Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As Dante journeys through the pits of hell with his guide Virgil we see many types of sinful souls in anguish. One must ponder if the punishments are conditioned with compassion and which punishments are justified in Dante's interpretation of the hell he envisions. Therefore, we also discuss Dante's…

the romanticism period, named Dante. Dante had a good life until one mistake changed his life. Throughout the movie god played an important role in everyone's life. Dante changed so much throughout the movie the biggest change was in his emotions. Dantes was a romantic hero. To be considered a romantic hero back in the day you had to have a secret, have a grim destiny, be mysterious, melancholy man who felt like he didn't fit in with society(Esler.572).Dantes had a secret when he…

seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle. In the movie, Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes looks as if he has the perfect life. He is about to become the captain of a ship, he is engaged to a woman named Mercedes, and he is liked by almost everyone who knows him. This amazing life, however, ends up dangerous because of the jealousy among some of Dantes’s so-called friends. And the revenge of Dantes. As a wise man once said, ‘Jealousy is a form of hatred built upon insecurity.’ Danglars,…

When reading The Divine Comedy by Dante, it becomes evident relatively quickly that the man put significant thought and planning into his saga. Yet, for all of his plotting, there is at least one thing that may seem to show a lack of thought. The way that Dante refers to his guides during the Comedy, Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard, is incredibly religious and venerable in nature. There are some options as to why Dante might have decided to uses such language. He may have thought these…

ideology. The Inferno, an ancient epic poem written by Dante Alighieri, describes a journey through the various circles of Hell, but there is one part of Hell that is very briefly described: The Vestibule. The Vestibule is the false home to those labeled “uncommitted”; the lost souls who travel the boundaries of Hell searching for their meaning. In lines 32-48 of Ciardi's translation of the third canto of the Inferno, Virgil explains to Dante that there are two types of people who inhabit the…

is known that both, Dante's literary style and his political thought greatly influenced the works of other authors during several centuries up to the present day. If it is true that Dante's popularity is due to all his works, it is also true that Dante acquired a huge popolarity for Divine Comedy which is said to be: "the literary work that in absolute has in its structure the greatest presence of different layers of speech, largely, but not completely and not always intentional and…

What is hell? The question has haunted humanity for ages, as our eternal future remains a mystery. Many sources have risen up to answer this question, from religious sources promoting a fiery place of torment, to philosophical sources that believe in nothingness. Many traditional sources are Christian concepts of a place for people who have done wrong to be tortured. These ideas have become ingrained in our society and belief systems, and that shows through heavily in Sartre’s work, No Exit,…

Dante is one of the most known Medieval authors, who published relevant works able to show how deeply he felt the social role of the artist and how he was involved in the political and philosophical debate of his century, so that his political/philosophical thought, throughout the centuries, has been subjected to various metamorphosis, which are strongly connected with the political and ideological situations of the historical momentum in which they occurred. This thesis aims to discover the…

The epic progresses as Dante continues to weep and feel pity for the souls in the 4th circle admonished for their greed. Dante, upon witnessing the torture of these souls feels physical pain out of empathy, "And I, who felt my heart almost pierced through…" Dante even deigns to make a moral judgement about the tortures of hell and God's ability to serve justice, "Justice of God! Who has amassed as many strange tortures as I have seen?" This questioning of God's will and judgement shows more…

change the world. In Dante’s Inferno, written by Dante Alighieri, nearly every punishment is intended to represent a contrapasso, a reflection of being punished equally for the sinner’s crime. Dante’s Inferno is an epic poem whose writing began in 1308 and was completed in 1320, which was a year before Alighieri’s death. It is considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. Dante first introduces his readers to the idea in the…