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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,…

The subject matter of Primavera (1477) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and the Realm of Flora (1631) by Nicholas Poussin (1593/94-1665) both contain elements from Ovid's Metamorphoses (1053) and Greek and Roman mythology. As Kloss discusses Poussin’s work he remarks: “Moreover, he has, like Botticelli, taken a page or several pages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. You recall that m the nymph Cloris was literally metamorphosing into Flora in Botticelli’s the personification of spring. In this…

After the events of the marvel and Capcom heroes stopping the threat of Galactus, Dante traveled far across the expanded world to find a worthy opponent to help increase his skills, that quest soon lead him finding himself face to face with the Ghost rider in a dark forest. Dante: Well aren't you a sight to see! Ghost rider: And who the hell are you?? Dante: Names Dante and I've been looking for a good fight in this boring little world you got here, I don't get too many calls for any demon…

From Hell is a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell; it is about the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. The novel depicts details about the Whitechapel killings in the Victorian era of London as well as speculating who Jack the Ripper actually was and the underlying motives. The art style that From Hell is depicted in is a combination of the naturalistic and cartoon modes. The naturalistic mode is just how it sounds, the art style in the comic book, or graphic novel, is similar…

1. Virgil is Dante’s guide, because to Dante, Virgil was the person that brought Dante honor in his writing style also he was a “famous sage” who represented reason. Dante respected Virgil and the wisdom that he gives which is why he was Dante’s guide. The nature of Virgil and Dante’s relationship was student and teacher. When they are speaking Dante even refers to Virgil as being: “You are my teacher”. 2. Dante was exiled because he was a part of the “White Guelphs” who opposed the “Black…

The Aeneid, just as other ancient texts have gods in it that change and alter the way the plot of the events unfold and what happens. The Aeneid has both many similarities and difference in the gods between the Iliad. In the Iliad there is a set command of gods, with one being at the top, Zeus. While in comparison, in The Aeneid, there is a leader of the gods, the only difference is, that this leader is not a man but a woman, and her name is, Juno. The gods in The Aeneid, are more commonly…

The two are still in the terrace of wrathfulness, but are walking toward the terrace of slothfulness. After Dante’s visions, Virgil lectures him on love. He first says that the creator and the creature have never been without love. He continues on saying there are two types of love. Natural love cannot be wrong, but mental or elective love can lead to wrongness because one may…

Virgil awakens readers to the world of the gods through his guide The Aeneid Book I. The book captures the anger of the gods and the nature of rivalry existence in the epic world. Juno’s anger towards Aeneas is evident in the novel. Juno is bitter because Carthage is her favorite city and it will be rendered to destruction in the near future. “But she heard a race of men, sprung of Trojan blood, would one day topple down her Tyrian stronghold…” (24) With the love of her city, to make things…