Divine Principle

Did you ever have a friend growing up that made it his or her ultimate goal to gross you out? Wether it be by cracking their fingers, telling jokes, or tortures through smelly socks, it is guaranteed that you did not appreciate when your your friend teased you about such matters. Most people as they get older they mature and grow out of this kind of humor. What if I told you there was a man that never grew up. A man that became a director to channel his talent into what he considers an art form. A man who ultimate goal is to make you puke. I imagine that would be your worst nightmare, unfortunately this man is real and he exists today. He is known as the Prince of Puke, the Pope of Trash, Mr. John Waters is the grossest man you'll ever meet. John Waters was born April 22, 1946 in Baltimore Maryland (IMDb.com). Growing up, it was said that John Waters had an unbelievable obsession with violence and gore both in real life and special effects done for on screen. One childhood memory that John Waters likes to cherish, is one of when he saw real blood on a car seat in a junk yard. He spent the rest of the day fantasizing lethal car crashes. With John Waters, he treated this subject matter as something he was studying. He liked to read about serial killers and look into how they killed their victims. Often John Waters would attend course cases of gory trails all over the United Staes(IMDb.com). John Waters’ upbringing definitely served as a transit into his career in filmmaking.…

Dante creates a certain type of connection between a soul’s sin on Earth and, the punishment he or she shall receive in Hell. This idea provides many of Inferno’s moments of the imagery between good and evil, the symbolic power of each circle and what it represents, not only to Dante but the reader; as well as shedding a light on one of Dante’s major themes expressed throughout the book: the perfection of God’s justice. “The inscription over the gates of Hell in Canto III explicitly states that…

circles, rings and spheres, Dante and his guides meet different characters, because each of these places is concerning a different sin or virtue. (15) 6. Graphviz Visualization Software, a package of open-source tools for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. Graphviz is a free software under Eclipse Public License, available at the Web…

In reading Dante's works, a thoughtful reader can easily understand how deeply the poet felt the social role of the artist and how deeply he felt involved in the political-philosophical debate of his century. Consequently, it 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…

Sin has always been an underlying aspect of Catholicism, outlining the disciplinary system of the religion. Committing one of these determined immoral acts is considered an offense against the divine law, resulting in some form of eternal suffering depending on the severity of the crime. In the first part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the reader is presented an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. As the pair descend…

Contrapasso in Inferno by Dante Alighieri as Illustration of Justice Dante Alighieri, who lived from 1265 to 1321, was one of the major Italian poet and political figures during the Middle Ages period. He is particularly famous for a piece of literature which later made a major impact on the development of the Italian literature and the world literature – Divine Comedy, which he composed during the final years of his life. Dante 's Divine Comedy belongs to the list of the most gorgeous pieces…

In the Inferno, Dante takes us on a journey through the different levels of Hell guided by, ancient Roman poet, Virgil who enlightens Dante on the way. Through contrapassos, which literally translates to counter-punishment, Dante unpacks the punishment that sinners undergo. At the start of canto III, an inscription above the gates of hell reads “Justice moved my high maker, in power divine, wisdom supreme, love primal” (Canto III, 4-6). The interpretation is that God, the divine, created Hell on…

Rebecca Adams DeVaney-Lovinguth World Literature I 3 May 2016 Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, which is considered as a literary epic scale. This is characterized among the central texts that have been presumed from the Western literature and it is described as the unique and largest poem during the middle ages. Dante is considered as an activist, writer, and theologian who were born around 1625 in Florence and his literary works have always been used over…

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 main reason for which, some politicized activists authors as Foscolo, Rossetti and Valli, in some well-defined periods of their life, felt the need to re-inteprete Dante's oeuvre, whose readings stand out among all others of the same nature for their radical position and for a more…

Plato’s Position on Justice in Comparison to Dante and Machiavelli Plato asserts his position on justice throughout “The Republic.” His views constitute a model for how society should behave based on the values presented by Socrates in the dialogue. From Plato’s teachings we can infer that to establish justice, we must establish several principles in our lives including proper education, moderation, and courage. Although Plato describes how to live a just life through the metaphorical…