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Alexander Pope comments on this very form of cultural and economic cannibalism in “The Rape of The Lock.” In the first Canto of Pope’s mock-epic poem, he describes a young woman, Belinda, of incredible beauty and purity; upon her toilette sits “the various Off'rings of the World” (“The Rape of The Lock” 130). This line is intended to be satirical, as the offerings of the world are not enlightenment, self-actualization or some other grand treasure. Instead all the world has to offer are a handful…

Dance or Movement is a way to communicate, but not only that, it can work subconsciously through the use of hieroglyphs. - literal symbols of something. Dante’s Inferno is great for dance and specifically ballet because not only does it have a clear narrative but also ballet works through grand romanticized ideas and themes which are what Dante’s writings are full of. Dante uses inventive language and rich imagery that is far ahead of his time. The humanity in his poem, and themes he…

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is widely recognized as one of the greatest epic poems of the Elizabethan age. It may be also commonly assumed that Spenser’s poetry represents an archetypal convention of gender in the era. Though Spenser plays off the feminine conventions linking the figure of power, Queen Elizabeth with specific characters, for example, Una in Book I, traditional patterns of feminine stereotypes are still continually penetrated in Renaissance and Spenser’s portrayal of…

so it only seems fit to inquire about the special place in hell that Dante made for such vile individuals. “But turn your eyes to the valley; there we shall find the river of boiling blood in which are steeped all who struck down their fellow men” (Canto XII 46-48). Those who have killed a fellow neighbor are to boil in the river of blood in the afterlife of hell. That would appear to any sensible human a decent reason to not murder someone, as it would make sense that not many people enjoy…

In life there is suffering. There has always been suffering and there will always be suffering; it is part of what makes us human. This is something that has been known for much longer than any of us have even been a part of the human experience. It is something that both Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare took note of hundreds of years ago and something that both of them thought was a topic important enough to explore through their respective writings Dante’s Inferno and King Lear. With…

goes to hell, heaven and purgatory. This fresco illustrates the story behind the poem. This canvas is divided into thirds. Each third allows us to see the artists interpretation of heaven, hell, and purgatory. This represents the three categories of cantos. In the middle of all of these places stands Dante himself. Dante is wearing a faded red robe and has the Florentines cap on his head. Laurel is wrapped around the bottom of the cap. There is alot…

In Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 bestseller, No Country for Old Men, he presents the reader with an exploration of human depravity through the lives of three main characters. While two of these integral characters, Anton Chigurh and Llewelyn Moss, clearly display what society would identify as vice, Shariff Ed Tom Bell is presented as a weathered, virtuous man, who struggles to reconcile himself to the ever-expanding presence of evil in the world. Despite McCarthy’s use of Bell as a type of moral…

I will firstly discuss “The Rape of the Lock” and how Pope here makes effective use of the mock epic through the course of the poem. The opening of this poem is a letter written to the actual subject matter of the poem Mrs Arabella Fermor, in this opening letter he discusses why he wrote the poem, what inspired him to do so, why he published this piece and also his reasoning for dedicating it to Arabella. The poem is split into five canto’s. The poem begins with Belinda the heroine of this story…

religion plays a part in Dante’s poem. Because Dante chooses to include certain members of the popery into certain levels of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, he is telling Christians attitudes that get them into Purgatory, or even worse into Hell. It is in Canto XIX that Pope Adrian describes the suffering put unto those who were…

wrongdoing, and maybe, again, redeem himself. Ugolino recounts his story, telling Dante of how he and his sons were imprisoned and starved by someone he trusted, Archbishop Ruggieri, the man whose head he had been gnawing on at the end of the previous canto. While imprisoned, Ugolino’s sons died from hunger and Ugolino proceeded to eat them stating that “then fasting had more power than grief” (75). After hearing Ugolino’s story, Dante curses the city of Pisa, of which Ugolino was a traitor,…