JerryArkansas
jerryarkansas
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« on: September 22, 2016, 04:47:58 PM » |
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Hell, it is something all people know about. However, where did the modern idea of hell come from? Dante, in his masterpiece Paradise Lost, provided a description which many know as hell. John Milton, in Paradise Lost also gave a description which still lingers in the collective mind. But they are very different from each other. In Inferno and Paradise Lost, a clash exists between the descriptions, due in large part to the hardships and struggles that the authors of the works had faced in life before and during writing them. Milton would face struggles regarding not only his health but the civil war which was raging in England at the time. Dante had to face losing his home and the betrayal of all those who he had known best. These hardships lead them to giving a description of hell that scars us to this day.
It sucks, but did the job.
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