Virgil Tibbs

Eventually, the pity Dante held for the people sentenced to the inferno started to deteriorate as Virgil took Dante further into hell. Even when people started to talk to him, he felt as if they deserved everything they were receiving in Hell. At one point in canto VII Dante even pushes a person back into the pit they came from. It is easily seen that…

encounters is Virgil. Virgil is fit to lead Dante through hell because of how much Dante respect Virgil and his works. He shows admiration when Dante states “Are you then Virgil/ are you then that fount from which pours forth so rich a stream of words” (1. 79-80). The word choice he used to described Virgil seems to glorify him. Dante regards to Virgil as his master and is constantly showing that he is loyal to him and trust in him to get him safely through. His admiration and trust in…

The speeches of Hera from Homeric Hymn to Apollo Within the passage, Hera expresses her anger toward her husband Zeus who dishonours her by producing Athena alone. The speech is a consolidation of Hera’s jealousy toward the superiority of Athena and the hatred toward her own failure in childbearing. In contrast with the glorious Athena, Hephaestus who Hera produces alone was “feeble from birth among all the gods, lame and withered of foot,” (H.H. 3g). The shame and the disappointment amplify…

Her furor is then in the form of the storm, as said by Virgil in the line. The storm embodies Juno 's wrath and only because of Neptune is it stopped before all of Aeneas 's ships are taken. One would assume that a goddess as great and as powerful as she would not succumb to temptations this trivial, but Juno…

Divine Comedy played an effective role in initiating the protestant reformation and revealing to the common person the importance of living a righteous life. In the Divine Comedy's Inferno, Dante and Virgil Journey through the nine fictional levels of Hell. Dante represents the human soul, and Virgil represents human reason. Throughout the journey they discover the punishments the sinners of Hell face eternally, based on their crimes. Each crime has its own symbolic punishment on a different…

“The Final Hours of Troy” Virgil is a first century B.C.E. Roman epic poem writer. Virgil wrote the greatest epic poem and the most influential work of all classical literature, The Aeneid. The Aeneid makes up twelve books in total and it incorporates various legends of Aeneas who later becomes the founder of the Roman Empire. The story of “The Final Hours of Troy” is Book II of The Aeneid and it’s told by the Trojan Prince, Aeneas, to a Queen named Didio and her court. This long and tragic…

The Aeneid is bursting with violent acts from the beginning to the end. The main character, Aeneas, faces conflict from both humans and gods. Aeneas is a Trojan hero and prince who embodies pietas, or driven by duty, honor, and devotion, which makes him an example of an ideal Roman citizen. Aeneas was determined to be a successful founder of Rome, but he faced complications along the journey. In each conflict, Aeneas dealt with fighting and violence; therefore, Rome was founded on violent…

Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led by the Roman poet Virgil, encounters those who were unworthy of being Christians: “the unbaptized, the pagans, the lustful and the avaricious, heretics, tyrants, blasphemers, usurers, flatterers, hypocrites, deceivers, traitors, and finally [in the…

told by the legendary poet, Virgil, that Beatrice was waiting for him in the afterlife. His journey lasts from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300, which was before his actual exile. Throughout his journey Dante meets Sinners in every level of Hell and Dante stops to speak with many of them which describe what their sin was. Dante creates a very disgusting landscape as he describes what happens on every level of hell. He and Virgil then move into…

The wrathful sinners are forced to fight on the surface of the river named Styx. The sullen sinners are gurgling under the surface of the river. The boat and oars symbolize how Dante, Virgil, and Phlegyas arrived to this circle. I painted the bottom of the circle blue to symbolize the river named Styx. I painted red streaks over top of the blue pait to show the blood in the water from the sullen and wrathful sinners. Heretic sinners…