Dante's Inferno Outline
Dante’s inferno Animated Epic Outline I. The Arrival a. Dante returns from the Third Crusade which has had him away from his home for several years. b. In monologue, he has a grim feeling because of the woods. He senses someone following him c. Upon reaching home, he finds his father dead, and his beloved Beatrice dying of a stab wound. d. She is relieved of his return and her spirit began to ascend to heaven but Lucifer snatched and dragged her into the gates of hell. e. Dante runs after them and is briefly stalled by Virgil who offers to become his guide. Dante uses his will and his faith to pry the gates open. II. Entry into Hell a. Dante and Virgil board Charon, a demonic ferry that takes souls across into
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the First Circle of Hell. Charon doesn’t like to ferry mortals, he bids his demons to attack Dante. b. Dante kills of the demons and loses his sword in the process. He picks a demon’s scythe and slays Charon, crashing them onto the coast of the first circle. III. Limbo - home to mostly virtuous pagans and unbaptized babies. a. Dante learns that Beatrice was pregnant with his child while he was at the crusade but she had a miscarriage. b. Dante and Virgil were attacked by demonic children but they escaped into a large building where they come across a hall of great rulers, philosophers and thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. They encounter Saladin whom Dante battled as a crusader. c. They encounter King Minos, who judges the condemned to their circle of hell. He denies Dante access and they battle. Dante is able to kill Minos by dropping him onto his own spinning wheel of judgment. d. Meanwhile, Lucifer tortures Beatrice in a cycle of killing her, tricking her endlessly with the hope of rescue and taunting her that Dante had never kept his promises after he left IV. Lust - storm-ravaged shores a. Dante notices bodies flying through the wind, intertwined and Virgil explains the island is the second circle of Lust and those in the wind are caught in a never-ending storm of passion and may never know rest. b. Following the trail sounds of Beatrice’s cries, Dante ends up in a room of succubi who morph into demons who try to kill him. He realized that he himself sinned with a woman during the crusades who offered herself to spare the life of his husband. He was under the impression that he was absolved of it, as a crusader. c. Beatrice begins to lose her faith yet refuses to see it as the truth as Lucifer offers her his hand in marriage. V. Gluttony - a grotto of men and women who had lived their lives without knowing fulfillment, so they suffer lacking it in death a. Virgil tells Dante the only way to the next circle is from within Cerberus, who devours the ever-starving souls. Dante allows himself to be eaten. b. Dante encounters Ciacco, a man he knew in life and in death he pitied. He absolves him of his sins and releases him from the pit. Lucifer is angered by this and reveals to him his marriage plans and that his father is also in hell. c. In order to escape Cerberus, Dante destroys its heart that caused it to spit him out in a river of blood. VI. Greed - ring of hell to men and women who wasted their lives in pursuit of material possessions. a. The condemned souls are tortured by being sheared in money presses, boiled in melted gold and buried in heavy gold coins. b. Dante finds his father who was promised freedom and endless gold if he slays his own son. They battle and Dante wins as he kicked his father into a vat of boiling gold. VII. Anger and the City of Dis a. Dante goes forth to the River Styx where the damned are still at war in the shallow waters. They climb aboard Phlegyas, a giant who crosses the river. b.
