Inferno

Journey to Hell Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet via himself as a narrator, introduces his journey to hell through his poem “ The Divine Comedy: Inferno” which is one of the great poem he wrote. He describes how middle of his age, he ends up lost in the woods, and how he tries to leave but he cannot, which is the beginning of Dante’s journey to hell in Canto 1. This paper argues that, going to hell is not an easy road and it takes a lot of misery and fear, the people who have made mistakes…

Art can be divided into the mediums of which art can be displayed. Art can be visual like a movie or kinesthetic like games or interpretive dance. Text is another medium for art and text can be expressive like poetry or it can contain a plot through a story. Stories can be broken down by length, short stories would be considered short stories while long stories would be literature. A plot, substantial length, continuity and artistic writing all must be essential characteristics in writing of…

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…

Kirsten Pace Dr. Rutenberg Western Civilization 24 October 2016 The Seventh Level In the book, Dante The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno, it has a main character named Dante who’s journey through Hell is the focus of the book. Throughout the book you see Dante’s journey throughout many different levels of Hell. He has a guide that takes him through the levels of Hell as a tour guide his name is Virgil. Virgil and Dante approach the seventh level of Hell in the chapter Canto VII, this is the…

Conscience plays a big role in a person’s judgement. In Crime and Punishment , after killing two people, Raskolnikov ends up feeling extremely guilty afterwords for pretty much the rest of the book. His consciousness makes itself known by making him very paranoid about others, and even before the murder by questioning why is he thinking of doing bad things. Because of all this guilt and mistrust, he ends up turning himself in. Although, one might argue that he believes he did not commit a crime…

Lay theologian, C.S. Lewis, projects his own conception of Heaven and Hell most prominently in his work, The Great Divorce. Here, he depicts Hell as being a place that is not necessarily eternal, but a place where one chooses to be and has the option to leave. Lewis states, “They lead you to expect red fire and devils and all sorts of interesting people sizzling on grids… but when you get there it’s just like any other town” (53). Hell is not this fiery furnace that society often depicts, thus…

. 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…

Moreover, not only is the presence of the three individuals in the ninth circle and last division an indicator of why they are the worst sinners, but also the punishment they endure helps in indicating how adverse their actions were. In the Bible, Judas Iscariot is the ultimate betrayer because not only was he a disciple of Jesus but also because he exploited his position to get riches and betray the Savior of the world. Consequently, Dante describes how he is enduring the worst punishment even…

In the case of Dante 's Inferno the range of sins Dante describes in his journey through Hell pertain to those found in Christianity, outlined in the Ten Commandments and Bible. Although the concept of sin and the associated punishments are meant to motivate followers into living…

Pound and T.S. Eliot, took as model for their own works Dante's oeuvre. In fact, Ezra Pound mentioned in his poem titled “Sestina: Altaforte” the Medieval nobleman Bertran de Born (lived in the late 12th century), who was put by Dante in the hell (Inferno Canto XXVIII) as he was suggested to be the one who turned Prince Henry against his father, King Henry II; while T.S. Eliot, in asserting that both: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them...” (Eliot, 1934: 266), he…