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    Edmond Dantes Essay

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    Finding His Father At sea on a long voyage of about three years‚ Edmond Dantes is finally able to come back home to France. Dantes returns back to France hoping to see his father and fiancée but doesn’t see what he had hoped too. Once Dantes arrived to France he was immediately jumped on by his fiancée Mercedes. The two were so excited to see each other. After a few minutes of being with Mercedes‚ Dantes asked‚ “Where is my father?” Mercedes was slow to begin‚ not knowing what to say. Edmond once

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    encounter between Dante‚ the main character‚ and Filippo Argenti‚ a member of the condemned‚ deals with Dante’s response to Argenti’s place in hell‚ his disdain for Argenti‚ and his symbolic rejection of sin by his actions. Dante has no sympathy towards Argenti even though Argenti is condemned to stay in the slimy River of Styx until the Judgment. Dante holds great animosity towards Argenti carried on from conflicts they have had in life to the putrid circles of hell. The hostility Dante demonstrates

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    A Few Words on Dante’s Inferno Like in the Inferno‚ where the gates of Hell begin the journey to the bottom‚ so life is began by birth‚ and the journey to Eternity begins. Some lives are more easily lead than others‚ like some of the punishments in Dante’s version of Hell are worse than others. Although in Hell‚ there is no hope‚ not even the hope of hope‚ the journey that Dante and Virgil take can be compared with the journey of life. Just the fact that Dante has someone to guide him can be

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    The Contrapasso in Circle Eight The Inferno is the first of three books about a pilgrim named Dante journeying his way through Hell on an ultimate quest to get to Heaven. This story is all an allusion of Dante‚ the author‚ and his journey through life and the trials he has to go through. While in Hell‚ Dante encounters many sinners who have specific punishments tailored to fit their crime. Dante calls the idea of a punishment fitting its crime the “contrapasso”. I believe that the contrapasso is

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    place created by Dante Alighieri; The Inferno is exactly the type of Hell where no person would want to be. Even those who acted upon the lightest of sins suffered greatly. While each realm contained a different sinner‚ the punishment that each were forced to face was cruel‚ repulsive‚ and sometimes rather disgusting. Through grieving tears without an exit‚ unbearably itchy scabs‚ and a putrid‚ slushy ground‚ Dante uses vivid imagery to describe the various realms of Hell. As Dante passes through

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    Figuring out who you are is hard‚ but for Edmond Dantes‚ it’s even worse. So many things have happened to him‚ shaping his character from person to person. Being in prison for so long took all the optimism and hope he had when he first came off the ship. Being someone else after he escaped so people wouldn’t know who he was changed him. He started acting like the person he was pretending to be and less like himself and how he was before prison. His life became revolved around the aspect of revenge

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    Sins In Dante's Inferno

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    In the eyes of Dante Alighieri‚ there were many types of sins‚ and some were stronger than others. He believed that each sin had to be punished according to its level of strength of the offense towards God. In his poem‚ the InfernoDante includes three major levels of sin. One of these major sins is violence. Somebody once said that‚ “Life is difficult and then you die.” In the 7th circle located in the second inner circle one of the violent sins are those violent against themselves‚ which‚ as

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    Dante's Inferno Analysis

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    1. In the epic poetry‚ The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1320)‚ Dante Alighieri claims that a person’s inability to restrain their emotions with reason leads to the person becoming a sinner in one way or another. Alighieri supports this thesis by introducing the different types of sinners that there are as well as telling their backstory as to how they became sinners and ultimately ended up in hell. The author purposely emphasizes the back stories of the different types of sinners

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    The Insanity of Edmond Dantes In the story The Count of Monty Christo by Alexander Dumar‚ Edmond Dantes is to become the captain of the ship Pharaon. He is framed for collaborating with a traitor. Edmond is sent to prison without a proper trial. The prison‚ Château d’If‚ is a terrible place. Dantes finds the captivity more than he can bear and becomes suicidal (59) Edmond is actually insane and hallucinates most of the story. Edmond is actually in his cell for the majority of the book‚ and predicts

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    Because Dante’s Inferno centers on one man’s journey through Hell‚ the author’s imagery invites readers to tag along to experience the horrific guided tour. Immediately‚ the author informs implicitly positions Dante as a proxy for mankind when he says‚ “Midway along the journey of our life …I wandered off from the straight path” (67) and later says‚ “How I entered there I cannot truly say‚ I had become so sleepy…when I first strayed‚ leaving the path of truth…”(67). Within these lines‚ Christian

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