Divine Service

don’t want to go and is miserable. This is because the Inferno is the basis of what we think of hell. The Inferno is a poem that Dante Alighieri wrote in 1320 about his fictional journey through Hell. The Inferno is the first of three sections of the Divine Comedy and would become one of the most famous books of its time. Throughout the poem, the reader can tell that Dante uses his personal bias to portray and place different characters. Throughout the poem, Dante Alighieri places most of the…

Every day millions of people sin. In the Divine Comedy Dante travels through nine circles of Hell, observing punishments caused by different sins. The more severe the sin that is committed, the more severe the punishment is endured. Throughout history famous figures, people in literature, and current celebrities, have committed these nine different types of sin. I will be placing these wrong doers in the different circles of Hell discussed in the story. Circle zero, otherwise known as Vestibule,…

Dante’s Inferno The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri is the most notable epic poem produced during the Middle Ages. In the instance of the title the word comedy is taken from an Italian word defined as the prosperous ending after a difficult beginning. The Divine Comedy is a trilogy of poems the first being the Inferno, the story of Dante’s journey through hell. Two unique aspects of the Divine Comedy are that it was the first major epic to be written in Italian, rather than Latin, and…

Rachel Gaunt Professor Hall LITR201 December 26, 2014
 Dear Professor Hall: 
 While conducting a quick glance through the readings required to make a decision on which character I would choose for this assignment, my attention was immediately drawn to the female character of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”. It was at this point in time I had decided I would utilize her as the character who I thought would likely find themselves a spot within the Circles of Hell of Dante’s Inferno. That said,…

going to discuss the different views of The Biblical View and Dante’s view of Heaven and Hell. Dante’s views of Heaven and Hell in The Divine Comedy comes from biblical teachings, but he also throws some Roman Catholic religion in there. Back then when Dante was writing this Roman Catholic Teachings were very popular, and you can see this is his book. In The Divine Comedy, life after death come in three stages, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Purgatory is used strongly in the Roman Catholic…

Dante 's Inferno can not only be used to depict the evils of hell, but it also helps the readers go on this self help journey. Dante 's epic is known as The Divine Comedy and most people refer to it as one of the best literary works, for others it has been more than just a good read. Dante himself saw this epic as a way to help those in need, he wrote “if from the moral sense, it means to us the conversion of…

The work ‘sin’ has different meanings for different people. Most of the people believe that sin is a transgression of the law of God (The New Testament). There are people who do not feel strongly about the mere existence of such a divine power and, therefore, consider sin to be nothing more than an act that is not acceptable in a society regardless of the fact whether it goes against any religious views or not. Hence, I, to some extent, do not agree with Dante’s ranking of sins. This is mostly…

In life there is suffering. There has always been suffering and there will always be suffering; it is part of what makes us human. This is something that has been known for much longer than any of us have even been a part of the human experience. It is something that both Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare took note of hundreds of years ago and something that both of them thought was a topic important enough to explore through their respective writings Dante’s Inferno and King Lear. With…

Fear of the Unknown in Dante’s Inferno All humans have fears. Common fears are those of threatening or dangerous subjects. All the most common fears have a face or a name: a fear of spiders, a fear of heights, or a fear of blood, for example. Perhaps the most important fear, though, is the fear that cannot be named. The greatest threat is a threat that cannot be anticipated. All humans have some fear of the unknown. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno brings into focus the innate human fear of…

Can the devil be an epic hero? In John Milton's Paradise Lost- the great epic from the English Renaissance, this topic was discussed time and again. Numbers of scholars believe that Paradise lost should be one of the most outstanding products of the Renaissance, especially when talking about the question can the devil be an epic hero? Satan's speech allows us to view him as a heroic character, one who will not accept defeat. Milton's presentation of Satan is intriguing and it can be argued that…