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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…

In the first part of Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, Dante journeys through hell guided by the Roman poet Virgil. “Through me you enter into the city of woes, through me you enter into eternal pain, through me you enter the population of loss” (Dante 19). Dante entered Hell to embark on an epic journey through its nine circles of punishment. As he travels through the circles, he encounters many souls damned for eternity as reparations for their sins. At the beginning of the epic, Dante…

modern society. The main reason for that is an inherent presence of divine intervention into mortals’ lives. In the majority of cases, gods and goddesses have quite a specific, if not distorted, perception of justice. Moreover, divine justice does not seem to follow any uniform rules or be applied to everybody equally. “The Libation Bearers” by Aeschylus and Sophocles’ “Antigone” vividly represent the ambiguous character of divine justice. In the first play, Apollo directs Orestes to kill his…

The Divine Comedy is a three part series, written by Dante Alighieri, which describes the frustrations he felt, while in exile, pertaining to Florentine politics. The first part in the series, The Inferno, depicts Dante’s pilgrimage into the underworld of Hell. The epic describes Dante’s descent in an attempt to get back on a spiritual path. The Inferno was created with the purpose of telling the politics of Florence and combining ideas of Pagan and Greek religion (“Literary Background”).…

Not only is The Divine Comedy literature, but the most famous epic poem, The Odyssey, is literature as well. The Odyssey was written in a time when the only kind of recreational writing was poetry. Even so, The Odyssey contains all of the necessary components of literary…

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.…

As the first part of the epic poem Divine Comedy, the Inferno was written in the beginning of the fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri. Inferno describes the journey of its author through nine circles of Hell. For the whole duration of his journey, Dante is led by a poet Virgil, the representation of Human Reason who is familiar with many of the sinners in the underworld. Each circle in the epic poem illustrates a different type of sin with contrasting consequences, fluctuating according to the…

The Divine Comedy is a series of 3 books--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--made up of 33 cantos each, that describes life after death in an allegorical manner. The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri, an Italian author from the 1300s. The protagonist of the Divine Comedy is Dante, an allegoric representation of the author himself used to portray the author’s views on Christianity and sin. Dante further uses his character to demonstrate humanity's flaws through his nine layers of 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…

Throughout Dante’s Inferno, the narrator keeps doing one thing in particular: he sympathizes with nearly every sinner he talks to in many of the circles of Hell. Whether it 's for someone who lost their true love, someone who was put in a tragic situation, someone “unintentionally” involved in something sinful, etc, Dante feels sorry for them. Virgil, Dante 's guide, plays a big part in showing what (the author) Dante was trying to say- sinners don 't deserve sympathy. Sympathizing with sinners…