Inferno

[snakevin]

Well, to have the most impact, you'll want to go with relatively recent public figures.

Joseph McCarthy would be a nice addition to the 7th level for his perpetuation of the Red Scare.
Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Rosenbergs would be real good choices to put in the 9th Circle.
Bin Laden would be good, if you can do it right. Don't damn him for being a murderer (which he is), but instead damn him for twisting the message of God for his own gain. 6th Circle for him.
You can have all kinds of punishments lined up for corrupt church officials. Personally, I'd see the priests who molested children damned to the 9th for betraying God.

Stalin, and Hitler are good as a passing reference, but we all know that they're going to hell. It won't have as much impact as having, say, Harry Truman, the United States president that authorized the use of the Atom Bomb on Japan. Basically, what I'm trying to say is your play will resonate better if you use people you normally wouldn't expect. Bonus points if the people are popular.

I'm not as good with Canadian History as I should be, but if you know any prominent people in Canadian culture that deserve damnation, definitely go for it.

So putting McCarthy in the 7th circle! I Hate that guy! I also see what you are getting at, I need to pull the unexpected, but need to have some expecteds in there too

 

[snakevin]

Gilgamesh? Stalin? Mao? Some Pope? Leopold II of Belgium? Leopold was a vicious disgusting man, you should definetly include him in the play. He "owned" Kongo, it wasn't a colony, he fucking "owned" all the people there. And he treated the natives like animals, cutting of their hands if they didn't work fast enough... He was the animal

For a second, I thought you said Gargamel from The Smurfs!

Hahaha nah, I watched Pokemon instead Don't know any smurfs. Oh and Marx shouldn't be in hell. At all

I agree, if Heaven did exist, he should have his own section, but I do need a guide....

Hahahaha ah that was a good one

Hm a guide? Well the way I understand it, it can be a contemporary philosopher, poet, writer. Virgil wasn't sent to hell was he? He was a guide because, well they were both Italians, Dante and Virgil (DMC eh? ). So your guide doesn't have to be evil? Instead someone wise, who can explain to you everything about hell.

He was sent to Limbo, because he died before Chistianity existed

 

[Caligulove]

If you want to make a statement on something, you should have a character who is just "visiting" or "checking in" to a circle of Hell to make sure things are going well.
Like Dick Cheney or something, make him out to be an agent of Hell. Won't get too many objections.

A better idea, though, if you want to do something about Dante's Inferno- you should make the brutally honest version. Show Dante as the hack he was. How he wrote himself into classical literature, because he thought he was just so amazing and couldn't wait around for someone to write something epic about the awesome things he knew he was going to do in his life. Not to mention he had to canonize his "relationship" with Beatrice and believe they were true lovers- so that no one would look back and realize that he was basically Beatrice's stalker.
And then we canonized his piece of fanfiction

Dante was a tool. Make it a comedy about him.

 

[snakevin]

If you want to make a statement on something, you should have a character who is just "visiting" or "checking in" to a circle of Hell to make sure things are going well.
Like Dick Cheney or something, make him out to be an agent of Hell. Won't get too many objections.

A better idea, though, if you want to do something about Dante's Inferno- you should make the brutally honest version. Show Dante as the hack he was. How he wrote himself into classical literature, because he thought he was just so amazing and couldn't wait around for someone to write something epic about the awesome things he knew he was going to do in his life. Not to mention he had to canonize his "relationship" with Beatrice and believe they were true lovers- so that no one would look back and realize that he was basically Beatrice's stalker.
And then we canonized his piece of fanfiction

Dante was a tool. Make it a comedy about him.

That could work, I was reading a summary of the book, and he seemed to thing he was the big thing

 

[snakevin]

Gilgamesh? Stalin? Mao? Some Pope? Leopold II of Belgium? Leopold was a vicious disgusting man, you should definetly include him in the play. He "owned" Kongo, it wasn't a colony, he fucking "owned" all the people there. And he treated the natives like animals, cutting of their hands if they didn't work fast enough... He was the animal

For a second, I thought you said Gargamel from The Smurfs!

Hahaha nah, I watched Pokemon instead Don't know any smurfs. Oh and Marx shouldn't be in hell. At all

I agree, if Heaven did exist, he should have his own section, but I do need a guide....

Hahahaha ah that was a good one

Hm a guide? Well the way I understand it, it can be a contemporary philosopher, poet, writer. Virgil wasn't sent to hell was he? He was a guide because, well they were both Italians, Dante and Virgil (DMC eh? ). So your guide doesn't have to be evil? Instead someone wise, who can explain to you everything about hell.

He was sent to Limbo, because he died before Chistianity existed

Aaahaa... Wow. He went to hell because the religion didn't exist... Anyway, well alright. Now I see why people wanted to put in Marx. He was an atheist (Woho!! ). In that case, Marx works brilliantly Funny enough

It would suck to be in limbo. I mean, there is no eternal torture, but then, there is no eternal bliss. A life of bleakness and nver being granted perfect harmony.

 

[Kryzantine]

Gilgamesh? Stalin? Mao? Some Pope? Leopold II of Belgium? Leopold was a vicious disgusting man, you should definetly include him in the play. He "owned" Kongo, it wasn't a colony, he fucking "owned" all the people there. And he treated the natives like animals, cutting of their hands if they didn't work fast enough... He was the animal

For a second, I thought you said Gargamel from The Smurfs!

