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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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1. DANTE Inferno: use of our introduces the fact that Dante is both a character and a narrator in his poem, this story will show the good and the bad, about to possibly commit sin, Dante’s own experience
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Love, quick to kindle in the gentle heart, seized this one for the beauty of my body, torn from me. (How it happened still offends me!) Love, that excuses no one loved from loving, seized me so strongly with delight in him that, as you see, he never leaves my side. Love led us straight to sudden death together. Caïna awaits the one who quenched our lives. ”
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2. DANTE Inferno: Circle of Hell number 5, the lustful; Francesca and Dante talking, shows pity but yet Dante is the one who placed her there, using womanly charms in Hell, she is torn between imagination of her life and reality in hell
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There never was a wordly person living more anxious to promote his selfish gains than I was at the sound of words like these— to leave my holy seat and come down here and place my trust in you, in your noble speech that honors you and all those who have heard it!’ When she had finished reasoning, she turned her shining eyes away, and there were tears. How eager then I was to come to you! And I have come to you just as she wished, and I have freed you from the beast that stood blocking the quick way up the mount of bliss.
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3. DANTE Inferno: Dante talking about Beatrice, wants to leave holy ways as in his marriage to be with her
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“If that art they did not master, ” he went on, “that gives me greater pain than does this bed. But the face of the queen who reigns down here will glow not more than fifty times before you learn how hard it is to master such an art; and as I hope that you may once more know the sweet world, tell me, why should your party be so harsh to my clan in every law they make?”
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4. Dante inferno: Foretelling Dante that he will be exiled for 50 months and when he tries to return he will fail, man talking to Dante, shows that men in the underworld can tell the future, Farinata talking to Dante, political message, Cavalcanti talking
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The moment that the violent soul departs the body it has torn itself away from, Minos sends it down to the seventh hole; it drops to the wood, not in a place allotted, but anywhere that fortune tosses it. There, like a grain of spelt, it germinates, soon springs into a sapling, then a wild tree; at last the Harpies, feasting on its leaves, create its pain, and for the pain an outlet. Like the rest, we shall return to claim our bodies, but never again to wear them— wrong it is for a man to have again what he once cast off. We shall drag them here and, all along the mournful forest, our bodies shall hang forever more, each one on a thorn of its own alien shade. ”
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5. Dante’s Inferno: Wood of the Suicides, after last judgement they cannot claim their bodies, Pier della Vigna
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Remember my Trésor, where I live on, this is the only thing I ask of you. ” Then he turned back, and he seemed like one of those who run Verona’s race across its fields to win the green cloth prize, and he was like the winner of the group, not the last one in.
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6. Dante’s Inferno: Violence against nature, gives him dignity at the end of conversation, resepct to Burnetto in how he describes him
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So stay stuck there, for you are rightly punished, and guard with care the money wrongly gained that made you stand courageous against Charles. And were it not for the reverence I have for those highest of all keys that you once held in the happy life— if this did not restrain me, I would use even harsher words than these, for your avarice brings grief upon the world, crushing the good, exalting the depraved.
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7. Dante’s Inferno: Dante talking about the donation of Constantine to Pope Charles, corruption of the church, contemporary information
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’Brothers, ’ I said, ‘who through a hundred thousand perils have made your way to reach the West, during this so brief vigil of our senses that is still reserved for us, do not deny yourself experience of what there is beyond, behind the sun, in the world they call unpeopled. Consider what you came from: you are Greeks! You were not born to live like mindless brutes but to follow paths of excellence and knowledge. ’
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8. Dante’s Inferno: Ulysses speaking, in the circle of the deceivers, heroic devotion to investigation of truth, deceived his people, embrace the path of knowledge
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Lifting his mouth from his horrendous meal, this sinner first wiped off his messy lips in the hair remaining on the chewed-‐up skull, then spoke: “You want me to renew a grief so desperate that just the thought of it, much less the telling, grips my heart with pain; but if my words can be the seed to bear the fruit of infamy for this betrayer, who feeds my hunger, then I shall speak— in tears.
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9. Dante’s Inferno: Ugolino speaking, long monologue because he would not have admitted this story to the rest of society, elaborate language of hatred instead of love, lower circle has sinners who possessed a will to do evil, really grotesque scene, Dante doesn’t feel pity for him, ate his dead children then ate his captor
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In each of his three mouths he crunched a sinner, with teeth like those that rake the hemp and flax, keeping three sinners constantly in pain; the one in front— the biting he endured was nothing like the clawing that he took: sometimes his back was raked clean of its skin. “That soul up there who suffers most of all, ” my guide explained, “is Judas Iscariot: the one with head inside and legs out kicking. As for the other two whose heads stick out, the one who hangs from that black face is Brutus— see how he squirms in silent desperation; the other one is Cassius, he still looks sturdy. But soon it will be night. Now is the time to leave this place, for we have seen it all. ”
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10. Dante’s Inferno: Description of Lucifer with bat wings, eating the three sinners with three heads = perversion of trinity, once so beautiful = fall from grace, one who suffers the most = those who betray jesus
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But the time will come when I shall grow old and weak. Yama, King of Death, is secretly waiting to destroy me. Is there no way by which, instead of being born again on earth, I might live forever among the people of the sky?"
