Divine Liturgy

Dante’s Inferno has many allegorical connections. With this phenomenon connections it made the text mean something much more tthan just a mans’ journing through hell. For full understaning of what Dnate meant in the Inferno you must have knowledge of the reacurring. The conections he makes to his chritain religion helps to bring light to most of the alligory in the Inferno. This includes symbolism of the journey of a lifetime, Gods’ justice, and the mystery of evil and hell. Dante’s Inferno is…

The Inferno: Where all Dreams Come True The fictional classic, The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is where all spirits recieved their biggest desires. This is evident wehn focusing on how the souls’ punishments correspond with exactly what they wanted in life. Examples of this include the heretics being placed ina tomb, suicides not recieving a body, and the wrathful fighting. In the Carnal Dante and Virgil met the souls of Francisca and Paolo. These souls were placed in Hell because they…

Throughout the 13th and 14th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church played a substantial influence on people which affected their everyday lives. Religion became involved in every political, economical, and social facet of life. Dante Alighieri who was a writer at the time was not able to escape its control. After reading Dante Alighieri's Inferno, I felt Dante was misunderstood, a man before his time if you will, and that a deeper understanding of Dante himself was needed to be able to…

In Dante’s Inferno, the uncommitted are destined to a deserved fate that represents the actions they chose or refused to choose in life. Dante encounters them on his journey to Hell. Their fate is constant punishment and torment for not following God. Although they do not commit evil acts during their life, they are deserving of this treatment since they never stood up for what is right. I feel that their decision to choose a side was a choice and was punished in the afterlife. The uncommitted…

In The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante shows how reading matters in life. There are many reasons of why Dante wrote The Divine Comedy one of them is for literacy purposes. He wrote the comedy in Tuscan Italian instead of Latin; even though, Italian had not been standardized into one language yet. Dante’s Comedy was one of the Italian writing and it became the language that all educated could understand and study. He may have written the comedy for revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote…

Deciding the accuracy of the order of sin in Dante’s Inferno, was not easy for me to initially question. Without much familiarity of Christian’s thought on sin, other than not to do them, I decided to start my analysis of Dante’s order of sin from the top. I agree with the placement of Limbo as being the first circle of Hell because the victims had no knowledge of God. My one question for this circle is if not knowing makes one guilty or innocent? Because this question seemed to philosophical…

Moreover, not only is the presence of the three individuals in the ninth circle and last division an indicator of why they are the worst sinners, but also the punishment they endure helps in indicating how adverse their actions were. In the Bible, Judas Iscariot is the ultimate betrayer because not only was he a disciple of Jesus but also because he exploited his position to get riches and betray the Savior of the world. Consequently, Dante describes how he is enduring the worst punishment even…

Dante, a living man, decides to take an adventure through hell to get to heaven. His guide is named Virgil. Virgil was a poet that Dante greatly admired. They voyage through nine circles representing different sins on earth. Each sin matches to one circle in this order:Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath and sullenness, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. In each circle the souls of the sinners are forced into punishments that fit their sin on earth. In almost each circle, Dante finds people…

When pity, as an emotion, becomes more and more profound, it increasingly comes off as sympathy. Over time, it evolves into compassion for those who are suffering given misfortunes. Undoubtedly, “pity and sympathy are based on an initial relationship of fellow feeling, or identification with the circumstances and feelings of another” (Walton, p.88). Dante uses his characters in Inferno to explore or conceptualize the pity concept. Based on the characters, he builds up unsettled moral standards…

Inferno is an epic poem, written by 14th century poet Dante Alighieri, about his descent and accompanying experiences through his depiction of hell in order to reach purgatory and eventually heaven. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy around the year 1265. He is best known for his D ivine Comedy a nd is known as the "Father of modern Italian." His works have left a lasting impression since his death in 1321. When a child lies, he is chastised harshly for it, told how very wrong it is.…