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Dante’s Inferno is a story about how two men and their travels through hell, the different levels of hell, who was in them, and what they did during their time on Earth. There were nine circles and some of them had different levels inside the circles for example the seventh circle of hell is divided between three smaller circles. Then they eventually emerge back out onto the earth but on the opposite side of the earth from where they had started.…
8. Discuss three ways that Dante’s “Inferno” unites the pagan classical world and the medieval Christian world.…
Dante the Pilgrim visits many different people while on his journey through Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Each one of these tormented souls are punished for their crimes against themselves, society, and God. Most of these personalities bring no surprise as they are robbers, murderers, and blasphemers. However, the amount of Church authority figures in Hell is staggeringly high. The ironic revelation is never fully dissected by Dante but the implications of this writing may cause the public to turn a leery eye towards the Church. Throughout Dante’s Inferno, the sights of “Holy” men rotting in Hell create a rift between the teachings of the church and the common citizens.…
2) Main Points: Dante's Inferno enables man to understand that the punishment of the soul is retributive justice assigned by God.…
Dante’s Inferno depicts all the different types of major sins you can commit in your lifetime and the punishments you will endure thereafter. Dante had a system for these punishments that worked on the idea of divine justice. Basically, whatever temptations you succumbed to, you will be punished in a deserving manner based on how bad the sin was. Dante’s 9 circles were in order from bad to worse, 9 being the worst.…
The story of Dante’s Divine Comedy is one that is now read throughout the world and is highly regarded as one of the great literary works of all time. The most famous of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, is the story of Dante’s journey through Hell. With the great poet, Virgil, as his guide, they make their way through the nine circle of Hell in which Dante describes. While, very much a religious work, it is also just as political in substance because of the ways in which Dante draws on his life experiences to influence and shape his version of Hell. His descriptions of Hell are still wildly popular and oftentimes form the basis of how modern day societies view Hell. An example of this lasting popularity is the 2010 video game in which the…
“The Inferno” is an epic poem following the journey of Dante a mortal man who was guided through the many circles of Hell. Through his experiences he learns that divine retribution is pure justice of God; for all the punishment the tormented souls endure in Hell corresponds to whatever sins they have committed in life. Every circle in hell has an assigned punishment for the corresponding sinners within them. At the beginning of Dante’s journey he was horrified and felt pity and compassion toward the tortured souls he encountered. Through his journey Dante’s attitude changes from pity and compassion to ridiculing and wishing more punishment of divine retribution upon the sinners within the circles of hell. Through my essay I will discuss cantos V, VIII, and XXXII.…
1. Insert your introductory paragraph with your central claim. Include any revisions your instructor asked you to make.…
Dante and Virgil reach the final circle of Hell where traitors who betray their masters are tormented. Lucifer sits half frozen in the ice with three heads and three sets of bat-like wings that beat and keep the lake frozen below. In each of his mouths sits Judas, Brutus, and Cassius, who are considered by Dante to be the worst traitors. The deceased are frozen in the ice to varying degrees depending on how great their sin was. Virgil carries Dante as they descend down the devil’s torso and onto the ice. They then leave through an opening in the rock and begin their ascent out of Hell. The two of them follow the treacherous path through the center of the Earth and past a river before coming out the tunnel on the other side of the Earth and…
There is much debate as to who plays the part of the tragic hero in Julius Caesar, but through analysis and literal evidence, it can be proved that Marcus Brutus plays the tragic hero. The definition of a tragic hero, as by Dictionary.com, is “a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy.” As given by examples in the play, Marcus Brutus possesses all of these traits.…
Many believe that the title of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is inappropriate since Julius Caesar was not the tragic hero of the play. Several feel that the true tragic hero of the play was Caesar's right hand man, Marcus Brutus. For centuries this debate on whether who should possess the title of the tragedy is still unknown. However, I think that the play should be entitled The Tragedy of Marcus Brutus, because Brutus contains more qualities of a tragic hero than Caesar does. A tragic hero is stated to be the main character of the tragedy that always has at least one flaw that can easily be distinguish which leads to their death. In Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is indeed the tragic hero because he had various flaws. However three particular flaws that he had were his overconfidence, impatience ness along with naiveté are what led him to his downfall.…
Brutus only has two choices in act II of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, to kill caesar or to let the roman republic fall under caesar. Brutus decides to kill Caesar under the manipulation of Cassius. But to be able to make that decision he had to be under a certain mindset which involved many different things. In the beginning of act II Brutus decides that he must kill Julius Caesar but, with that he must have been under a certain mindset which was contributed to by many things.…
What type of person does it take to be considered a hero? According to Merriam - Webster's online dictionary, a hero is a person “of extreme admiration and devotion." As a hero they have many admirable traits. Most of the traits you see in Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, in the character Brutus through his work in the Conspiracy; where he wisely made tough decisions that would affect all of Rome. You see the traits of kindness, leverage, and determination through his actions. These actions are what makes him a hero.…
In the play, The tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus, a real person in ancient Rome, was a honorable man and respected by the people of Rome until he killed his best friend, Caesar, thinking it was for the good of Rome. Brutus is the perfect example of a Shakespearean tragic hero.…