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    Matt Whited Professor Fyfe ENL106-01 Option #5 Final Paper The geography of each hell and its denizens changes drastically through out the decades‚ as literature is spread across the world. The earliest piece that I chose to examine was Dante Alighieri’s Inferno‚ which dates back to sometime between 1265 and 1321. I also chose Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1564-1593)‚ Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit (1945) to show the transformation over time. The final piece of literature that I picked

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    1. The theme of the film is Love because it focused on the love of Dante to Beatrice and the sacrifices he did for her. That up until the end‚ he really did everything for Beatrice. But love was also shown not only because of Beatrice but also because of Dante challenged the notion that hell may have been created out of love. While the theme of the epic poem is Compassion and Forgiveness. The poem focused on Dante’s pity to those who are in hell and he even also suffers or sympathizes with the sinner

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    PAOLO AND FRANCESCA  Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  more Artful Romance | François-Auguste-René Rodin (1886) |      The story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta is told in Inferno (part of Divine Comedy) by Dante. Paolo and Francesca were historical contemporaries of Dante. Francesca’s father‚ Guido da Polenta‚ lord of Ravenna had waged a long war with Malatesta‚ lord of Rimini. Finally peace was made through intermediaries‚ and to make it more firm‚ they decided to cement it with a marriage

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    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 comparison‚ everyone in life has a Guardian Angel assigned to them‚ as Dante had his own guide in his journey. But to compare all parts of life to the Inferno‚ one must start at the beginning to realized the end. The birth of body‚ and the death of the soul. Midway on his journey through life‚ Dante realizes he has taken the wrong path.

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    Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth

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    Part One (Theme and Setting Questions) 1.Considering the following statement‚ "Revenge makes the avenger feel much better’‚ find examples in the novel that prove or disprove the statement. The novel proves that this statement is true because when Dantès found out the truth‚ he wanted nothing more than revenge; this is why he had escaped from the Chateau D’if and sought out the treasure on the isle of Monte Cristo. Using the treasure he quickly inflicted damage onto his enemies rather slowly. He tortured

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    response towards his exile. Conversations between Hell’s inhabitants and Dante the pilgrim‚ as well as the latter’s observations within the narrative‚ reflect Dante the author’s attitudes towards the historical events he had witnessed throughout his life. Dante’s Hell is fundamentally Christian‚ and takes shape around the entirety of biblical canon‚ for it was Christ’s battle within Hell that allowed for Dante the author to use Dante the pilgrim’s journey through Hell as a representation of the grace

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    what is good and evil. These come with rewards and punishments‚ Dante Alighieri’s epic poem‚ the Divine Comedy‚ gives an insight to the culmination of medieval thinking developed by the Church. Since Dante’s date of birth is unknown‚ it is theorized that he was born around 1265. He was born in Florence at the early stages of the Renaissance‚ and he is considered a forerunner of it because of the way he created the Italian language. Dante combined Tuscany‚ a regional dialect‚ with Latin and other dialects

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    The Canterbury Tales Essay Planner Thesis: Chaucer uses ironic descriptions of the characters in the "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" to voice his opinion on social problems that are on the rise in the mid 1300’s. Implications include greed‚ the loss of chivalry and the lack of loyalty to the church. These implications are easily illustrated by Chaucer using what you would expect from these certain characters and twisting those expectations to form a completely opposite person. Greed:

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    Discuss Chaucer’s art of characterization with special reference to The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s art of characterization. What the General Prologue offers is a brief‚ often very visual description of each pilgrim‚ focusing on details of their background‚ as well as key details of their clothing‚ their food likes and dislikes‚ and their physical features. These descriptions fall within a common medieval tradition of portraits in words (which can be considered under the technical term ekphrasis)

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