Imagine you have been sent to one of Dante's nine circles of sin.
Identity which circle it is; what sorts of images and people would you see and how would you feel? Think about what you drew for a picture of this circle and expand on your ideas! (75 to 100 words)
Louis
ReplyDeleteMy name is Phlegyas. I am the ferrier of the river Styx, here in the sixth circle of Hell where all the gloomy sing their sad songs, peircing the mudlike water with bubbles, the sloth drifting from bank to bank and the wrathful trying to catch any human that may pass the Styx. This part of the Inferno where I live ressembles its’ occupants: gloomy, quiet but it semms that it will jump on you at the first sound. The eighth circle looks like a never ending cave going around and around, with all the damned in the river flowing with mud. Yes, I miss earth very much.
Anish:
ReplyDeleteMy name is Thagus. I am stuck here in the 7th circle of violence. Here people are punished in different ways. Violence against others, against themselves and against god or nature. I have been sent down here for insulting God and telling everyone about it. People call me a blasphemer (someone who insults god) but who cares about God? I say only the weak ones believe in God. People say he helps man so why hasn’t he helped me and the others who have been here in hell for half a millennium. He doesn’t do anything!
All the ones stuck here for the same reason as me. We are punished in a desert of unbearable heat where fire rains from the sky. The only way to escape the desert of raining fireballs is to walk along the dykes (a ditch) that will guide us to the river Phlegethon towards the center of Hell. This river flows down a sheer drop into the eighth circle.
No one knows what we may have to bear in the 8th circle. Only few have taken this path. But I don’t feel encouraged. I am stuck here to face the punishment of my sins.
I don’t care! I will never believe in God!
Emma says:
ReplyDeleteThe 7th circle of hell, violence, I really hate it here. The guards around me with bows and arrows are just frightening. They shoot an arrow at whoever trys to escape from the boiling blood bath. I can feel the blood rushing through my veines and i can feel a strong stench. My mouth is dry and has a bitter taste. I just hear screams around me, and people gasping for air. I’m scared and I think I’m going to die any second. I can feel all the power in my body slowly running out...
Nawal:
ReplyDeleteMy Name is Crepsly. I am stuck in the 9 circle of sin, which is treachery. I am probably here because i never believed that there is unexplainable life out there which we can't see, hear, smell or touch and without us knowing it is among us. You know, i am one of those people who don’t people stuff that is not proven. But i am surprised that i am not in heaven because i devoted my whole life to help others. When i used to get hurt i used to go to the streets and put the band aid on a beggar who needs it more than me. Why wouldn't god care about good people who didn't believe in God?
Right now i can't see anything because my eyes were gauzed out by a spoon type thing. Then these maggots went through my eye sockets and ate my brain inside out. My body is frozen and nothing but ice. The worst part about this is that i can feel everything but since i am already dead i am being but out of my misery. I think even if i had my eyes it would be pitch black because there is no life here except Satan. Before my eyes were gauzed out i saw him, and now i hoped my eyes were gone before i saw him. He had 2 horns in on his head. He had cracks all over his skin which were bleeding continuously his skin looked like it was made from red clay. He had no feet it was all just mush, and was hovering above the in the air abut 3 inches above the ice he had 8 arms, 4 on each side and most of his fingers were joined together. He had a smile which mad u think everything was your fault. The look on his was instantly made me acknowledge that he fed on human misery.
I hoped i just believed in 1 thing and i wouldn't have been suffering for an eternity. who knew that 1 decision could change everything. Now can't even tell the people still alive to make their decisions carefully and what the bear if they don't.
Erika
ReplyDeleteI'm in the 7th circle of hell, violence. Here people are being punished for the violence against God(blasphemers), the violence against nature (sodomites), and the violence against order (usurers). I am frightened. I'm in a desert with boiling sand with fiery flakes falling from the sky.
The blasphemers lie on the sand, the usurers sit, and the sodomites wander about in groups.
I feel like I am burning up. It is scary, and I feel like I am never going to be able to survive. I am so scared and tired from suffering that I can't even scream or run. Will I move on?
Lexi says:
ReplyDeleteI've commited suicide because i realised how much i dont like this world. Now im stuck in the 7th circle of sin, a place id rather not be. Who cares if i do violence to my self? Well, now i have no choice but to face my punishment. I heard people screaming for help, but i cant do anything to help them. My jugement day is coming up and im terribly frightened. Who ever did violence to them selves like i did, we are incapable of moving and we are in the form of a tree, so there is no way we can try to escape. Everybody's face is filled with terror. We stood still watching people get hung from one of their limbs. Their arm branches were torn off by large birds who fly though the forst of suicide. I was worried, maybe i shouldnt of comitted suicide but the past is the past. Now i wish i could have another chance, and to start all over again. Im watching as each person gets taken one by one. I wonder..will i be the next to go?
