Divine simplicity

The Canto starts off as a conversation between Dante and Virgil that has begun to last all day. The sun is setting and that causes Dante to prepare for the upcoming night. This giving him the virtue, Dante invokes the Muses help. Being afraid and doubtful of his ability he enlists the help of Virgil in a long way why he was the one chosen for the journey. He begins to compare himself to Aeneas, from Virgil’s Aeneid and also St. Peter both traveled in the Underworld and Heaven. Dante begins to…

“What is hell?” According to Google, There are approximately 29,000,000 results for what hell may be. In Dante’s mind, there are nine levels of hell. Dante’s Inferno was written 545 years ago, in 1472. Five hundred and forty-five years outdated, it it time for Hell to be re-written. Dante’s hell is outdated, overly harsh, unreasonable, unfairly arranged and should consist of different people than those of who Dante chose. After all, if you are going to Hell it should be for those who absolutely…

The Inferno is the first part of an epic poem called Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. He narrates as himself going through Hell guided by a poet name Virgil. Together they go through 9 circles of hell which are Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. This is taking place in the year of 1300 during the Easter week. Dante describes in detail each thing he sees as he goes along and gets challenged along the way. To explain the torture of the Inferno that…

The function of a literary device is to provide a deeper analyzation of the structure of a novel or poem. In Dante’s The Inferno, literary devices provide the reader with a clear explanation of the journey through hell in order to better comprehend eternal punishment. TS Dante uses imagery in order to give the reader a pictorial aid of the actions within hell. Ex1 Sound imagery in Canto 3 displays the Opportunists torment, allowing the reader to explore the sounds within hell. Elab The first…

Megaera presides over sins crated with envy, and Alecto deals with crimes from lust and ambition. There are a fair amount of names to assign them, depending on what plain you glean the name from. In heaven, they are known as Dirae, or the ministers of divine vengeance. On Earth, they can be refersd to by three names, Furies, which refer to the madness that accompanies guilt; Erynnis, from the…

Hell is the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus(Ammer Dictionary). Hell is also used a numerous amount of times to describe tough situations. Hell can be related to something either spiritually, or the total opposite —— defeat. According to authors Charles Seymour, Charles Watson, and Jonathan Kvaning, Hell is not just categorized in the afterlife, but also in a physical sense. Hell is the punishment of afterlife,…

Muslims believe that they will be in a conscious existence while in the grave. While in the grave Muslims find themselves in an in-between state where they are questioned by angles about their religious beliefs. Muslims will meet their own Judgement Day, on this day they will be brought before God and their sins will be weighed. The ones whose record is in his left hand will face fire and torment, while those in his right hand will return to their families happily. At first some believers will…

After the events of the marvel and Capcom heroes stopping the threat of Galactus, Dante traveled far across the expanded world to find a worthy opponent to help increase his skills, that quest soon lead him finding himself face to face with the Ghost rider in a dark forest. Dante: Well aren't you a sight to see! Ghost rider: And who the hell are you?? Dante: Names Dante and I've been looking for a good fight in this boring little world you got here, I don't get too many calls for any demon…

From Hell is a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell; it is about the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. The novel depicts details about the Whitechapel killings in the Victorian era of London as well as speculating who Jack the Ripper actually was and the underlying motives. The art style that From Hell is depicted in is a combination of the naturalistic and cartoon modes. The naturalistic mode is just how it sounds, the art style in the comic book, or graphic novel, is similar…

1. Virgil is Dante’s guide, because to Dante, Virgil was the person that brought Dante honor in his writing style also he was a “famous sage” who represented reason. Dante respected Virgil and the wisdom that he gives which is why he was Dante’s guide. The nature of Virgil and Dante’s relationship was student and teacher. When they are speaking Dante even refers to Virgil as being: “You are my teacher”. 2. Dante was exiled because he was a part of the “White Guelphs” who opposed the “Black…