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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rather die upholding my beliefs rather than living in false testimony. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ Reverend Hale tells Elizabeth that “ no principle‚ however glorious “ is worth dying for‚ and he argues that it is better to give a false confession than to dye for a principle of belief. I do not agree. Would you die for a principle you do not believe? In The Crucible‚ Proctor died keeping his good name. He would not confess to something to which he did not believe/true to be a free man
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are proud figures who appear divided‚ with only the top halves of their bodies visible to Dante and Virgil. Similarly‚ half the bodies of Cassius‚ Judas‚ and Brutus are inside Lucifer’s massive jaws. Count Ugolino‚ on the other hand‚ is doubled with his mortal enemy‚ Archbishop Ruggieri. Can you think of other divided or doubled figures entangled in Dante’s infernal web of pride? Why do you suppose Dante puts usury in the category of crimes that violate nature? I believe he puts usury in the
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which leads to a variety of standpoints. In Augustine’s Confessions and Plato’s The Phaedrus‚ we see good and evil through different perspectives. Augustine‚ for example‚ both uses and challenges Plato’s ideas of the nature of the soul. He also challenges and transforms the ideas of the Manicheans‚ a religious group who strongly believed in the influence of outside forces. In George Lucas’s Star Wars‚ there
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Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante becomes afraid and retreats to lower ground when he
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THEMES The Limits of Human Justice- Edmond Dantès takes justice into his own hands because he is dismayed by the limitations of society’s criminal justice system. Societal justice has allowed his enemies to slip through the cracks‚ going unpunished for the heinous crimes they have committed against him. Moreover‚ even if his enemies’ crimes were uncovered‚ Dantès does not believe that their punishment would be true justice. Though his enemies have caused him years of emotional anguish‚ the most
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the poem‚ Dante’s Divine Comedy‚ the author‚ Dante‚ portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself‚ we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem‚ you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles‚ he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante portrays in the poem‚ as well as‚ compassion
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can be seen throughout the poem. Some of these themes are the idea of contrapasso‚ or the notion that the punishment dealt fits the crime committed‚ the portrayal of Hell as being devoid of hope‚ and the importance of fame. The images and language Dante uses to describe his experiences in the middle ring of the seventh circle of Hell‚ which houses the suicides‚ provide the reader with the feeling of despair and hopelessness present throughout the text‚ while also serving to show the idea of contrapasso
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of a traitor that Dante considered the worst: Judas‚ Brutus‚ and Cassius. Described as the “Great Worm
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away from God in Heaven did not want to be higher up because they completely accepted the role of God in deciding where they would end up. One soul that Dante talked to in this circle of Heaven said‚ "We thirst for this alone. If we desired to be higher up‚ then our desires would not be in accord with His will Who assigns us to this sphere" (Dante 406). However‚ Pico believes that Man should constantly "despise the things of heaven‚ and‚ judging little of what is in this world‚ fly to the court
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