Sophie says:
ReplyDeleteI am in the 7th circle of hell, for committing violence. I never realised that committing a crime would bring such a heart jolting experience. I am standing in the river Phlegethon filled with boiling blood. Trapped and circled by Centaurs with bows and arrows. Should I try and escape? I never would have thought that killing a man would lead to me having to die a more painful death, ....being hanged from a tree branch until I die. I’m feeling lost, horrible, frightened and angry. But I can't do anything, I can't go back, I can't move and I'll be next to die. I feel the blood drain from my feet into the river as I am being hanged......Will God ever forgive my sin?
amy says:
ReplyDeleteiam stuck in between heavn and hell as i wait to see if i will suffer the inferle horrors or if i will have all the glorys of heavn. my emaotions are peacful yet i feel sorrow, being soo close yet no way in to heavn, happy to not be in the place below where i see the burning victuims of hell screaming as there souls cry out with tears and the endless torcher, but sad too see what iam missing thought the glodern gates and the endlsly blue skys where the son shines down on the riches and glory i see the people smileng never sad all and any glimps of pain gone from there faces, the faces of the pour and inaceit angles above. this is my level of the after live the first limbo.
Rich
ReplyDeleteI'm in the 9th circle of sins because I have lots of bad things to people and I never believe in god. But if I were able to make second chose I would not do bad things to people and believe in god. Anyway I have no more options so I would have to face my punishments. The atmosphere is cold and silent. I see Satan sleeping on a thick block of ice. I feel gloomy and miserable, I never believe in these things until hell or heaven until I really faced it. Its dark the only thing I’m seeing is Satan and other people who being in the 9th circle of sins with me. I gaze Satan, he was bloodcurdling I try not to look at him because every time when I look at him I lose hope and I think that I will never ever survive this misery. Satan had four horns each of them look sharp and strong the color on the horn are dark silver it’s ten times sharper and stronger than a rhino’s horn. He had four arms all of them had long dark rotten nails. I couldn’t believe it how horrifying he is. Every time he wakes up I try to not stare at him or else I might get punished because of not respecting Satan who betrayed god.
HaEun
ReplyDeleteOh God!
Help me out here! I'm stuck in the 9th circle of sins which is the last circle. I'm frozen. There is Satan, the fallen angel who's looking at me, flapping his huge wings which makes all the traitors in the circle. He's chewing, doing all the bloody stuffs to us that I just don't want to talk about it. His 3 heads red, yellow and blue just freaks me out. I'm deep frozen from his flapping wings that I can't talk or can't even move my body. Oh Satan! Why in the 9th circle? Go somewhere else! I wouldn't mind. I want to Suicide but how because I'm frozen.
I see Satan's two sharp horns and his shiny red skin. Did I really do something wrong? I just want to get out. Life is horrible. Will God ever let me out? I miss Earth!
Ayaka
ReplyDeleteMy body is frozen. I think i'm traped in the 9th circle. In front of me there is a scary looking creature looking at me. That creature has 3 faces. Black, red and yellow. In his mouths gushing bloody foam as he chewing on the 3 traitors. Why did I come to this horrible place? I can't stand it! But, I can't move. His eyes is weeping forever. That freaks me out. Oh! That is Satan! He is moving his wings side to side. He is producing chilling cold winds that freeze thick ice. Ouch! That hurts! The ice is getting worse. My body is turning purple. Why can't the god help me? Why can't god take me to earth? I can't think of anything. Somebody help me!
Shannon
ReplyDeleteThe Circle Of Greed
I know that all of the circles or Sins of Dante are to punish people who have done bad things like cheated on someone, hurt people or been exceedingly greedy.
I find myself in the fourth circle of Greed. Here, I find so many people around me that have never been happy with what they had- just like me- never satisfied!! . You can see the look of greed in their eyes. Even now they try to steal things from each other so they can brag about something that they have.
Their clothes are all ripped and their hair is as messy as you can imagine.
Will we ever get out of this circle or will we live our dead lives here, missing the lovely pampered life on earth that we will never have…
Daniel says
ReplyDeleteMy name...I have forgotten. I am stuck here in between, why I don't know. I have done no sin, though you, God still put me here. I have not been, Baptised, is that the reason?
The atmosphere is so calm, so pleasant, yet...I feel so sad. Everywhere I see people walking their own pathway, with no emotion, no feeling and no expression. There seems to be ending, no point where our walk, our life in this place in between will ever end, We here in Limbo will forever dream of heaven, we will forever dream of how we ever ended up in this place.