Dante then commands it to charge into the city where he sees Lucifer announcing his plans of marriage to the souls in the city. Dante strikes Phlegyas down, and chases after Lucifer. c. A flash back reveals Dante’s experience as a crusader where Kind Richard gives silly orders that strained his patience and makes him doubt the value of his prisoners lives. VIII. Heresy - for the heretics, people who have gone against the teaching of their churches a. Dante comes across Farinata, another man Dante hated in life, who taunts Dante by revealing Lucifer's plan to wed Beatrice and trap her in hell forever b. Dante kills Farinata in rage just before the circle collapses from the force of Christ’s death which Virgil says, quakes the circle eternally. IX. Violence - Souls boil in a vast river of blood from their own victims; violence they had inflicted upon others a. Virgil helps Dante face the minotaur, guardian of the Circle, causing an easy defeat by using the beast’s own anger against him. They cross the river with the help of the centaur, Nessus. b. Dante find his mother in the Forest of Suicides, where she is tortured for hanging herself, unable to stand his father’s violence. He was told she had died of a fever. In sorrow, Dante uses his cross to free
her. c. They move onto a graveyard in the Abominable Sands, where he finds his close friend Franceso rise as an undead warrior, condemned for violence in God’s name. d. Francesco attacks him in anger and revenge, matching Dante's scythe with his superior sword skills. Dante finally defeats Francesco by slicing his face in half. e. Dante’s conscience eats him as he remembers the lives he had slain along with prisoners he had to murder because they had nothing left to feed them yet had spared Christian lives. He denies it and blames it on war, but only fools himself. X. Fraud a. They reach the circle aboard the geryon and Virgil tells Dante he only needs to cross the bridge to stop the marriage and parts ways with him. b. Upon crossing Dante reflects on his own fraudulent acts that drains his bodily strength and morale. He realises that his father, his servants and Beatrice were all killed by the husband of the woman he slept with, and inevitably blames himself c. This caused Dante to slow down right at the crucial point where Beatrice succumbs to Lucifer in her despair. This strips Beatrice of her wings and right to a place in heaven, turning her into a full demon. d. Beatrice attacks Dante, completely overpowering him. She forces him to peer into the circle of Treachery, made to reflect upon letting Beatrice’s brother, Francesco take the fall for his killings and repercussion of his previous sin of lust. e. In grief, Dante presents her with the cross he promised he’d return with and pleads for forgiveness and to return into God’s love. Beatrice forgives him and she returns into her angelic appearance and kisses Dante. f. An angel comes to take Beatrice. She promises they’d meet again soon, but he must leave hell and enter the purgatory alone and face Lucifer as she ascends. XI. Treachery - the cold underground of traitors a. A woman leads Dante into center of the caverns, he’s doubting her, being in a circle of traitors. He wanders aimlessly and finds enormous chain and destroys them. b. A three faced demon appears, he is Lucifer in his physical form, freed from his chains. He attacks Dante but Dante slays this beast. c. Dante is about to step into the Purgatory, but Lucifer is freed from his frozen form, reveals his true form and overpowers Dante. Lucifer threatens to enter purgatory and seize Heaven. d. Dante knows he cannot defeat him alone. With all his faith he begs sacrifice his soul to keep Lucifer from entering the purgatory. He repents and pleads for to defeat him. e. Lucifer hears Dante’s cries of repentance and he is brought back into the darkness. He struggles to run back to keep Dante from his pact but a force of light stops him freezes him solid. f. Dante is now free. He dives into a well that would lead him to chase after Beatrice. He then rips off the mark of his sins that he had sewn onto his chest and it turns into a snake. It must be Lucifer, waiting to get his revenge.
the First Circle of Hell. Charon doesn’t like to ferry mortals, he bids his demons to attack Dante. b. Dante kills of the demons and loses his sword in the process. He picks a demon’s scythe and slays Charon, crashing them onto the coast of the first circle. III. Limbo - home to mostly virtuous pagans and unbaptized babies. a. Dante learns that Beatrice was pregnant with his child while he was at the crusade but she had a miscarriage. b. Dante and Virgil were attacked by demonic children but they escaped into a large building where they come across a hall of great rulers, philosophers and thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. They encounter Saladin whom Dante battled as a crusader. c. They encounter King Minos, who judges the condemned to their circle of hell. He denies Dante access and they battle. Dante is able to kill Minos by dropping him onto his own spinning wheel of judgment. d. Meanwhile, Lucifer tortures Beatrice in a cycle of killing her, tricking her endlessly with the hope of rescue and taunting her that Dante had never kept his promises after he left IV. Lust - storm-ravaged shores a. Dante notices bodies flying through the wind, intertwined and Virgil explains the island is the second circle of Lust and those in the wind are caught in a never-ending storm of passion and may never know rest. b. Following the trail sounds of Beatrice’s cries, Dante ends up in a room of succubi who morph into demons who try to kill him. He realized that he himself sinned with a woman during the crusades who offered herself to spare the life of his husband. He was under the impression that he was absolved of it, as a crusader. c. Beatrice begins to lose her faith yet refuses to see it as the truth as Lucifer offers her his hand in marriage. V. Gluttony - a grotto of men and women who had lived their lives without knowing fulfillment, so they suffer lacking it in death a. Virgil tells Dante the only way to the next circle is from within Cerberus, who devours the ever-starving souls. Dante allows himself to be eaten. b. Dante encounters Ciacco, a man he knew in life and in death he pitied. He absolves him of his sins and releases him from the pit. Lucifer is angered by this and reveals to him his marriage plans and that his father is also in hell. c. In order to escape Cerberus, Dante destroys its heart that caused it to spit him out in a river of blood. VI. Greed - ring of hell to men and women who wasted their lives in pursuit of material possessions. a. The condemned souls are tortured by being sheared in money presses, boiled in melted gold and buried in heavy gold coins. b. Dante finds his father who was promised freedom and endless gold if he slays his own son. They battle and Dante wins as he kicked his father into a vat of boiling gold. VII. Anger and the City of Dis a. Dante goes forth to the River Styx where the damned are still at war in the shallow waters. They climb aboard Phlegyas, a giant who crosses the river. b.
