Virgil Tibbs

Dante Alighieri was a Late Middle Ages author who wrote The Inferno where he critiques the life of sinners and analyzes their punishments as they rot in hell. Whether it be the time of Jesus Christ, or the modern era, people have committed sins ranging from lust to betrayal of God, family, and others. Furthermore, the novel greatly criticizes those who do not follow Jesus Christ. It seems to be a common theme of being raised a Christian and somehow, about halfway through our lives, we find we…

Importance of Invictus William Ernest Henley is an author, poet, editor, and critic. One of his poems, Invictus, is a very detailed poem. At the age of twelve, Henley had been diagnosed with tuberculosis of the leg. It was then amputated, but later on it had spread to his other leg but he wouldn’t let the doctors take his other leg. Because of this decision he had to stay in the hospital for almost two years. During his traumatic stay, he began to write poetry. This is when he had written…

In the cold the tour guide pushes the boat through the water, and bodies in the water are trying to climb into the boat. That is the opening to Dante's Inferno, that when the main character enters hell it is not warm and just a short trip. Instead Dante is shown all the different levels that hell is made of by his tour guide. With this painting from Date's Inferno the reader can see the environment that is in hell and all those who it effects. In this painting the artist uses the mountains in…

poems is where poets like Shakespeare and Chaucer were greatly influenced (Wasson, 2017). The Golden Age had some of the most classical authors during the Roman Empire such as Lucretius, Catullus, Julius Caesar, Horace, and others (Wasson, 2017). Virgil was…

Ovid’s human characters in the Metamorphoses fervently revered their gods. These people held rites of worship and festivals for their divine superiors to prove their piety. To comment on the relationship between the human and the divine, Ovid’s narrator in the Metamorphoses offers a valuable note of caution in response to the tragic episode between the talented mortal Arachne and the goddess Minerva: “do not compete with gods, and do not boast” (183). The gods acknowledge their lofty position…

Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Aesop’s Fables These last two weeks consisted of two significant aspects of Literature and also my favorite so far. Firstly, we were assigned one or two fables to analyze and relate to, I was lucky to be assigned two fables. I had to present the following fables: the ant and the cricket, and the boy who cried “wolf”. These fables were very amusing and short, I never heard of the ant and the cricket, but once I read it I understood and related to the fable. The ant and…

“’May your soul be damned and go to hell!’ Tenorio cursed. His body heaved as he gasped and grunted for breath” (Anaya 169). This is said when Tenorio, a man that many people believes is the father of 3 witches and may be an evil sorcerer as well, carries out the brutal murder of Narciso, the town drunk, underneath the Juniper tree. In the book Bless Me, Ultima, Tenorio is a symbol of hate because he murders two people and tries to kill Antonio, the main protagonist, but his gun misfires. He…

Mekhla Singh Singh 1 Ene/ Euro Lit Per 3 14 October 2015 The Inferno Socratic Seminar Questions 1. How did the poem, The Inferno, influence you? The poem, The Inferno, did not influence my views or morals on life. However I think that Dante’s writing skills from the poem were influential. For example, his creativity on the punishments for each sinner and his use of vivid imagery. “Without exchanging words we reached a place where a narrow stream came…

was sent to the lust ring, “Love led us straight to sudden death together. Caïna awaits the one who quenched our lives” (Canto 5, 106-107). Virgil asked Dante what he was thinking about. Francesca’s manipulation of her words affected Dante and made him sympathetic opposed to annoyed towards her remarks like he later in circle of gluttony. When Dante answers Virgil he is clearly sorrowful and doesn’t understand why Francesca is in Hell, “Alas, all those sweet thoughts, and oh, how much desiring…

Background or History: The werewolf dates back as far as 8 A.D in a poem titled “Metamorphoses”, written by Ovid, a Roman poet. The poem is a very long collection of mythological stories told in a chronological order from the beginning of time until the end of Julius Caesar’s death. This poem is believed to be the oldest written record of metamorphosis in history. Oxford Dictionaries defines metamorphosis as “a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one,…