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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

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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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    Confessions: Christ Jesus

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    CONFESSIONS I am established in righteousness‚ and oppression is far from me (Isa. 54:14). I take the shield of faith‚ and I quench every fiery dart of the enemy (Eph. 6:16). I am redeemed from the curse of the law. I am redeemed from poverty. I am redeemed from sickness. I am redeemed from spiritual death (Gal. 3:13). I stand in the evil day having my loins girded about with truth‚ and I have the breastplate of righteousness. My feet are shod with the gospel of peace. I take the shield of faith

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    Confessions of a Working Teen When I took my first real job at age sixteen‚ it was ironically exciting. Working always seemed like a “grown-up thing”‚ something that defined a teenager as an emerging young adult. Finding my first opportunity of employment at McDonald’s was not exactly glamorous‚ but it was a stepping-stone in life I’d been waiting to take. I entered the experience with open arms and was ready to learn the ropes‚ but left with a feeling of regret in the end. Parents encourage their

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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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    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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    Ugolino is placed in the ninth circle‚ close to Satan. It can be seen throughout the Inferno that the lower down Dante and Virgil go‚ the more dehumanized the sinners are. This is because the souls that are damned to Hell participated in sins and vices that were considered unvirtuous‚ and by Aristotle’s thinking‚ being unvirtuous reduces the human to an animal-like

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