Edmond Dantès

. Looking at the short story “Story of the Hour” from a Marxist point of view, the social structure plays an enormous role. In this story Mrs. Mallard should be grieving not only because she thought her husband was dead, but also since he was the provider of her household. Without him, how was she going to make ends meet and function as if he were still alive? But on the contrary, Mrs. Mallard felt free from the social structure of her being just a wife, who life was her family and husband. She…

his own art and philosophy. It begins when Dante is halfway through his life and, he has lost his way. Not only in his mind, but he now found himself traveling through the dark woods, “Midway along the journey of life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, astray from the straight path” (Cantos I, 1-3), and the influences from religious figures in his life. When Dante speaks of having strayed from the right path, the reader should not assume that Dante has committed a crime. But instead, we…

meaning, the literal and symbolic. In the story of “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri, an allegory can be seen in The Dark Wood of Error, the three beasts, and through Dante’s guide Virgil. In the Inferno, an allegory can be found in the Dark Wood of Error. Dante says “ How I came to it I cannot rightly say, so drugged and loose with sleep had I become when I first wandered there from the true way” (10-13). The literal meaning is that Dante wakes up and finds himself in dark woods because he has…

Dante Alighieri's first book in the divine comedy the Inferno is a religious epic that condemns those who are blasphemous towards the church but is also a careful condemnation of the power of the catholic church.Through the Pilgrim's journey through hell he sees and learns many things from his environment, the people he meets in hell, as well as his guide Virgil. However as he is traveling through the hellscape Dante is commentating about the state of affairs as he sees it in 12th century Europe…

1. Capaneus plays an important role in understanding the psychology of the sinners in hell because his rejection attitude toward God represents how the sinners think. Capaneus fought against Thebes, and he is guilty of blasphemy. This is one of the worst sins a person can commit. Because of his sin’s severity, Capaneus have to pay the price with the intensity punishment. Even though it is obvious that Capaneus cannot defeat God, and he can reduce his punishment by admitting his wrong, his pride…

Luckily, Dante so quickly and easily followed me into this journey, but it perplexes me how this can be the same person Beatrice implored me to help. I listened and continue to execute exactly what Beatrice wished. I write this as the naive boy happens to lie on the ground after seeing shades a couple steps beyond Hell’s doorway and experiencing an earthquake. Based on Beatrice’s words, I expected this guy to have a little more maturity, but who knows in this day and age. This fool should have…

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 committing suicide, and are now trees and bushes that are…

Dante was born in 1265 in a family deeply involved in Florentine politics, His mother 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.…

general culture, you know the poem that Dante Alighieri write in 1307 become a masterpiece and now, 709 years after, musicians, poets, writers, artist and even in modern things like video games, still making references to it. How can they talk about something so complex like Dante’s poem in culture today? People have a great variety of options to refer to Dante and his poem. Society creates a word for this, Dantean that means “relating to, or suggestive of Dante or his writings” (Merriam-Webster…

though he doesn’t know how to swim. A boy called Dante teaches Aristotle how to swim. Their friendship cemented when they realize they were both named after ancient philosophers. Both of these boys are american-mexican and while Dante’s teaching Ari how to swim, Ari is teaching Dante how to except himself. Aristotle and Dante quickly become good friends though Dante is shocked over the openness of Dante’s family. Both boys are inquisitive and Dante once proclaims that “One day, I’m going to…