Inferno

In both The Aeneid and Inferno, Queen Dido of Carthage is predestined to damnation. On the one hand, Virgil sees Dido as a notable queen who to her misfortune, becomes a puppet to the insatiable Gods . On the other hand, Dante Alighieri depicts Queen Dido as nothing but a treacherous creature. Within Dante’s Inferno, more importance is given to Dido’s lustful facet than to the fact that she commits suicide, and should therefore, be in the seventh circle of hell. Though Virgil and Alighieri…

Evil Concepts One of the major themes in Dante’s Inferno and Beowulf is evil when we look at today’s society we still see that evil still has a prevalent force in today’s world whether it be words or actions the evil that inhabits this planet makes its presence known. It appears that even though these works were written long ago the concepts of evils have always been a topic of conversation and thought and when those topics of morality surface we are often left with more questions than answers…

In brief, both Aristotle and Dante believed that man has a natural desire for the knowledge and that his love for the truth is imprinted in himself since his birth. Afterword, Dante reinforces this concept in the Divine Comedy: "That mortal, who was at his birth impress /So strongly from this star, that of his deeds/The nations shall take note. His unripe age/Yet holds him from observance; for these wheels." (Paradise XVII, 75-78). For Dante man, who is impressed at his birth, has the duty to…

Dante was forced to pull back from her neck when Jade pressed down and slide herself upon his up-curved and twitching cock. That vein laden rod was absolutely ready for her... it had been for what seemed like twenty minutes now. Blood would be licked from his bottom lip as he returned to sitting straight-up before her. Jade would not get any evidence of her new punctures because Dante had cleaned up the evidence with his tongue subconsciously. Because of the small but significant feast of her…

Comedy. It is divided into three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In Inferno, he describes his trek through the 9 circles of Hell, led by the famous Roman poet, Virgil. As they descend deeper into Hell, the sinners become greater and the punishments more severe. They see criminals of all kinds until they finally reach the center of the earth, where Satan himself resides. After clambering out of Hell, they see the mountain of Purgatory. That is where Inferno ends and Purgatorio begins.…

the straight 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…

There are 9 circles in the Inferno, and Lucifer is contained at its bottom, at the center of the Earth. He illustrates 9 rings on the Mount Purgatory, and the Garden of Eden is at its top. Then, Dante finds the 9 ‘cieli’, the celestial spheres of Paradise crowned with the highest part…

As Bruno pushed the group of Jewish men to one of the buildings with one of many gas chambers, the other German officers asked Bruno if he needed help getting the prisoners into the gas chamber? Bruno shook his head in response. “Don’t worry, they know they can’t run; even if they tried, they would be put through more hell than the mercy we’re giving them,” said Bruno, pushing the men. The other officers soon left, leaving Bruno alone with the group of scared and afraid Jewish men. “Please,”…

1. Virgil is Dante’s guide, because to Dante, Virgil was the person that brought Dante honor in his writing style also he was a “famous sage” who represented reason. Dante respected Virgil and the wisdom that he gives which is why he was Dante’s guide. The nature of Virgil and Dante’s relationship was student and teacher. When they are speaking Dante even refers to Virgil as being: “You are my teacher”. 2. Dante was exiled because he was a part of the “White Guelphs” who opposed the “Black…

Deciding the accuracy of the order of sin in Dante’s Inferno, was not easy for me to initially question. Without much familiarity of Christian’s thought on sin, other than not to do them, I decided to start my analysis of Dante’s order of sin from the top. I agree with the placement of Limbo as being the first circle of Hell because the victims had no knowledge of God. My one question for this circle is if not knowing makes one guilty or innocent? Because this question seemed to philosophical…