Hahaha nah, I watched Pokemon instead Don't know any smurfs. Oh and Marx shouldn't be in hell. At all

I agree, if Heaven did exist, he should have his own section, but I do need a guide....

Hahahaha ah that was a good one

Hm a guide? Well the way I understand it, it can be a contemporary philosopher, poet, writer. Virgil wasn't sent to hell was he? He was a guide because, well they were both Italians, Dante and Virgil (DMC eh? ). So your guide doesn't have to be evil? Instead someone wise, who can explain to you everything about hell.

He was sent to Limbo, because he died before Chistianity existed

Aaahaa... Wow. He went to hell because the religion didn't exist... Anyway, well alright. Now I see why people wanted to put in Marx. He was an atheist (Woho!! ). In that case, Marx works brilliantly Funny enough

It would suck to be in limbo. I mean, there is no eternal torture, but then, there is no eternal bliss. A life of bleakness and nver being granted perfect harmony.

Isn't limbo actually a temporary place, where people must wait before they can enter heaven because they didn't get all of their sins absolved?

 

[Ubilaz]

How about you use Gary Ridgway (The Green River Killer). You could put him in the violence circle of hell.

 

[snakevin]

Gilgamesh? Stalin? Mao? Some Pope? Leopold II of Belgium? Leopold was a vicious disgusting man, you should definetly include him in the play. He "owned" Kongo, it wasn't a colony, he fucking "owned" all the people there. And he treated the natives like animals, cutting of their hands if they didn't work fast enough... He was the animal

For a second, I thought you said Gargamel from The Smurfs!

Hahaha nah, I watched Pokemon instead Don't know any smurfs. Oh and Marx shouldn't be in hell. At all

I agree, if Heaven did exist, he should have his own section, but I do need a guide....

Hahahaha ah that was a good one

Hm a guide? Well the way I understand it, it can be a contemporary philosopher, poet, writer. Virgil wasn't sent to hell was he? He was a guide because, well they were both Italians, Dante and Virgil (DMC eh? ). So your guide doesn't have to be evil? Instead someone wise, who can explain to you everything about hell.

He was sent to Limbo, because he died before Chistianity existed

Aaahaa... Wow. He went to hell because the religion didn't exist... Anyway, well alright. Now I see why people wanted to put in Marx. He was an atheist (Woho!! ). In that case, Marx works brilliantly Funny enough

It would suck to be in limbo. I mean, there is no eternal torture, but then, there is no eternal bliss. A life of bleakness and nver being granted perfect harmony.

Isn't limbo actually a temporary place, where people must wait before they can enter heaven because they didn't get all of their sins absolved?

Well, actually, you're thinking of purgatory

 

[snakevin]

Hmm, I seems to be lacking some gluttons, come on guys, name some of the most gluttonous dead people you know

 

[snakevin]

so guys, here is the list of possible maybes so far, if I am correct. Al Capone, Stalin, Tomas de Torquemada, Vlad Tepes, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Bonnie and Clyde, Saddam Hussein, L. Ron Hubbard, Pope Andrew IV, Anton LaVey, Jeffery Dahmer, John Wilks Boothe, Jack the Ripper, Superman, Kurt Cobain, Karl Marx, Joseph McCarthy, Lee Harvey Oswald and Benedict Arnold

 

[snakevin]

Crap, the thread is dying down, but I still need more souls to condemn to Hell, keep them coming, please guy?

 

[snakevin]

Please, just a couple more people, that is all I ask

 

[Wolfenhawk]

For Gluttons, Dante tended to make up his own characters (like Ciacco)... I'd follow his tradition and use it to screw with some things for comedic effect.

If you really want something, I guess you could also use deities or demons from other religions, no? Even if you don't wish to offend people; for example, take Mara, a Buddhist demon who (in myth, this is not necessarily a belief among all Buddhists) was the tempter of the Buddha while he sat under the Bodhi tree, or the Greco-Roman gods (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Aries, etc).

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Also, guys, remember, when you list someone, place them in what hell would be appropriate for them, The hells in order are
1. Limbo ( people born without knowledge of God)
2. Lust
3. Gluttony
4. Greed
5. Wrath and Sullenness
6. Heresy (Having a radical opinion that differs from that of the word of God)
7. Violence
8. Fraud
9. Betrayal

Al Capone would probably be in violence, but he could also be in fraud (for all the things he lied about and stuff) or lust (because he died of an STD (syphilis, to be exact))

 

[snakevin]

For Gluttons, Dante tended to make up his own characters (like Ciacco)... I'd follow his tradition and use it to screw with some things for comedic effect.

If you really want something, I guess you could also use deities or demons from other religions, no? Even if you don't wish to offend people; for example, take Mara, a Buddhist demon who (in myth, this is not necessarily a belief among all Buddhists) was the tempter of the Buddha while he sat under the Bodhi tree, or the Greco-Roman gods (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Aries, etc).

But I want to do real people,or fictional people, but not gods though

 

[I am Jack's profile]

Robert Pickton, Why has nobody mentioned him yet

 

[snakevin]

Robert Pickton, Why has nobody mentioned him yet

Heard about that guy, really creepy

 

[Wolfenhawk]

Oh, and no Ted Bundy? :O

Or how about a mention of Sean Sellers? He was famous for murdering and claiming to be a Satanist, then converting in prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Sellers