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Seo-Jun is 23 years old and the oldest child of two working-class parents. Her father is a heating and air conditioning technician, and her mother is an administrative assistant at a local community college. Both parents immigrated from Korea as children. Seo-Jun has one younger brother, aged 17, who she reports worring about what direction he is going in. Seo-Jun appeared normally dressed and is 5’2” tall. Her current weight was reported at 104 pounds.

CHIEF COMPLAINT/PRESENTING PROBLEM: She struggles to get to sleep and would wake up often. She also reported being so tired during the day “it interfers with everything”. Seo-Jun reports she hadn’t been interested much in food since mid-sophomore year. Her roommates insisted she get some help, which has now worried her, as she has gotten thinner. Seo-Jun admitted that she often has no time for meals and at times has “no appetite.” Her mood varies over the week, and she admitted to chronic anxiety and some tendency to get into “arguments” with her roommates, her body gets so tense when she gets irritated.

HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: As a freshman, Seo-Jun lived off campus with three other roommates. She has been waitressing in Tampa since freshman year at a bar/restaurant to supplement financial aid for tuition. She had very good grades (B+ to A) in her first semester of college. The next semester her grades started slipping and she began missing classes. She reported not having interest in school at that time but wanted to graduate for her parents. She had to drop at least one course (and is retaking it now) due to nonattendance. “This is because I don’t get enough sleep,” Seo-Jun said, and she stated that she was simply unable to wake up in time for that course.

PAST PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY: Seo-Jun does not report any past psychiatric history before the reports in the intake.

SUBSTANCE USE HISTORY: Seo-Jun drinks on weekends with her college friends. Seo-Jun reports beer bloats her so she now drinks vodka and cranberry juice mixed drinks. She rarely gets drunk. She rarely used alcohol in high school, due to her status as a varsity athlete which motivated her to limit her use.

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PAST MEDICAL HISTORY: Seo-Jun reports receiving all the childhood vaccines.

 

FAMILY HISTORY INCLUDING MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC: Seo-Jun’s childhood was otherwise unremarkable. She reported that she has always worked hard at school and generally was an “A” student through high school. She ran track and was involved in many activities, socializing with boyfriends and her wide friendship circle. She reported no particular difficulties with her parents other than fighting with them over her decision to leave the state for college. She worries often about how they are getting along since they still hold onto values and behaviors from their country of origin. After delaying admission for a year and working, Seo-Jun left her home in New Hampshire at 20 to attend college in Florida.

 

CURRENT FAMILY ISSUES AND DYNAMICS: Seo-Jun is now a junior. She still works long hours, and she recently took a course in bartending so she can serve drinks and make more money. She struggles to maintain a B grade point average while studying juvenile justice. She reports a high degree of worry about her grades failing.

MENTAL STATUS EXAM: Seo-Jun looks younger than her stated age. Her mood appeared depressed although she did seem anxious often. Seo-Jun states she is anxious and worries but it has been present for so long there is no sense in trying to control it anymore

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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