Inferno

This historical context in this novel impacts the understanding of characters, plot, events, and conflict. The French revolution was taking place during the time in which Dantes was thrown into prison. Dantes had gotten himself thrown into jail because he was thought to be working for the Bonapartist party “with a letter to the Bonapartist party of Paris” (Dumas 23). They people around him were for King Louis XVI and despised the other party. Also this was during the time when food was becoming…

People will define love in many different ways, and will say love changes as you grow up and discover yourself more. Many also say love changes you for either the better or for the worse. Love is something not many can describe with one word, but more by actions. In the book of Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Saenz, and in Eleanor and Park by Rowell, both of the main characters will do anything including risking themselves for the one that they love. In the book…

Raven Shephard World Literature Response #4 Question: Think of a character in history or popular culture that does not exist in Inferno (so, you can't use Hector or Paris, for example), and decide where you would place them. Answer: According to the different levels of Hell, Limbo being not as bad and Treachery being the worst I would place the iconic Marilyn Monroe under the second circle of Hell, Lust. Marilyn Monroe is placed under this section because of the actions that occurred between…

surroundings can change who we are. Dante was changed morally and righteously after he had witnessed Hell and what would come for him soon. As the comedy begins, ‘Midway upon the journey of our lives, I had found myself in a forest dark…’ (Dante’s Inferno page 1), Dante is middle-ranged and very conflicted. He was lost, yes, but also lost in what to believe and how he falls upon in this life. After being told by the spirit Virgil that he could come with him and visit the spiritual plains for…

According to Dante Aligheri’s Inferno a person must do something good in life to go to heaven in death. Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, or as he is most often known as, Leon Trotsky deserves to go to one of the levels of hell. And based upon Aligheri’s criteria Trotsky belongs in circle nine, the bottom level of hell where traitors go and where Satan resides despite his divorce from Aleksandra Sokolovskaya for his lover Natalia Ivanova Sedova which would place him in circle two, the circle for the…

Giovanni Morreti was satisfied with his life. He avoided getting involved in the war between good and evil but when his only friend Ares calls he is unable to refuse. He travels to San Francisco in search of a witch that possess the power to help restores Ares’s nephew Hale’s soul. The last thing he expected to discover was this stubborn witch to be his mate. Ridge Alder can’t believe what Giovanni is asking of him. Ridge’s powers aren’t that strong and only work on humans. Giovanni convinces…

Only a few weeks ago, the stars aligned for the release of director Eli Roth’s long delayed horror flick, The Green Inferno. The film was about what you’d expect from the deviously perturbed mind of Roth – but it, like Hostel, packed a serious punch in terms of toying with the psychological mindset of viewers. This time around, Eli Roth is back behind the camera for the 1977 Death Game remake – simply titled, Knock Knock. In this horror-thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as Evan Webber – an…

he felt was real and not real, or maybe what he understood and what he did not understand? This was differentiated by many aspects of art as well as literature. They may be immense differences or compact differences. I will examine Medieval art, Inferno, and The Canterbury Tales to discuss all the pieces that come together to make someone earthly or divine. In Medieval art there are considerable differences between the earthly and divine characters in them. One of the first things I noticed was…

Beards and Dantean Influence in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire (II)”, author Russell Hillier makes the argument that London’s ‘To Build a Fire’ is not only highly allegorical, but is largely influenced by the works of Milton, specifically Dante’s Inferno. While it is widely known that London used much his personal experience in the bitterly cold and unforgiving Klondike when writing the story, it is equally obvious that London chose to incorporate certain parallels to Milton’s Hell,…

Without the influences from the Catholic Church, masterpieces, such as, Dante’s Inferno and Petrarch’s sonnets would not have resonated with the people, who were still interested in leading a pious life based on Christian values. In other words, the rise of secularism did not stop writers of the Renaissance from adhering to Christian…