Modern Day Inferno
Dante, roman poet and politician, depicts hell as a gloomy, miserable, torturous realm, where no hope or joy exists. In Dante's masterpiece, "The Inferno", the existing hell fails to accommodate human inventions and developing technology. The existing hell soon becomes outdated and obsolete. This is why Hell is a constantly evolving place. It grows and morphs to update itself to stay up to speed with the world above it. Modern Hell is set up in Dante's classic format of nine concentric circles. The sins get progressively worse as you go further inward with the center containing the most sinful souls of all. The vices in today's Hell have bee revised in order to accommodate a world of modern sinners, for some options to sin were not available to the people of the past.The sins of the first three circles are sins of ignorance, similar to Dante's original version. These people were unaware of their sins when they committed them because it was normal behavior in their everyday lives. The first circle contains those who sinned against the environment, either through driving cars, using non-recycled paper, or littering. They are forced to live in a place void of plant and animal life and they breathe thick polluted air that is very si
The sin of gluttony is addressed in the eighth circle. This punishment is the most revolting and stomach turning of them all. The glutton is bolted to the wall and two big plastic hollow tubes are inserted. One is inserted to the mouth one is inserted into the other end. These tubes that are attached to the over-eater are also attached to his/her neighbors. The mouth tube is attached to his neighbor's other end and then attached to the glutton's mouth. The tube that comes out of the gluttons other end is attached to the other neighbor's mouth. This pattern goes on and so forth, creating an extensive digestive tract. New gluttons are attached at the end. At the front of the procession there is a demon hooked to the first tube, with an affinity for Mexican food. Of covetousness, O anger gone insane. Whose violence hurt others." O blind desire The hurricane of Hell in perpetual motion The other Pholus, full of rage. They circle
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Approximate Word count = 1563
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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