Ceibhionn
ReplyDeleteIm on the 9th level of hell,Limbo were writers a poets go if they have had no contact with god it is allso the place were unbaptised babys go. Everything is peacefull yet i feel so sad and gloomy. I wait to get chosen by what I have done (sins) to either go down to the depths of hell were I can hear the victoms scream in terrow and pain or to go up to haeven forever happy and peacefull. I feel as if I have to wait for ages in depression and sadness in such a buetifull place.
arabella says:
ReplyDeletei am stuck on the 7th circle of hell becuase i comited violence in my life. oh how i wish i could change the sins i have commited. here my mind is blank from any thing ecept terror pain and sorrow. in this god forsaken place a minatuar guards the gates growling and glaring at any poor soul forced to enter this ring of horrors. there is no chance of escape for centuars stand by shooting down anyone who dares to try. the bodys of the daring float lifeless around me in the river of blood we are forced to live in adding to the ever presnt stench of death and demise in the unbreathable air. if only i had a chance to repent before iwas thrown to this awful fate that is my death.
Chawan says:
ReplyDeleteI am stuck in the 9th circle because I don't believe in god and I have betrayed my own country. I wish I could just go back in time and fix everthing but its too late. I can't escape I am stuck in ice. This place is like the sadness of the people I have betrayed. There is no love there is only pain, sadness and lonlyness. There is a small chance I could move up to the 8th circle but the chance is as small as my amount of kindness in me. There is no hope here. Satan is here flapping his wings to blow fear and sorrow into our hearts to get what we desirve. Satan is looking at us ashamed that we have done so much evil. He's eyes tears down like a waterfall and his mouth dribbles down blood to show the pain that we have done to others. I just want a second chance but it will never happen I am stuck here forever.
Amanda
ReplyDeleteLimbo is the best sin you can be in there is no punishment here there is only sadness and peace in the air. When you enter Limbo you are surrounded by a 7 walled castle and beyond those walls are beautiful meadows. People who come here are the people that don’t believe in god and people who don’t follow the Cathlic church and children who have been naughty. It is dark and gloomy and shadows follow you every where. This is Limbo.
Triz says:
ReplyDeleteFraudulence and Malice, the circle that when you enter you must cover both of your ears because of the loud and terrifying screams from the people that whipped by horned demons. People who come to this circle are the people that are like: Fortune tellers, magicians (etc) who lie to people and the people that sexually abuse someone. People in this circle are in pain and are tortured.
Nick says:
ReplyDeleteI'm stuck in the 7th circles of hell (Violence), most likely because i committed suicide, started different kinds of fights or hates god. Here in the 7th circle of hell is very weird, people say that god helps other people, but he doesn't help me go to heaven, instead he leaves me in this rotten circle for 2 thousand years! Are punishment isn't as good as you would think, we are punished with fire rain (raining fire), and there is no way out! The only way out is to walk along this HUGE road underground, but it only leads to the worst place ever, THE NINTH CIRCLE OF HELL! This is a very bad place to be..... ]=
Jina:
ReplyDeleteWhere am I? What is this place? Why is everything so cold? Everything is frozen. Wherever I look there is only people's head sticking out of the ice. Suddenly there was a hole and the ice covered my whole body. Now I am one of the people who are stuck here. My body temperature is dropping. My lips are shaking from the coldness. My body is getting numb.
When I look up I see Satan weeping. Tears are dropping from his sad face. He's flapping his gigantic wings then a cold breeze of air went through my face. The coldness took over my body and I feel like my nerve systems aren't working. I can't move anything. Everything is frozen. I am far from god who has the fire of love. Does this mean that god doesn't love me?
Armaan says…
ReplyDeleteThe 7th circle of hell violence. This place really nasty, I hate it. Many people there for e.g. guard they shoot stuff at us for no reason or you are trying to do something bad or escaping something like that. The guard uses bows to shoot at people. Every minute or something somebody screams, shot or die, people just don't have peace there. That’s why I would not got to the 7th circle of hell VIOLENCE.
Yago says:
ReplyDeleteIn the circle Limbo everything is peaceful, but sad. People are here because they were not baptized, they didn´t follow the Church or because they just never had contact with god. You can´t do anything but wait. But the question is: Wait for what? But you can´t do anything but wait and stare at the seven walls of a castle. You can´t get through that walls but on the other side there is something much better than Limbo...
BY DENNIS JOHANSSON
ReplyDeleteDennis says:
I am in the last circle of the sins, the circle of heretics and anyone that has betrayed their own families. Here I lie in the cold abyss of ice. There were no screams no cries for help but pure silence, bodies piled up everywhere there eyes glowed a dark blue. In every breath I took the cold steamy air thickened I realized there was no hope left here just death and a never ending sorrow.