Dante then commands it to charge into the city where he sees Lucifer announcing his plans of marriage to the souls in the city. Dante strikes Phlegyas down, and chases after Lucifer. c. A flash back reveals Dante’s experience as a crusader where Kind Richard gives silly orders that strained his patience and makes him doubt the value of his prisoners lives. VIII. Heresy - for the heretics, people who have gone against the teaching of their churches a. Dante comes across Farinata, another man Dante hated in life, who taunts Dante by revealing Lucifer's plan to wed Beatrice and trap her in hell forever b. Dante kills Farinata in rage just before the circle collapses from the force of Christ’s death which Virgil says, quakes the circle eternally. IX. Violence - Souls boil in a vast river of blood from their own victims; violence they had inflicted upon others a. Virgil helps Dante face the minotaur, guardian of the Circle, causing an easy defeat by using the beast’s own anger against him. They cross the river with the help of the centaur, Nessus. b. Dante find his mother in the Forest of Suicides, where she is tortured for hanging herself, unable to stand his father’s violence. He was told she had died of a fever. In sorrow, Dante uses his cross to free
her. c. They move onto a graveyard in the Abominable Sands, where he finds his close friend Franceso rise as an undead warrior, condemned for violence in God’s name. d. Francesco attacks him in anger and revenge, matching Dante's scythe with his superior sword skills. Dante finally defeats Francesco by slicing his face in half. e. Dante’s conscience eats him as he remembers the lives he had slain along with prisoners he had to murder because they had nothing left to feed them yet had spared Christian lives. He denies it and blames it on war, but only fools himself. X. Fraud a. They reach the circle aboard the geryon and Virgil tells Dante he only needs to cross the bridge to stop the marriage and parts ways with him. b. Upon crossing Dante reflects on his own fraudulent acts that drains his bodily strength and morale. He realises that his father, his servants and Beatrice were all killed by the husband of the woman he slept with, and inevitably blames himself c. This caused Dante to slow down right at the crucial point where Beatrice succumbs to Lucifer in her despair. This strips Beatrice of her wings and right to a place in heaven, turning her into a full demon. d. Beatrice attacks Dante, completely overpowering him. She forces him to peer into the circle of Treachery, made to reflect upon letting Beatrice’s brother, Francesco take the fall for his killings and repercussion of his previous sin of lust. e. In grief, Dante presents her with the cross he promised he’d return with and pleads for forgiveness and to return into God’s love. Beatrice forgives him and she returns into her angelic appearance and kisses Dante. f. An angel comes to take Beatrice. She promises they’d meet again soon, but he must leave hell and enter the purgatory alone and face Lucifer as she ascends. XI. Treachery - the cold underground of traitors a. A woman leads Dante into center of the caverns, he’s doubting her, being in a circle of traitors. He wanders aimlessly and finds enormous chain and destroys them. b. A three faced demon appears, he is Lucifer in his physical form, freed from his chains. He attacks Dante but Dante slays this beast. c. Dante is about to step into the Purgatory, but Lucifer is freed from his frozen form, reveals his true form and overpowers Dante. Lucifer threatens to enter purgatory and seize Heaven. d. Dante knows he cannot defeat him alone. With all his faith he begs sacrifice his soul to keep Lucifer from entering the purgatory. He repents and pleads for to defeat him. e. Lucifer hears Dante’s cries of repentance and he is brought back into the darkness. He struggles to run back to keep Dante from his pact but a force of light stops him freezes him solid. f. Dante is now free. He dives into a well that would lead him to chase after Beatrice. He then rips off the mark of his sins that he had sewn onto his chest and it turns into a snake. It must be Lucifer, waiting to get his revenge.