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at the end of the canto and compared his falling to as falling for death. As Dante mentioned before, each sin deserves an equal punishment but as we noticed before when Dante first starts his journey he tends to feel pity for the souls and as they get further along in hell it doesn’t affect him anymore. If Dante knew that all these souls committed sins in their life leading them to send their afterlife in hell, why make himself and the reader feel pity for the souls. In canto V with Dante…

But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such a book? (Beren and Lúthien 11) That, as a Danish prince once said, is the question. There are, indeed, no words of J. R. R. Tolkien here that have not already appeared in The Silmarillion or The History of Middle-earth, and there are many which have been left out. As Christopher points out in the preface, this particular tale changed dramatically over the years, becoming more and…

fraudulent in order from bad to worse to worst. Cantos XI is central to understanding how Dante saw sin through Virgil’s scheme, explaining the structure of Hell. How does Dante classify the different sins punished in hell? Why does Dante saw some sins as more serious than others? Incontinent means lacking self-restraint. This type of sin is place outside the Dis, including lust, gluttony, avarice, anger and heresy. Through the lines 76-90 in Cantos XI, explains all of the sins encountered,…

when Dante is halfway through his life and, he has lost his way. Not only in his mind, but he now found himself traveling through the dark woods, “Midway along the journey of life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, astray from the straight path” (Cantos I, 1-3), and the influences from religious figures in his life. When Dante speaks of having strayed from the right path, the reader should not assume that Dante has committed a crime. But instead, we start to see he has strayed away from what…

prominent in the 1920s. Thus, Fitzgerald portrays that not only Gatsby is guilty of this thirst for wealth, whether it have a purpose or not. Many Americans in this time period were subordinates of the sins of avarice and prodigality. The Seventh Canto of Dante’s Inferno is home to Gatsby, the newly rich inhabitants of West Egg, and many others alike. While Gatsby embodies West Egg, the Prodigal Son embodies East Egg – old aristocracy - easily inheriting and recklessly spending…

Dante Alighieri who was a prominent Italian author of the 14th century wrote Inferno to give insight on the society of Florence as the 14th century was notorious for its corrupt governments and rivals among groups of people. As being called the The Cautionary Tale, Inferno can be relevant today as it serves as a message of people committing sin will be punished depending on the severity of their wrongdoings. Even though the poem exaggerates the punishments, it serves as a message that people…

the Bible is saying, and be able to relate it to your own life so you can live as God wants you too. According to Christopher Kleinhenz , Dante used the phrase “venite benedicti patris mei,” which is Latin for “Come, my father” which Dante uses in Canto 27 when an angel speaks to him. Dante is a bit confused when the angel comes down to talk to him because he doesn’t know if the angel is for good or evil. Matthew being used shows how much God impacted his life while writing this poem. Virgil…

completely contrast with that of hate between Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. There stories may be kept at two different spectrums, but are in fact parallels of one another. Therefore, the story of Francesca and Paolo in Canto V and the story of Ugolino and Ruggieri in Canto XXXIII of the Inferno demonstrate the thin line between love and hate. Francesca was a young woman of her time expected to be in an arranged marriage by her father. One day when a Paolo came to her home, she was under…

Despair can be a great boon in the Christian life, but it can also destroy it. Despair, if taken to its most extreme conclusion, was seen as the unforgivable sin in the Renaissance (Snyder 50). To despair was to reject the only thing that could bring a believer out of his or her despair, for an “awareness of and sorrow for past sin, always the first step of fallen man on his way to salvation, may lead him into such self-loathing that he feels--and therefore is--beyond the reach of God’s mercy”…

some seem much less gruesome than others, such as the virtuous pagans ' punishment. In Canto XIII, we discover the fate of the souls who committed suicide. In Canto XIII, Dante 's opinion of the sin of suicide is one of the lowest, explaining the gruesome treatment of the souls.…