Monday, 25 June 2012

What is the punishment of the wrathful and the fallen angels?

Your
question was originally tagged with the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean
Myers (a Vietnam War novel), but you had listed The Inferno at the bottom;
so I'm assuming that you're referring to Dante's work.  If that is the case, then the wrathful
fallen angel, Satan, inis exiled to the pit, the inner circle of hell. Instead of being
the glorious creature that he was before his fall, he is a hideous beast who eats betrayers such
as Judas Iscariot and Brutus and Cassius (betrayers of Julius Caesar).  His punishment is
similar to other residents' of hell in that his ugly exterior represents his
sin.  Moreover, because he sought to subdue God and become the ultimate ruler, he is
not confined to the innermost circle of hell with no way out.  Dante's fallen angels are
different from Milton's (in Paradise Lost) in that they do not maintain as
much brashness or even their beauty as Milton's fallen angels do.

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