DENOTATIVE ANALYSIS

The story starts with the narration of the fall of Lucifer into Hell. Before he was one of the most important Archangels in heaven but, when he became the leader of the rebellious angels, he was was renamed Satan and he felt into hell.

The reader is plunged into the middle of the action. Satan, the fallen angel, falls from heaven into Hell with other rebellious angels. He immediately notices how horrible place was hell and he realizes the lasting pain that he will have to bear there. Here there is only darkness. But there are also flames, fire and fiery deluge like a great furnace. He understands that hell was a place without light, hope, peace and rest is the prison that eternal justice has prepared for rebellious like him, very far from god and heaven. The last exclamative expression of the extract makes the reader understand the feeling of despair that a person could have in front of the vision of hell.