Inferno
Essays

Local Historical Importance: Nat Turner's Rebellion

¶ … Fall to Spring's Sprouting: The Motif of Man as Leaves in Literature and the Emergence of Autonomy as Divine

Dante's journey into hell presents the three main categories of sin, categorized in accordance with God's desire. Depending on the sins that offend God the least, the nine levels of hell put across more and more…

Di Donato on Immigration, Faith and Labor

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is set in two basic locations, the first being any metropolitan area of the era and the second being the artic tundra. By far the glacial region is the most important as it signifies an…

How does the father-daughter relationship change over time?

Alienation in "A Rose for Emily" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

It would not be an overstatement to say that the whole course of Western philosophy was influenced by the Greek philosopher known as Socrates. Although he did not leave any writings of his own or, at least, none of…

An Analysis of the Impact of the Black Death on Western Society

This study examines William Blake's relation to Emanuel Swedenborg, and in particular how their respective considerations of heaven and hell relate to human expression or repression. Blake takes some inspiration from Swedenborg but condemns the latter's tendency to reiterate dogma and moral codes. In contrast to Swedenborg, Blake celebrates human expression and desire as a means of attaining a greater knowledge of the universe and the means for ensuring human happiness.