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and what crimes he thinks are worse than others. At some points in the story he even goes as far as to justify or pity some of the sinner even after he knew their crimes. He could have also written it to entertain. After all it is called The Divine Comedy. This book could bring an attraction from the audience from saying “Hey, if I do this, I will end up here.” It brings this relief to people also by people imagining that bad people where bad people will end up. Old AP questions Possible…

Plato’s Position on Justice in Comparison to Dante and Machiavelli Plato asserts his position on justice throughout “The Republic.” His views constitute a model for how society should behave based on the values presented by Socrates in the dialogue. From Plato’s teachings we can infer that to establish justice, we must establish several principles in our lives including proper education, moderation, and courage. Although Plato describes how to live a just life through the metaphorical…

In Canto 3 of The Divine Comedy: Inferno, the pilgrim, and Virgil arrive at the gate of hell. They enter and as Virgil explains, the souls who had no goal in life, no direction, no intellect to choose God, reside here. They are the neutrals. They move along until they reach the river of Acheron where Charon, after a bit of hesitation, takes them across to the other side. On this side, there is an earthquake which causes Dante, the pilgrim, to faint. In this canto, Dante takes us through the…

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…

During the time that Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, the Catholic Church was very corrupt led by popes that were more interested in making monetary gains rather than being spiritual leaders. One purpose of The Divine Comedy was to express disgust with the Church of the time and to suggest what the reformed Church should look like. One way Dante demonstrates that he intended to present a picture of the ideal Church is by making his final guide Saint Bernard, a “critic of the institutional church…

Rebecca Adams DeVaney-Lovinguth World Literature I 3 May 2016 Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri is the author of The Divine Comedy, which is considered as a literary epic scale. This is characterized among the central texts that have been presumed from the Western literature and it is described as the unique and largest poem during the middle ages. Dante is considered as an activist, writer, and theologian who were born around 1625 in Florence and his literary works have always been used over…

One’s ‘sexual divine right’ is the integrity found within a person’s own spirit, united with the truth of God’s glorious harmony and devotion. Ultimately, a wholesome relationship with the Divine Creator of our sexual beings stands as the last thing the evil of this world would want. For chiefly this would provide humans the capabilities to gain “sexual…

Alighiero De Gelincine. Dante was a normal child learning at home how to become a politician, but then it all changed when the renaissance started. Dante then pursued a career as a writer. When Dante was in his late 40’s he wrote his most famous book “The Divine Comedy.” In his book Dante is tasked with going through multiple areas to get to God these three places being Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso…

path / How hard it is to tell what it was like, / this wood of wilderness, savage, and stubborn / (the thought of it brings back all my old fears) / a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitter” (1.1-6) In these very first lines of Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Dante, there is a foreshadowing of another dark wood to come ahead. When Dante and Virgil reach the second ring of the seventh circle of hell. They are met with the Woods of Suicides, where the souls that denied their bodies by…

Rachel Gold December 10, 2015 Mrs. Doucette Inferno reflection piece Option 1 Is there a relationship between sin and punishment? I think so. Each sinner of their circle had to match a punishment to their crime. In the first circle (Limbo) are the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans. The first circle are punished by living in a fake form of Heaven. A good example of how the two are connected. In the second circle the lust are punished. They receive a violent wind in this tornado and they are…