Virgil Tibbs

go far beyond just their stories. These two novels exemplify the cultures that helped to shape them and show great contrast between the mindset of the Achaean Homer and the Roman Virgil. These differences represent an evolution of the mindset…

Does not matter who you are or where you from, if you have a good taste of literature and knowledge about general culture, you know the poem that Dante Alighieri write in 1307 become a masterpiece and now, 709 years after, musicians, poets, writers, artist and even in modern things like video games, still making references to it. How can they talk about something so complex like Dante’s poem in culture today? People have a great variety of options to refer to Dante and his poem. Society creates…

single excerpt of the text that best exemplifies and proves the derived possibility. In this text, Virgil tells the story of how the Trojans became Romans not only by the will of the gods, but the will of their people as well. The passage I am interpreting that best exemplifies the transition from Trojan to Roman is the killing of Turnus (Aeneid, 12.965-1265). By analyzing the impact that Virgil has, I will be able to prove that…

Aristotle Mendoza is ready for another boring summer stuck at home with his Mother and emotionally distant Father. To escape the boredom of summer he goes to the local pool even though he doesn’t know how to swim. A boy called Dante teaches Aristotle how to swim. Their friendship cemented when they realize they were both named after ancient philosophers. Both of these boys are american-mexican and while Dante’s teaching Ari how to swim, Ari is teaching Dante how to except himself. Aristotle and…

The Divine Comedy is a series of 3 books--Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso--made up of 33 cantos each, that describes life after death in an allegorical manner. The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri, an Italian author from the 1300s. The protagonist of the Divine Comedy is Dante, an allegoric representation of the author himself used to portray the author’s views on Christianity and sin. Dante further uses his character to demonstrate humanity's flaws through his nine layers of the…

Throughout time, literary works have always focused on a theme or lesson to be learned. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a literary work describing Hell and the sinners that have made it there. In The Inferno, Dante shows that His justice is deserved through the biblical allusion snakes and what they represent. Hell is depicted in The Inferno by nine levels and some levels have sublevels. Every level has a different sin. Snakes are in Hell to torture and give sinners their punishment and are…

In The Aeneid, Dido, the queen of Carthage, appears to be suffering the pain of love, yet strong-willed at the beginning of Book IV. Despite the fact that she is grieving the death of her husband, Sychaeus, Dido remains focused on her responsibilities of leading her people. Dido is very steadfast when it comes to her debating whether or not to succumb to her growing feelings for Aeneas. She wishes to never marry again after the death of her husband and prays that, “he [Sychaeus] hold it [her…

Aeneid book II In book II Aeneas fulfills his pietas, his overall duty towards Anchises, the gods and his wife Creusa, by saving them. Saving them was his main priority; he wanted them safe and away from being taking from the Greeks and turned into possible slaves. Aeneas also seemed to have further duties to his wife and father. His first duty to his father, Anchises, was to forgive him for having an affair with Venus. This affair caused the gods to despise him and making Jupiter cast…

Aeneas, the man in question, has had to flee his home; the city of Troy. Troy has been destroyed by the war between the Greeks and Achilles. Aeneas along with the rest of the Trojans head out in search of a new home in Italy. The only issue is Juno. Juno is queen of the gods. She is furious with Aeneas because of Carthage, her favorite city. A prophecy is said that descendants of Troy will destroy Carthage someday. She also holds a grudge against the city of Troy because of a beauty competition.…

In Canto 3 of The Divine Comedy: Inferno, the pilgrim, and Virgil arrive at the gate of hell. They enter and as Virgil explains, the souls who had no goal in life, no direction, no intellect to choose God, reside here. They are the neutrals. They move along until they reach the river of Acheron where Charon, after a bit of hesitation, takes them across to the other side. On this side, there is an earthquake which causes Dante, the pilgrim, to faint. In this canto, Dante takes us through the…