For my visual I did a stop motion animation explaining how Edmond Dantès evolves and changes throughout the story. Dantès started to evolve and change when he was sent to the Châtaeu D’If‚ so I started my video by describing what Dantès was like before he was sent to prison. For the video‚ I used both words and pictures to show how Dantès changes throughout the story. The beginning of the video started out with the quote‚ “He was a tall‚ slender young man‚ no more than twenty years old‚ with dark
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works ever written‚ The Odyssey by Homer and The Inferno by Dante‚ are detailed‚ multi-sectioned poems about the journey’s of two men. In each story‚ the main character is given some sort of guidance by another character in order to aid them in their travels. In The Odyssey‚ Athena is portrayed as the protector to Odysseus on his journey back home from the Trojan War to his family in Ithaca. In The Inferno‚ Virgil is requested to lead Dante through the depths of Hell in order to save his soul. Many
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Title: The Divine Comedy Author: Dante Alighieri Type of Work: Poem Time and Place Written: Italy; Dante wrote the Divine Comedy from 1308 to 1320‚ completing the work the year before he died. Setting: Place Inferno – Hell; The Valley of Evil Purgatorio – Pugratory; The Mountain with Seven Cornices Paradiso – Paradise; Dante’s imaginative conception of Heaven Time: The evening of Good Friday through the morning of Easter Sunday in the year 1300 Characters: Dante - The author and protagonist of
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The novel begins with Edmond Dantes‚ an admirable young sailor who is about to marry his beautiful fiancé and become the captain of his own ship. Dantes seems to be have a very promising future; however‚ deep feelings of envy and jealously quickly arise in those around him. Dumas exemplified the forces of good against evil through various characters. In this novel negative characters plot to conspire against Dantes by writing a letter which falsely incriminated him. Dantes was then wrongfully imprisoned
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The Inferno written by Dante is a haunting and gruesome tale of one man’s journey through hell. Taking place in 1300 Dante writes about a character named Dante. Throughout the book we are not sure if the character is strictly sketched out like Dante himself or just simply named Dante. Most scholars of Dante believe that he used the name Dante but suggest that no evidence has been given to support the character Dante being based on the poet Dante. The Inferno is about Dante’s travels through hell
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protect Dante. Beatrice utilizes three different methods of trying to convince Virgil to aid in Dante’s salvation. Beatrice’s argument is very convincing because it not only makes Virgil feel sorry for Dante because Dante is suffering‚ but Beatrice also involves the Virgin Mary into her argument. The first means of convincing Virgil is mentioning that the higher power of the Virgin Mary is very upset over Dante. Her will wants Dante to be saved‚ thus Beatrice is put in charge of helping Dante. Beatrice
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“The Feminine” in Dante’s The Inferno Like many great authors throughout time‚ Dante Alighieri demonstrates the underlying significance of female characters in his epic‚ The Inferno. Due to the misconceptions men had of women during this era‚ women were granted much less societal acceptance and were easily labelled as seductresses. More so‚ Beatrice’s character suggests a much deeper relationship to Dante – one more than plain‚ physical love. In this sense‚ the women in this poem partake in
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The Count of Monte Cristo: No Human is a God “[Dantes] realized that he had exceeded the limits of vengeance‚ he realized that he could no longer say: ‘God is for me and with me.’” (1181). The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is set right after the first Napoleonic Wars‚ telling a story of vengeance conducted by a man‚ Edmond Dantes‚ a sailor‚ towards the three men that wrongfully imprisoned him for a crime he had not committed. Upon his escape from the Chateau D’If‚ where he was imprisoned
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prison‚ Dantes initially turns to God. He keeps his self together with prayer‚ eventually he got depressed. He is so sick with grief and hopelessness that he finally decides to kill himself by not eating. Just when he’s about to die‚ he hears a scratching sound coming from the other side of his cell. When the jailer comes to give him his dinner‚ Dantes places his dish in a spot where the jailer will be sure to step on it. The dish breaks and the jailer left the entire pot for Dantes. Dantes is able
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Edmond Dantes is a promising young man with his whole life ahead of him. He is betrothed to a beautiful woman and about to become the captain of a large ship‚ which would bring him much wealth. Then‚ his whole life is shattered by the betraying of his very own colleagues. Fernand Mondego was one of those who was jealous of Dantes and decided to take action for fear of losing the woman of his dreams. In the end‚ Dantes takes revenge on Fernand Mondego by simply paying back the favor which Mondego
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