approach to hardship and disappointments are essential in life to avoid someone's problems to get so bad that it devours them like an inferno. But fire can be seen not only as destruction ... but also as a way to purify. It cleans out what was there before, leaving ashes to make new soil and a new land. Fire was present when God spoke to individuals in the Bible. When God chose to speak to Moses, "... the angel of the ...

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... was flying at speeds more than 500 miles per hour, faster than military regulations allow. Additionally, it came out in the trial that the military-issued map that the pilots were using did not show the cable car. With a decision that angered the Italian government, both men were acquitted. They were later court martialed a second time when it was discovered that they destroyed a videotape that ... of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Zeus. Her curiosity led to her unintelligent decision. Watching talk shows can lead to other stupid decisions, like not walking away from the t.v. when you see ...

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... was flying at speeds more than 500 miles per hour, faster than military regulations allow. Additionally, it came out in the trial that the military-issued map that the pilots were using did not show the cable car. With a decision that angered the Italian government, both men were acquitted. They were later court martialed a second time when it was discovered that they destroyed a videotape that ... of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Zeus. Her curiosity led to her unintelligent decision. Watching talk shows can lead to other stupid decisions, like not walking away from the t.v. when you see ...

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