Virgil Tibbs

Canto 18 Dante and Virgil are outside the eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge. The circle has a wall along the outside, and has a circular pit in the center. The ridges create ten separate pits. This is where the people receive their punishment for fraud. This is where Virgil and Dante see souls from one side to another. The demons with great whips cause pain to the souls when they come to the demon’s reach, which then force the souls to the other ridge. There is an Italian that Dante…

poet Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, now leads him along the ridges to the Eighth Pouch, where they see thousands of little flames flickering in a deep, dark valley, and reminding Dante of fireflies on a hillside. Virgil informs Dante that each flame contains a sinner, and that in this pouch are the damned souls of the Evil Counselors, or people who used their intelligence for evil purposes. Dante sees what appear to be two souls contained together in one flame, and Virgil…

Dante creates a certain type of connection between a soul’s sin on Earth and, the punishment he or she shall receive in Hell. This idea provides many of Inferno’s moments of the imagery between good and evil, the symbolic power of each circle and what it represents, not only to Dante but the reader; as well as shedding a light on one of Dante’s major themes expressed throughout the book: the perfection of God’s justice. “The inscription over the gates of Hell in Canto III explicitly states that…

As the saying goes, “women: you can’t live with them; you can’t live without them.” In The Aeneid, composed by Virgil, the protagonist Aeneas comes into contact with a multitude of women who either facilitate or inhibit his mission of founding a new home for the Trojans to settle. Creusa is Aeneas’ first wife who is responsible for telling him about his destiny and offering him peace in times of loss; Dido is the Carthaginian Queen who is filled with love for Aeneas by Venus in an attempt to…

Every religion has their view of where people go after they die and the Jewish religion has their own view that is different than other religions. Someone might relate the Holocaust to Hell on earth but there is another type of Hell were souls who are to be punished must go. Every soul must go somewhere, sadly there are some wicked people who deserve to be punished for cruel acts they commit when they are alive. Judaism do not seem to view the afterlife of there being a Hell but more like a…

This article attempts to define whether literary patronage existed in Roman elegists’ literary relationships. To be more specific, Gold uses the idea that should a literary patronage exist, then could it be interpreted in the context of being a socio-historical document or a literary artifact? In order to explore the overall question, Gold acknowledges the fact that there is a lack of evidence about whether our understanding of the word patronage can be applied to the Romans at all as the Roman…

Satan is an evil figure who appears in the Bible and many other stories, like Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Satan brings evil, temptation, and leads humanity to not believe in God. Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost are two books which he described Satan and hell in there own fairly different and similar ways. Dante’s Inferno levels of hell is separated into nine levels which are spheres, and in each level is a different punishment which progress to get worse and worse…

Chuck Palahniuk’s interesting novel Damned, reimagines common archetypes of hell. Palahniuk gives a more modern view on what it’s like to be trapped in hell. Madison Spencer, the protagonist, after an untimely death is trapped in hell. Throughout the novel she meets famous people and demons from history. Palahniuk’s satire pokes fun at society, while still telling a story of epic proportions. Damned gives various descriptions of hell and the events that transpire down there. Also the book…

A person’s life experiences heavily influence the way one views the world, and it is safe to say that two people will never perceive something in an exactly identical manner. These differences make up the world, and add to the diversity of thought that belong to a work of literature. Virgil’s The Aeneid conveys a myriad of concepts, all of which are open to the reader’s personal interpretation. For instance, Robert Fagles, who translated Virgil’s epic, viewed it as a dedication to Roman…

(Dis); three ladies to pray for protagonist; and so on. “O, what a marvel it appeared to me, when I beheld three faces on his head! The one in front, and that vermilion was;” (Inferno, 34.37-39). This stanza is when Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, see Dis for the first time. Dante sees a giant with three faces, Dis, in front of him. Here,…