are very crucial to the success of any nation‚ and they’ve always been held as important to a country’s survival. So‚ in turn‚ politicians are important to a functioning government‚ and one specific politician that was an inspiration in his time was Dante Alighieri. Alighieri‚ who lived in Florence from about 1265 to 1321‚ was a politician‚ and a poet. During his time as a politician in Florence‚ Alighieri had acquired many companions‚ but he also saw the dark corruption deep within the Church at that
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works -- Dante’s Divine Comedy‚ and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales -- and analyze what the nature of evil meant to each of these authors. The Divine Comedy is an epic poem in which the author‚ Dante‚ takes a visionary journey through Hell‚ Purgatory‚ and Paradise. The purpose of Dante’s visit to Hell is to learn about the true nature of evil. He is guided in this journey by the ghost of the Roman classical
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Dante believed that pious choices and religious views could get you closer to God. By hating sinners and thinking that you are above them‚ you are able to get closer to Heaven. Readers are able to see the pious growth in Dante throughout the story as he moves from pitying spirits to despising and attacking them. In the beginning of the Inferno‚ Dante meets Paolo and Francesca. These two sinners are punished for their lustful affair‚ causing Dante such grief that he faints (5.141-142). “... And I
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Dante’s Inferno “Dante’s Inferno” is a comedy based on his journey through the nine layers of hell. The voyage started in the 1300’s‚ during Easter Week‚ and the descent to hell began on Good Friday. After Dante finds his guide to the Underworld‚ Virgil who is also a poet‚ in a mysterious dark wooded area‚ they begin their journey to hell‚ a treacherous place with the most horrendous tortures. Dante become lost on his journey and he states that he does not remember how he became lost but he wandered
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In the epic poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri‚ Dante’s experiencing pity for the damned souls in hell defies the Medieval Church’s concept of the absolute nature of Divine Wisdom. Dante’s natural impulse to pity those who suffer in Hell causes him to focus on their sufferings‚ rather than the fact that their punishments are merely a reflection of God’s Divine Justice. Dante initially pities the damned souls because he fears that the consequences of his own bad behaviors may also lead him into Hell
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the world around us; however‚ one often debates the manner in which one should come to correct moral decisions‚ and achieve a virtuous existence. Dante has an uncanny ability to represent with such precision‚ the trials of the everyman’s soul to achieve morality and find unity with God‚ while setting forth the beauty‚ humor‚ and horror of human life. Dante immediately links his own personal experience to that of all of humanity‚ as he proclaims‚ "Midway along the journey of our life / I woke to find
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Rosas 10/26/11 Roger Chillingworth: The Worst Sinner? Who would it be to consider the worst sinner. Going through each of the puritans‚ it seems that three of them would be the worst sinner. Out of Author Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne; Roger Chillingworth would be consider the worst sinner‚ because he never manage to confess his sin to others and remains with it for the rest of his life. Although Author Dimmesdale may seem to be the worst sinner‚ he actually manages to confess his sin to the public
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To understand the literature of the medieval period‚ you must first understand the medieval world. Song of Roland and Dante’s Inferno clearly state two major medieval values as to how humans should act. Starting around the 14th century‚ European thinkers‚ writers and artists began to look back and celebrate the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Then‚ they dismissed the period after the fall of Rome as a “Middle” or even “Dark” age in which no exact accomplishments had been made‚ no great
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Essay The Inferno I enjoyed The Inferno‚ by Dante‚ tremendously. Typically‚ I am a history student and The Inferno was the first classic in the world of literature that I have enjoyed. I enjoyed it because it blended my love of history and my love of reading together. In The Inferno Dante brings up real people from history. Dante uses the real people as examples of what a person must do to enter a specific portion of hell. For example‚ when talking about the sin of rage and aggression‚ Dante brings
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also know as “Satan” in Dante’s Inferno‚ Dante gives the description of Satan as being a frozen three headed hairy being with a tremendous huge width of bat wings . As of today’s time era when people think of a description of hell and Satan first thing that may come to mind is usually a person in all red‚ horns on their head‚ bull like figure‚ a tail‚ and surrounded by fire. In church some may have been taught that satan has a “lake of fire” that is wear sinners that didn’t obey god and his ten
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