Inferno

In researching the story Inferno by Dante Alighieri, we will look at the intriguing journey Dante takes throughout his life. At this particular moment in life, Dante falls asleep and once awaken he comes to the realization that he is lost. “Midway along the journey of our life / I woke to find myself in a dark wood, / for I had wandered off from the straight path.” (Puchner, 1053) A journey that he will share with Virgil as his guide. Virgil will help guide Dante through their journey to Hell…

Many sinful souls have been lost to the dark evil abyss called hell. In the story of Dante's "The Inferno" suggest that there is a great amount of severity of violence in the levels of hell. It is well known in the circles of hell that there is violence in the form of mentality, physically and sometimes both due to the sins one committed. However, we can compare and contrast as the levels of hell increase that the violence does also. As Dante journeys through the pits of hell with his…

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” by Dante Alighieri. This shows a little into Dante’s thinking as he ranked moral failures through his structure of hell. In Dante’s Inferno there are nine different circle or levels of hell. In these circle there are different punishments for the different sins people commit throughout their life. The worst the sin is that you commit, the lower in hell you go and the worst your punishment…

The Wood of the Suicides The Wood of the Suicides are punished in Circle Seven of Dante’s Inferno. Dante classifies suicide as a sin of violence. Although most would have pity on those who mercilessly ended their own life in order to achieve a seemingly better alternative, Virgil rebukes Dante for having such feelings. One would think such an act would be a result of those who possess nothing but contempt and disdain for themselves and the life God has given them. Suicide, an overvaluing of…

In The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante shows how reading matters in life. There are many reasons of why Dante wrote The Divine Comedy one of them is for literacy purposes. He wrote the comedy in Tuscan Italian instead of Latin; even though, Italian had not been standardized into one language yet. Dante’s Comedy was one of the Italian writing and it became the language that all educated could understand and study. He may have written the comedy for revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote…

Since Francesca and Paolo engaged in a love affair upon their death they were sentenced to hell. When they received their judgement, they were sent to circle 2, the lustful. They were sentenced here because the both of them committed a sin through their love affair. Then upon speaking to Francesca she tells him about what she went through while she was alive and living her life with her husband. While speaking, she continues to shift blame on to others and not herself but she also speaks of how…

When thinking of Hell and what it may be like, one may turn to Dante’s work of epic poetry, Inferno, for guidance as it sets up Dante’s idea of what Hell is like and how sinners are organized. It becomes obvious that Dante looks upon his Christian values to determine his idea of Hell, but it may also be thought that Dante uses his knowledge and personal feelings of the people he condemns as well as his own life experiences as a guide to determine where in Hell sinners will go. This is apparent…

define the idea of freedom, there must be a distinction between different views of freedom. Since autonomy encompasses a vast range of notions, by taking a look at what a freedom is not, then a sense of freedom can be narrowed down. From the work, The Inferno the main character Dante is placed in an unfamiliar setting and begins the process of grasping his independence. Dante Alighieri purposely uses…

If you were to ask me what color hair I have or what color eyes, I would be able to answer your question. But what I never realized before reading The Inferno is that everyone and anyone can see me better than I can see myself. Sure I can simply look in a mirror, but that would provide me with nothing more than a mere reflection. The one person you can never truly lay your eyes on is yourself, for only others can actually see you. The same can be said about sin. One can easily look at someone…

Mr Scharfen Period 6 14 May 2016 Heart of Darkness Comparison After reading the poems Dante's Inferno, The Hollow men and watching the movie Apocalypse Now, i discovered that their are many themes that are similar to the Heart of Darkness. For example in the Heart of Darkness Marlowe, the protagonist says many things about human nature that directly reference t the poem Dante's Inferno. Or how Kurts, the antagonist in the Heart of Darkness, is inhumane and very similar to void like…