Dante's Inferno Analysis
Jose E EspadaOrtiz
Hist 101 A/ Mr. David Purvis
17 April 2013
Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno, originally written in Italian, is a narrative poem that opens on the evening of Good Friday in 1300. The poem takes you on a journey that documents Dante’s trip through the underworld, also known as hell to Heaven. During the poem Dante is guided by Virgil, who is the ghost of the great Roman poet, through the gates of hell then up to Heaven where he will be united with his love Beatrice.
The poem begins with Dante traveling through the dark wood when he suddenly lost his way, and begins to become filled with fear while roaming through the dark forest. However there is a ray of hope as the sun shines down from above illuminating a mountain. …show more content…
This circle seemed to have composed of many souls that where in “limbo” and that of souls of great writers, even of his guide, Virgil. The Second Circle seemed to have represented the sin of Lust, where Dante watched the souls swirl around like a twister after the monster Minos condemns their souls to punishment. In the Second Circle, Dante also met Francesca, who tells of her doomed love affair with Paolo da Rimini from whom she committed adultery with as it was her husband’s brother.
Moving on through hell to the Third Circle, where the sin glutton was symbolized, Dante illustrated where Gluttonous lies in a puddle of mud and endures a rain full of filth. The Fourth Circle, Dante meets Avaricious and Prodigal, and they are charging at one another carrying giant boulders. Journeying through the Fifth Circle lays the sin of wrathfulness. The Fifth Circle contained the swampy river, a cesspool, in which the souls spend their afterlife struggling with one another, and Sullen lies bound beneath the Styx’s waters chocking on …show more content…
However, an angelic messenger sent down from Heaven forced the demons to open the gates before Dante. Once the gates were opened, Dante entered into the Sixth Circle of Hell where the Heretics resided. The next circle, Seventh Circle, contained different rings that led through a deep valley. The Seventh Circle was one that resided violence. It divided murders and tyrants, to blasphemers, sodomites, and Usurers. The First Ring was though of a violent nature souls of murders, or others, who committed violence on others, were destined to a boiling river of blood. In the Second Ring Dante found those who committed violence on themselves, such as suicides. The souls in the Second Ring were endured to a life in the form of trees. Going deeper into the Seventh Circle where the rings that contained the souls of Blasphemers, those violent to God; Sodomites, those violent toward Nature; and the Usurers, those violent toward Art. In the Ring of the Blasphemers lied a statue of an aged old man that seemed to facing west towards Rome as if to see if the city would become full of life once
Hist 101 A/ Mr. David Purvis
17 April 2013
Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno, originally written in Italian, is a narrative poem that opens on the evening of Good Friday in 1300. The poem takes you on a journey that documents Dante’s trip through the underworld, also known as hell to Heaven. During the poem Dante is guided by Virgil, who is the ghost of the great Roman poet, through the gates of hell then up to Heaven where he will be united with his love Beatrice.
The poem begins with Dante traveling through the dark wood when he suddenly lost his way, and begins to become filled with fear while roaming through the dark forest. However there is a ray of hope as the sun shines down from above illuminating a mountain. …show more content…
This circle seemed to have composed of many souls that where in “limbo” and that of souls of great writers, even of his guide, Virgil. The Second Circle seemed to have represented the sin of Lust, where Dante watched the souls swirl around like a twister after the monster Minos condemns their souls to punishment. In the Second Circle, Dante also met Francesca, who tells of her doomed love affair with Paolo da Rimini from whom she committed adultery with as it was her husband’s brother.
Moving on through hell to the Third Circle, where the sin glutton was symbolized, Dante illustrated where Gluttonous lies in a puddle of mud and endures a rain full of filth. The Fourth Circle, Dante meets Avaricious and Prodigal, and they are charging at one another carrying giant boulders. Journeying through the Fifth Circle lays the sin of wrathfulness. The Fifth Circle contained the swampy river, a cesspool, in which the souls spend their afterlife struggling with one another, and Sullen lies bound beneath the Styx’s waters chocking on …show more content…
However, an angelic messenger sent down from Heaven forced the demons to open the gates before Dante. Once the gates were opened, Dante entered into the Sixth Circle of Hell where the Heretics resided. The next circle, Seventh Circle, contained different rings that led through a deep valley. The Seventh Circle was one that resided violence. It divided murders and tyrants, to blasphemers, sodomites, and Usurers. The First Ring was though of a violent nature souls of murders, or others, who committed violence on others, were destined to a boiling river of blood. In the Second Ring Dante found those who committed violence on themselves, such as suicides. The souls in the Second Ring were endured to a life in the form of trees. Going deeper into the Seventh Circle where the rings that contained the souls of Blasphemers, those violent to God; Sodomites, those violent toward Nature; and the Usurers, those violent toward Art. In the Ring of the Blasphemers lied a statue of an aged old man that seemed to facing west towards Rome as if to see if the city would become full of life once