Matt Eden Mrs. Brown W-3 1/26/11 Inferno Literary Analysis If given the opportunity to view Hell and its inhabitants‚ would you feel sympathy towards those you have known while they were alive‚ or would you feel as though they deserve the punishment they have been given? One such man who wrote a book about such an encounter is Dante Alighieri. Dante opened up The Inferno with a tone of sympathy and grief; however‚ his attitude toward the souls he encountered became increasingly opposite to
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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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The Inferno‚ By Dante Alighieri is part of The Divine Comedy‚ which consists of the Inferno‚ Purgatorio‚ and Paradiso. The Inferno‚ written in 1314‚ is about Dante’s allegorical journey through Hell where he speaks to many of the sinners and tells their stories. The inferno presents the theme that God finds a just way to punish all those who sin. The author‚ Dante Alighieri‚ is also the speaker in the poem‚ and Dante’s audience is mainly the Italian people‚ as they are familiar with many of the characters
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Hell. The four lettered word that trembles in the throats of men and children alike; The images of suffering‚ flame pits and blood‚ the smell of burning flesh‚ the shrieking of those who have fallen from grace. For centuries man has sought out ways to cleanse his soul‚ to repent for his sins and possibly secure his passage into paradise‚ all evoked by the fear of eternal damnation and pain. The early 20th century philosopher and existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre saw life as an endless realm
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Themes of Dante’s Inferno Dante’s Inferno exemplifies a Hell in which God’s justice is just as perfect as everything else he does. Each division of Hell along with the punishments within them seem to directly correspond to the sins man had commited on Earth. The punishments also become exceedingly more horrible the deeper one finds himself in Hell. As the story progresses‚ however‚ the character becomes less and less inclined toward pity‚ as he discovers that sinners receive punishment in perfect
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through Hell; his opinions change about the barbaric sinners‚ and he begins to believe they are evil and deserve their eternal torture. We are now in Canto XXXII and XXXIII‚ of Dante Alighieri’s “ The Inferno”‚ part of the “Divine Comedy”. He descends to the ninth circle of Hell‚ Cocytus. The first subsection is Caina. Here are the treacherous against blood ties. They are stuck in the thick ice on the freezing lake‚ with only their heads above the ice. Their sin is the lightest in Cocytus‚ so God allows
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that her actions were wrong‚ Hester matured mentally and she experienced a freedom that she had never felt before. Her development throughout the story displayed Hawthorne’s opinions on discrimination against others and confirmed that everyone is a sinner. Because Hester confessed her sin and suffered through
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Ulysses in Dante’s The Inferno Dante places many figures of Greek mythology‚ Roman antiquity‚ and some political enemies in Hell. For some of these people his reasoning suits their punishment‚ for others it doesn’t‚ and for some we don’t know enough about them to verify their placement. Ulysses is placed in the eighth circle of Hell and in the eighth bolgia with the evil counselors for his acts in the Trojan War. Dante’s reasoning behind his placement was unjust and Ulysses does not deserve the
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