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11. Wu Ch- Eng-En, Monkey, Monkey talking about his fear of death, expresses desire to become immortal, even though he is already living a long life, moment of awakening, taoist concern of search for immortality, recognizing immortality is the first step towards religion
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What do you mean by unbaked clay in the kiln?’ ‘The bricks and tiles,’ said the Patriarch, ‘may be waiting, all shaped and ready, in the kiln; but if they have not yet been fired, there will come a day when heavy rain falls and they are washed away’
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12. Wu Ch-Eng-En, Monkey, Monkey talking to the patriarch that is teaching him to be immortal but trying to explain to monkey that you cannot simply learn how to be immortal but it must come from within, symbol that philosophy will not provide enlightenment you cant learn immortality, all illusions to what he should achieve
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If you are really so clever, jump off the palm of my right hand. If you succeed, I'll tell the Jade Emperor to come and live with me in the Western Paradise, and you shall have his throne without more ado. But if you fail, you shall go back to earth and do penance there for many a kalpa before you come to me again with your talk.
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13. Wu Ch-Eng-En Monkey, Buddha talking to monkey tricking him, talking him into what he could have because he knows that Monkey is very greedy, shows that monkey doesnt have any perspective of himself, does not display humility
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The immortal in the picture is Huang Shih Kung, and the other figure is Chang Liang. Once when Shih Kung was sitting on a bridge, his shoe came off and fell under the bridge. He called to Chang Liang to pick it up and bring it to him. Chang Liang did so, whereupon the Immortal at once let it fall again, and Chang Liang again fetched it. This happened three times, without Chang Liang showing the slightest sign of impatience. Huang Shih Kung then gave him a magic treatise, by means of which he defeated all the enemies of the
House of Han, and became the greatest hero of the Han dynasty. In his old age he became a disciple of the Immortal Red Pine Seed and achieved Tao. |
14. Wu Ch-Eng-En Monkey when Monkey sees the image of the immortal and the story is all about learning patience and accepting what is given to you which is a very important lesson for Monkey to learn, fellowship of the scripture, good things come to those who wait
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Seeing Tripitaka still hesitate, Monkey took him by the scruff of the neck and
pushed him on board. There was nothing for Tripitaka's feet to rest on, and he went straight into the water. The ferryman caught at him and dragged him up to the side of the boat. Sitting miserably there, he wrung out his clothes, shook out his shoes, and grumbled at Monkey for having got him into this scrape. |
15. Wu Ch-Eng-En Monkey Monkey actually helps Tripitaka gain his out of body experience, seperates himself from his body, gets rid of fear of death, cleansing
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And chiefly thou, O spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know’st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-‐like sat’st brooding on the vast abyss And mad’st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence And justify the ways of God to men.
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16. Milton Paradise Lost introduction very long sentences, death is a loss of innocence, knowledge of good and bad, loss of immortality, sets up purpose of book to justify actions of god, no precedence for Holy Spirit as pregnant deity, denial of a distinction between body and soul does not fashion out of chaos
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All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield— And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
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17. Milton Paradise Lost, example of Satan acting heroic, hope of leader if you are courageous and revengeful, since they experienced the tyranny of heaven is the reason they have arrived where they are, also political message to contemporaries, good leader but racked with despair which creates empathy
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Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed Out of thy head I sprung? Amazement seized All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid At first and called me ‘Sin’ and for a sign Portentous held me; but familiar grown I pleased, and with attractive graces won The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing Becam’st enamored, and such joy thou took’st With me in secret that my womb conceived A growing burden.
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18. Milton Paradise Lost, evil comes into the world when Satan willfully chooses to rebel against God, recalling how sin came about out of Satan’s thoughts,
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But say I could repent and could obtain By act of grace my former state: how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore; ease would recant Vows made in pain as violent and void, For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep, Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall.
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Milton Paradise Lost, admission of guilt, free will by god to choose evil or good, satan takes responsibility for his fall, asks himself if he could repent to god, only way to get back is to submit but he is too prideful and doesnt want to disappoint other fallen angels, he would do it again, redeems satan in our eyes but he does not do what he should, shows mercy of god so that satan has the possibility to come back
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The image of their glorious maker shone: Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe° and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men, though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed: For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
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Presentation of unfallen Eden to fallen audience from the perspective of fallen poet, talks about different ideas between men and women, adam created for god, eve created for adam thanks to god, eve does not serve god in connection to Lucifer, could be political connection to a non monarchic government
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Let let me not forget what I have gained From their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems: One fatal tree there stands, of Knowledge called, Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?
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Paradise Lost Satan jealous of happiness, learned from eavesdropping, only follow God because theyre ignorant or because theyre actually faithful, devises master plan to upset the happiness of Adam and Eve, can win because he knows of fruit and eve's vanity
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His fraud is then thy fear, which plain infers Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced, Thoughts which, how found they harbor in thy breast, Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear.
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Milton Paradise Lost, Eve talking, discusses that Adam does not trust her which effects their relationship, shows power of Eve, realizes that God set up an enemy in the garden that she should not posses
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O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve, Of thy presumed return! Event perverse! Thou never from that hour in Paradise Found’st either sweet
repast or sound repose, Such ambush, hid among sweet flowers and shades, Waited with hellish rancor imminent To intercept thy way or send thee back Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. |
Milton Paradise Lost, milton showing sympathy for eve who will be deceived, god set up eve for giving in to the serpent since she was not given the intellectual ability that Adam was given, who is to blame for the temptation? possibly adam's fault
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