Divine Principle

closer with God. Dante and Augustine both take on the similar journey to get closer to God, divine love and grace. While on their journey they were influenced by a man Virgil whom was a Roman Poet of the Aeneid. Even Dante and Augustine have different representation of their journey they both go through this journey very similarly and for the same reasons. Similar to Augustine in the story the Divine Comedy Dante’s journey starts lost in the darkness of the woods with a poet who portrays…

Dante’s Inferno written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300’s shows a descriptive fictional journey through Hell. It is one of the most well known books about this subject, even though it is not a real religious writing and is just plain fiction.“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost,”-Dante Alighieri. Dante expresses how great his internal struggle really was.Dante was going through a midlife crisis, but he did get more involved…

Fear is a fragile belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat, from the article The Science of Fear by Jules Oliviera. Morality is the principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Often times these two terms are thrown together, one depending on the other. In the book The Inferno there is a blurry connection between the two. As our hero descends through various levels of hell, there are threats in each one that seem to…

The Divine Comedy is the writer who narrates his journey towards redemption. The comedy takes place in the afterworld which is divided into Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise). These three sections are, in turn, divided into 33 Cantos each with the exception of hell which has an introductory Canto. The Florentine writer is accompanied by 2 spiritual guides along his divine journey. The prince of Latin poems, Virgil, in both Inferno and Purgatorio, and Dante’s divine…

Dante has shown the process of redemption through the course of his writings of The Devine Comedy. This is a natural process that he has taken the time to work thought and explain thorough his description of a trip venturing through the areas of Hell, Purgatory, and finally Paradise. The works show the effects of life on a person and what can be achieved if they focus on reaching up to return to God through their life. Life has it tendency to bog us down and disrupt our trip back to God with…

Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri remains a work that is one of the most haunting and influential works in Western literature, despite being over six hundred years old. The idea of Hell crafted by Dante has inspired many different people since it was written. It is admired for its vivid and horrible imagery, and the lasting impression that it leaves on the readers of this work. One of the sensory elements in Dante’s Inferno is the darkness that is all throughout the work. This is not just the…

Have you ever felt like you were going through Hell? In Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Dante goes through physical and emotional struggles on his journey through Hell. Dante is believable because he is dramatic, biased, and he shows emotion. Dante is believable because he is very dramatic. In canto one of the novel, Dante exclaims,” Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!” Have you ever been in the car and smelled something not very pleasant and thought it was the worst smell in the…

through the earth and hell. He winds up at the base of the heap of Purgatory on the opposite side. On the highest point of Purgatory there is the terrestrial heaven (the garden of Eden), and after that he works his way through the divine circles. It is the plot of the Divine Comedy and the account of Dante's adventure towards reclamation. The Inferno is for the most part thought to be the best and most fascinating part, which might be an aftereffect of its backwards structure. The ethical plot…

Dante’s profound Imagination The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous work by Dante Alighieri described the poet, Dante himself walk through the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and…

pits of hell. You may further fill in the picture with other beastly devils that roam around torturing damned sinners who will never see light of day, or those who turn cry out with pain, regret, and suffering. In Dante’s epic poem known as the Divine Comedy, he creates a unreal version of himself as he travels through the farthest reaches of hell (Inferno), purgatory and paradise In the second circle of Hell are those overcome by lust They are the first ones to be truly punished in Hell.…