The Towering Inferno

The Canto starts off as a conversation between Dante and Virgil that has begun to last all day. The sun is setting and that causes Dante to prepare for the upcoming night. This giving him the virtue, Dante invokes the Muses help. Being afraid and doubtful of his ability he enlists the help of Virgil in a long way why he was the one chosen for the journey. He begins to compare himself to Aeneas, from Virgil’s Aeneid and also St. Peter both traveled in the Underworld and Heaven. Dante begins to…

The Inferno is the first part of an epic poem called Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. He narrates as himself going through Hell guided by a poet name Virgil. Together they go through 9 circles of hell which are Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. This is taking place in the year of 1300 during the Easter week. Dante describes in detail each thing he sees as he goes along and gets challenged along the way. To explain the torture of the Inferno that…

The function of a literary device is to provide a deeper analyzation of the structure of a novel or poem. In Dante’s The Inferno, literary devices provide the reader with a clear explanation of the journey through hell in order to better comprehend eternal punishment. TS Dante uses imagery in order to give the reader a pictorial aid of the actions within hell. Ex1 Sound imagery in Canto 3 displays the Opportunists torment, allowing the reader to explore the sounds within hell. Elab The first…

The allegories I have chosen are The Furies, or the Erinyes. The Furies are ministers of Hades. They follow his orders, or go off on their own to punish crimes that juries and judges can not. Punishments likely mean torture, physical and mental. There are three Furies, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto. Each one presides over a certain offense. Tisiphone presides over sins caused over hatred and anger. Megaera presides over sins crated with envy, and Alecto deals with crimes from lust and ambition.…

Hell is the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus(Ammer Dictionary). Hell is also used a numerous amount of times to describe tough situations. Hell can be related to something either spiritually, or the total opposite —— defeat. According to authors Charles Seymour, Charles Watson, and Jonathan Kvaning, Hell is not just categorized in the afterlife, but also in a physical sense. Hell is the punishment of afterlife,…

Muslims believe that they will be in a conscious existence while in the grave. While in the grave Muslims find themselves in an in-between state where they are questioned by angles about their religious beliefs. Muslims will meet their own Judgement Day, on this day they will be brought before God and their sins will be weighed. The ones whose record is in his left hand will face fire and torment, while those in his right hand will return to their families happily. At first some believers will…

“Thus, if the present world has gone astray, in you is the cause, in you let it be sought, and now I will be a true spy of it for you.” (Purg 16.82-85) For this canto, it is important to keep in mind that Dante is not just in the middle of his journey through Purgatory, but also the entire afterlife. Purgatorio 16 is the 50th canto of all the comedy and takes place in the third terrace, which is for wrathfulness. Here Dante encounters Marco from Lombardy, who is suspected to have been a…

DANTE Human suffering is always a hard subject to describe or experience in life or death. While reading Dante Alighieri poem called “Inferno” it describes the cycles of life and death. The fascinating part of the story is the detail description of hell, and the suffering the souls experience for eternity (Davis, Harrison, Johnson, Smith and Crawford, 2004). The question to answer is “Comment on the view of human suffering. How is it different from the Greek?” Although, Greek stories describe…

albiet gradually. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, written almost 700 years ago, was an important work as it explored the morals and ethics of society in his work, something that was just as uncommmon then as it is now. We know that the physical has changed, but just how much has the metaphysical changed? It is safe to say that the morals and ethics in our society has changed almost dramatically when compared to those that were present when Mr. Alighieri wrote The Inferno. Throughout his…

One by one, three damned souls, Garcin, Estelle, and Inez, find themselves escorted to hell by a courteous, yet mysterious valet. However, Hell is not the lake of fire filled with torture devices they all believed it to be; rather, it is a neatly furnished drawing room, built in the style of the second French empire. Upon the valet’s departure, the three souls are unwilling to state the reason for their damnation, Garcin claims he was killed for being a pacifist in a time of war and unrest.…