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Shakespeare’s Defense of the Divine Right of Kings Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragic story about a trusted nobleman who after having risen to be the second most important man in his kingdom through his heroism in killing a traitor, becomes a traitor himself by murdering his king. The message of Shakespeare’s play was about Divine Right which is the concept that the power of the King comes from God. The play is a moralistic tale of the consequences of treason through usurpation which is treason…

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri was written in the 14th century. The epic was originally written in Italian, and over the course of time multiple translations were made, which led to multiple versions of the original text. This essay compares and contrasts the translations of Robert Pinsky(1994) and Lawrence Binyon(1933), and will focus on the opening. Although very similar, the two translations provide new perspectives through diction. The two translations provide an expansion on the original…

died a few years after he was born. At age 12 he was arranged to be married with a daughter of a family friend whose name was Gemma Donati. They married around 1285 but he was in love with Beatrice Portinari. Beatrice would be a huge influence on the Divine Comedy. Dante and Beatrice met when she was 9, it was thought to be love at first sight. They knew each other for years and he secretly loved her from afar. Unfortunately, she died in 1290. Around the time of her death he began to heavily…

three had close ties to Florence. Dante is most known for “The Divine Comedy”. This epic poem “The Divine Comedy” consisted of three sections, Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In the first section, hell or the inferno, Dante rebukes and despises sin. Dante must first experience Hell before he can experience the opposite. Dante often mentions that sinners get punished for their sin based on how it was viewed in their time period. In “The Divine Comedy”, Dante confronted many issues that affected his…

sink and him’” (VIII, 50-51), which Virgil happily gratifies it. So when Argenti is immediately attacked by the other Wrathfuls, the fact that Dante “praise[s] and thank[s] God for it” (VIII, 57), proves that This again reinforces the concept of divine justice by showing that the cruel and unusual punishments that Dante designed are not merely to shock onlookers. Using contrapasso, which means justice in which one’s crime is used to punish him, Dante makes the Wrathfuls attack each other; and…

Niko Dimalaluan Armstrong English 9 3 December 2015 Divine Intervention in the Odyssey Homer’s classic epic (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) The Odyssey is about Odysseus and his return to his people in Ithaca several years after the Trojan War. Having made a mistake that angered Poseidon at the beginning of the story, Odysseus is made a hero seeking to return. Throughout his journey to his people in Ithaca, Odysseus faces adversity he sometimes overcomes himself. Although this is the case,…

Dante Alighieri (Dante) was born in May 1265. His family had involvement in the Florentine politics. Due to his family’s political duties, Dante was able to meet and befriend many aristocrats such as Guido Cavalcanti, who is later found in Dante’s Inferno. Dante married into the Donati family, yet his true love was a woman named Bice, although he called her Beatrice. Bice, to most scholars, was the daughter of Folco Portinari, a wealthy banker at the time, and later the wife of another banker,…

As many of you probably haven’t heard of the Divine Nine which consist of 9 different African American fraternities and sorority organizations which has been a pivotal part of African American history and culture since the early 20th century. Which are the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Phi Beta Sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity. In the early 1900s, African…

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…

texts. The first theme, divine justice, is an especially interesting similarity between both stories as the characters within the two accounts seem to have their fates and actions decided by higher powers. The second theme, a journey, is quite possibly the…