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Mommy’s Inferno, from Scary Mommy

May 12, 2022 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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“In his poem Inferno, Dante travels through nine separate circles of human suffering on his journey towards spiritual salvation. Now I’m no major Italian poet, nor am I on a quest to save my soul, allegorically or spiritually. In fact, I haven’t even read Inferno, which is part of the epic poem the Divine Comedy, since the first time I trudged through (parts of) it in college, but I am a Mommy of three little kids. I have learned that motherhood is both divine and, often, a comedy….and yes, there is suffering. Hoo-boy is there suffering. I think, had Dante been a Mommy, his Nine Circles of Hell may have looked a bit different…but no less dreadful.

[. . .]

“Dante had to figuratively travel through hell and back before enjoying the peace that came at the end of his journey. I guess that’s the point of Mommy’s Inferno….that the inescapable moments of suffering we endure as mommies makes us stronger, better equipped to handle the challenges that come next, and more ready to enjoy the light of the good days that always follow the darkest nights of motherhood.

“So don’t ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter’ motherhood; for, though the hours and days of motherhood be long, the years are short…or so I hear.”   –Sarah Harris, “Mommy’s Inferno,” Scary Mommy (published May 21, 2010; updated December 2, 2020)

Read the nine circles of Scary Mommy’s Inferno here.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2010, 2020, Abandon All Hope, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Moms, Motherhood, Parenting, Suffering

Hell, Inc. Webcomic: “Abandon All Hope”

November 21, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“I’m imagining that Hell has turned ‘abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ into a ‘New York, New York’ kind of jingle, which is why I knew immediately that I needed to draw Doug making ‘your name up in lights’ arm gestures.” [. . .]    –Jeff Martin, Hell, Inc., 2019

The Hell, Inc. webcomic updates Mondays on Patreon here.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2019, Abandon All Hope, Cities, Comics, Demons, Hell, New York, New York City, Web Comics

Succession Season 1, Episode 8 – “Prague” (2018)

November 3, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Succession is an HBO series created by Jesse Armstrong which showcases a fictional battle between four adult siblings to succeed their father, Logan Roy, as CEO of Waystar/Royco, a multibillion-dollar media conglomerate.

“In Season 1, Episode 8, entitled ‘Prague,’ Roman Roy, one of Logan Roy’s four adult children, recites a line from Canto 3 of Dante’s Inferno: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter.’ This is a variation of line 9 of this canto as translated into English by John Ciardi in 1954, the full line being ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'”    –Contributor Cesca Craig

See also the related post on HBO’s Succession here.

Photo and citing contributed by Cesca Craig (University of Arkansas, ’23)

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2018, Abandon All Hope, American Television, Black Comedy, Canto 3, Drama, HBO, Inferno, Satire, Television, United States

Deathink’s “Abandon All Hope” Poster on Etsy

October 23, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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Signed poster listed on Etsy by Deathink, owner of the Official Deathink Shop (last accessed October 18, 2021).

Content of the poster based on Rusty Cage’s Requiem of the Crazies comic series, posted on Dante Today here. Deathink’s “Virgil” cites Mandelbaum’s translation of Inferno 20.27-28: “Ancor se’ tu de li altri sciocchi? / Qui vive la pietà quand’ è ben morta.”

 

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: Abandon All Hope, Art, Comics, Etsy, Graffiti, Illustrations, Inferno, Pity, United States, Virgil

The Gaslight Anthem, The Navesink Banks (2007)

October 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“New Jersey band The Gaslight Anthem referenced the Comedy in their song ‘The Navesink Banks’ from the album Sink or Swim with the opening line, ‘All hope abandoned, ye who enter here’.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2007, Abandon All Hope, Gates of Hell, Hell, Inferno, New Jersey, Rock

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