Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a handsome sailor‚ Edmond Dantes who is very successful in his life and career and even his love story. The novel also deals about revenge to those people who misjudged and envied Edmond Dantes. The plot was great since the main character was at his good fortune being the next captain of a ship‚ who has a great love story together with his fiancée. But some people are envious of Edmond Dantes’ almost perfect life. Because of this‚ people wrongly misjudged him
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Italian Literature A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue‚ faith‚ hope‚ and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians‚ true love and nobility‚ which are manifested in their literary works‚ are inseparable. FAMOUS POETS PROFILE WORKS SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS Horace Virgil Livy Ovid
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Summary The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante as he strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. Just as three wild animals threaten to attack him‚ Dante is rescued by the ghost of Virgil‚ a celebrated Roman poet and also Dante’s idol. When asked why in hell (pun intended) he came‚ Virgil answers that the head honchos of Heaven – the Virgin Mary and Santa Lucia – felt sorry for Dante and asked the deceased love-of-Dante’s-life‚ Beatrice‚ to
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crawlies are underfoot. Charon the river Acheron He is the ferryman who carries the sinners over into Hell. Charon is not‚ technically‚ being punished. He is one of the guardians in Hell‚ and he tries to scare the Poets away after he notices that Dante is still alive. Notice: In classical mythology‚ Charon guards the Styx (which is present in Dante’s Hell‚ as we’ll see later). But this is the first of Dante’s "poetic licenses." Virtuous Pagans -- those that lived BCE Circle I "Limbo" These people
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In the Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer expresses his opinion of societal roles through the use of satire. The author judges each character by the expected behavior that pertained to their line of work and how they actually acted. Through this comparison‚ he analyzes the anticipated perfection of character and the more realistic behavior increasingly prevalent in medieval society. Furthermore‚ this contradictory relationship of expected versus ideal behavior is displayed through the foil characters‚ the
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Canto I -The Dark Wood-Dantes meets the Lion‚ Wolf‚ and leopard that blocks his path to leave. Meets Virgil Canto II -Ante-Inferno-those who live without disgrace or praise (stuck constantly chasing after a banner (goal) for they never had a goal when they were alive. Passes Acheron‚ guarded by Limbo to enter Limbo. Ghosts do not feel compassion for those in other levels of hell except for their own. Canto III and IV -First circle of hell-limbo-virtuous but un baptized -punishment=no hope
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alis CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: Moral truths are applied to human existence everywhere and at all times. This is what the researchers believe in. In relation to this‚ a passage from ‘On Literature and Ethics’ by Eskin‚ Michael‚ says: “The distinctive ethical force of literature inheres not in the fictional world portrayed but in the handling of language whereby that fictional world is brought into being. Literary works that resist the immediacy and transparency
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but within the book known as The Inferno Of Dante they show exemplary examples. But many want to know why and by asking the author why he did what he did is the best question of all. Dante is a character in the book and he goes on a journey through hell and along with him he has a spiritual guide. The spiritual guide is Vigil and shows him the way‚ like reincarnation‚ before people get reborn into another life they have someone like god. Although Dante was not really reincarnated‚ he just went to
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Canterbury Tale and Art in middle Ages The Middle Ages have been regarded as extending approximately from the end of fifth century AD to 1600s. The Middle Ages were a society significantly more civilized and developed than previous times. Some sections of Italian society had begun to mimic the art and philosophy of ancient Greece‚ but commonly in Italy and Europe‚ generally no all-pervading change had occurred. The Canterbury Tale is a story written by Geoffrey Chauser in Middle English. It is
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marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty between husband and wife. Existing hierarchies restricted women; therefore‚ marriage fittingly presented more obstacles for women. Chaucer creates the dynamic personalities of the Wife of Bath and the Merchant to debate marriage intelligently while citing their experiences within marriage in their prologues. In the Prologue the Wife of Bath gives an account of her colorful
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