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What do you guys think of the ways that Milton and Dante seem to portray Hell and the devil in their classic works? I don't have much to say about Milton, but I feel slight issues with Dante's version of Hell.
It's far too orderly and predictable in some cases, why do the punishments fit the crimes? Why is it so neatly organized?
It would seem to me that by rebelling against God and all that God represents (natural law, for instance) that the Kingdom of Hell would be something entirely opposite. It would remind someone of Auschwitz maybe, where your punishment is random and the entire place is arbitrary. Gilles de Rais my only be flogged while a whore is drawn and quartered repeatedly.
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>>8816642
>why do the punishments fit the crimes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapasso
>Why is it so neatly organized?
As with the rest of the universe, God is the boss. Satan isn't, he's imprisoned there.
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I imagine the punishments fit the crimes both to produce good poetry using irony, and to drive home the point that bad people get what they deserve (and the good what they deserve).
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>>8816642
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Don Juan in Hell had a pretty interesting vision of the place.
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>>8816766
came here to post this
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>>8816642
I think dante's depiction is masturbatory. I haven't read milton's.
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>>8816642
I've been to hell, it looks nothing like Dante's or Milton's.Myselfdid it better inmy diary
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