The Athenians reached a phase of excellence that the stylistic qualities they used of precision‚ harmony‚ balance‚ and the amount of austerity has become known as they classical style. This declaration of excellence describes their political‚ social‚ and cultural life (Sayre 192). This style signifies anything of the highest class. The achievements of Greek art have extended to many other places throughout time. An example of this classical style from Greece is the Kritios Boy from 480 BCE. This
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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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views of Heaven‚ Hell‚ and Judgment. The directors do this by reshaping standard images of Heaven‚ eliminating Hell and restructuring Judgment. All together this created a vastly different afterlife than was constructed by classic artists such as Dante‚ and Michelangelo. Death is uniquely contradictory in Stairway to Heaven. Death seems to be both predetermined and structured but also negotiable. Conductor 71 alludes that he knows June will live a long life‚ and seems to know the exact day and
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most important character throughout the whole ‘Comedia’ apart from‚ of course the protagonist Dante. The aim for this essay will be to introduce the character of Beatrice and the themes and ideas associated with her that are fundamental to know for the reading of ‘Paradiso’ and the ‘Comedia’. Beatrice is one of the main figures who is responsible for initiating and motivating the personaggio of Dante to take his journey through the whole of the ‘Commedia’. She acts as his guide from the early
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Dante’s Inferno‚ Marvel’s “His Coy Mistress‚”. In this way‚ Eliot sets forth a psychological comparison to assist the reader in understanding of Prufrock’s psyche and existentialist attitude toward life. Dante’s Inferno is his allegorical depiction of hell that depicts hell as a set of nine levels (or circles) closely aligned to the seven deadly sins and a that once we die‚ we descend into a level consistent with the type of sins committed and in which we stay for eternity. Dante wrote‚ “S’io
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obvious‚ his ignorance shows throughout the story‚ too. Smithers shows his ignorance many times. He tries to sound intelligent by saying “…you don’t have to quote the whole Inferno to show that you’ve read Milton…” (44). Smithers shows his ignorance here because he is not aware that Milton did not write the Inferno‚ but Dante Alighieri did. Smithers thinks that rooming with Linley is going to make him a more intelligent man and maybe a better salesman. He does not understand that just being around
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friends that he was still a virgin at age 26‚ and had great difficulty interacting with women‚ which is the subject at the root of this poem. Eliot opens the poem with a passage from Dante’s Inferno‚ specifically the passage in which Guido da Montefeltro agrees to tell Dante his personal story solely because Dante‚ too‚ is in Hell with no hope of return just like himself. This suggests that Prufrock is one of the damned and intends to speak only to those who are in his same situation. The poem itself
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salvation because he was contemplating suicide. Dante see what happens to people that commit suicide; they are trees that cannot talk unless pain is inflicted on them. This symbolizes people committing suicide. The trees let a horrific scream when the when they dismembered‚ it causes them to bleed as well. The reason the souls are trees is that they rejected life‚ there for they have to be constantly reminded of what they did to their own selves. Dante knew now what he thought before was wrong; that
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Frankenstein Literary Essay What would you do if you were in a position to act as god? That is what the gothic book Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein focuses on. Frankenstein incorporates many aspects of a classic gothic novel such as themes that play out throughout the book. The characters in the novel have become archetypes for many gothic novels. The setting reflects the chilling themes as it is the background for the characters plummet into despair. Frankenstein is an excellent example of a gothic
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the ancient hero of Homer’s Odyssey (“Ulysses” is the Roman form of the Greek “Odysseus”) and the medieval hero of Dante’s Inferno. Homer’s Ulysses‚ as described in Scroll XI of the Odyssey‚ learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. The details of this sea voyage are described by Dante in Canto XXVI of the Inferno: Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and driven by “the longing I had to gain experience of the world.” Dante’s Ulysses
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