There is a place, List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never-dying deaths.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This describes a hellish place of eternal suffering, where darkness and fire reign without hope of escape.
- In plain terms
- Hell is a dark, fiery place where people suffer forever.
- What can you take from it?
- Fear of eternal punishment can be used to control behavior.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does eternal suffering say about justice?
- How does imagery shape our view of the afterlife?
Another view
It relies on fear rather than reason to convey moral lessons.
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