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Fallen Souls Essay Research Paper Fallen SoulsThesis

Fallen Souls Essay, Research Paper


Fallen Souls


Thesis Statement: In each Circle and Canto there are different


penalties to pay but it is for sure that each forbidden soul in the


Inferno will live forever in eternal suffering.


I. Introduction


II. Medea and Jason


A. Jason?s love affair.


B. Medea and the three children exiled.


C. Medea?s slaying of the three children and Glauce.


D. Jason?s penalties.


III. O. J. Simpson


A. His Crime.


B. His Penalties in the Inferno and in life.


IV. Benedict Arnold


A. His Crime.


B. His Penalties in Hell.


V. Conclusion


Fallen Souls


Cantos III, V, and XXXIV are only three of the Cantos of the


fallen souls of the Inferno. The Inferno is the place we call Hell. It


reeks with bad smells and bugs and fire along with the many other


hideous things. The Inferno has many Cantos and Circles, each


for a different sin or wrong doing towards another. In each circle


and Canto there are different penalties to pay but it is for sure that


each forbidden soul in the Inferno will live forever in eternal


suffering.


Our first soul to discuss is eternally locked in Canto V,


Circle Two: The Carnal. This man, Jason, became king of Cornith


by committing adultery against his wife, Medea, with the king of


Cornith?s daughter, Glauce. Jason returns to Medea and tells her


that she and their three children are to leave his home immediately


so he and Glauce can move in. The following day Medea sends


Glauce a poisoned robe which kills her. This causes Jason to


come to Medea for revenge, where he finds his three children


murdered by their mother?s hand. Jason grief stricken falls upon


his own sword and dies there with his sons. Jason is reputed to the


Carnal a place where souls who give up there own life for passion


?are swept forever in the tempest of Hell, forever denied the light


of reason and of God,? (Literature 635). He is forever with the


judge of Hell, Minos.


The Caina is ?the first ring of the last circle where those who


performed acts of treachery against their kin,? (Literature 638).


One destined for the Caina is O. J. Simpson. This man committed


a sin that would send him to Canto XXXII. Simpson killed his


wife Nicole

Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in a


jealous rage. Simpson will surely be judged by Minos to go to


Caina were his soul will forever have to live in retribution and


think about what he had done against his wife, Nicole. O. J. will


also have to live the rest of his life on earth and pay cash sums to


the Brown?s and Goldman?s. And he will also have to live and


watch his children grow up without a mother and see their pain,


the pain that he will experience in Hell.


The last Circle of Canto XXXIV, Circle Nine, Cocytus, is the


final and most punished place for souls. In Cocytus the people


were ?treacherous to their masters,? (Literature 641). The


punishment in Cocytus is given by Satan himself. The ?souls of


the last class (with fear my verses tell it) were covered wholly; they


shone below the ice like straws in glass,? (Literature 641). And


among these ice covered souls is the soul of Benedict Arnold, an


American officer of the American Revolutionary War. During


Arnold?s time as an officer he became one of George


Washington?s most trusted officers. But his deceit and


worthlessness was shown when Arnold ?sold his services to the


British,? (New Standard Enc. A-627). Arnold supplied the Brits


with valuable military information and agreed to turn over West


Point to John Andr?` a major in the British army. The plot fell


through and Arnold fled from New England to London where he


spent the rest of his life ?in obscurity poverty,? (New Standard


Enc. A-627). Now Arnold pays for his sins in the arms of Satan in


Cocytus.


Many souls truly repent and are sent to Heaven but some fail


to regret and are sent to Hell. These souls in Hell are being


continuously punished for their misgivings, yet some worse than


others. Although some receive worse punishment than others they


all pay dearly and reap what they have sewn in life. Hell is a place


of eternal agony and misery where the evil of the world spends its


spirit life. The Inferno, the eternal suffrage for the condemned.


?Arnold, Benedict.? New Standard Encyclopedia. 1982 ed.


?Jason.? New Standard Encyclopedia. 1982 ed.


?Medea.? New Standard Encyclopedia. 1982 ed.


Thompson, Eileen, ed. Prentice Hall Literature: World


Masterpieces. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.


1991.

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