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    According to Dante‚ if people do not end up in either the Inferno or Paradiso‚ they are placed in Mount Purgatory. It is here that past sinners are able to repent‚ in hopes of eventually making it to heaven. The key differentiating factor between hell and Purgatory is that those in Purgatory have actual hope. Notably‚ Dante gives Purgatory the shape of a mountain. Like the Inferno‚ Mount Purgatory has multiple levels‚ depending on the sins people committed in their past life. Additionally‚ the

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    As our category of Hell ascend to our more serious issues or problems that cause disturbances‚ a tour is given to the ones who want to visit our version of Hell. A place for the ones who commit or correlate to nine levels of horrendous deeds is where you would find our irksome annoyances inserted. To navigate through the nine levels of madness‚ let us guide you through a journey with Beethoven in hand. With the attendance of the creators of this circle of hell‚ disastrous punishments lie ahead. Beethoven

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    We are first introduced to Dante’s best friend Guido Cavalcanti in The Vita Nuova in the XXIV Chapter dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti. Dante believes here that Guido’s heart “[is] still marvelled at the beauty of this gentile Primavera [(Beatrice])” (Vita Nuova 759). The Sonnet for Guido reveals their “brotherly” love towards each other and the support they confined within each other’s lives. The “gaze” is quite proven by Dante’s summary of his own work following the poem‚ where he explains in warm-heartedness

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    disguise contribute to dramatic comedy in Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night in set in an era of dramatic comedy under going changes‚ certain themes that used to perfectly acceptable although controversial was now seen to be distasteful and often looked down upon‚ this was due to the emergence(or rather acknowledgment) of two very different types of comedy: old comedy and new comedy‚ although neither were genre had a very high status in theatre compared to tragedies. Old comedy was used in theatre for a very

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    will is a primary factor in an individual or universe. The Divine Command Theory is the elemental belief that a divine being (“divine being‚” defined as the immortal being that is followed and believed)‚ commands morality and immorality‚ and that these ideas can only originate within this divine being. Moral law is a feature of a divine beings nature. Essentially‚ both a divine being and morality bear a direct correlation. To believe in Divine Command Theory‚ one believes

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    William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is labeled as a comedy. A comedy is a play that is built around something entertainingly funny. The tragedy genre is a story built around something awful that happened. This play is built up of both which would make this a tragic-comedy. Even though there are funny parts‚ there are also some sad/unfortunate parts. Much Ado About Nothing should be labeled as a tragic-comedy because there is a faked death caused by humiliation‚ and heartbreak in the play

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    play‚ “Much Ado About Nothing”‚ highlights the conventions of a Shakespearean comedy. Good morning teacher and students‚ I’m here to talk to you about Shakespeare’s clever comedy achieved by many techniques to amuse his audience. The main purpose of a comedy is to entertain the audience; Shakespeare has effectively achieved this through his ideas and techniques. The play mainly consists of conventional and satirical comedy that stems from the characterization of Dogberry‚ the absurd idea of cuckoldry

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    Humor is simply defined as “The quality of being amusing or comic‚ esp. as expressed in literature or speech.” In this paper a comparison of works one The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber and the other is the play I’m Going a Comedy in One Act by Tristan Bernard. Both of these readings provide humor in to an audience but they are given in completely different fashion‚ in James Thurber’s work the most dominating of the literary elements that was used was imagination while Tristan

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    that Shakespeare links madness with love to create comedy in Twelfth Night Twelfth Night or What You Will‚ which was first performed in 1602‚ includes words such as “mad”‚ “madman” and “madness” more than any other Shakespearean play. It is a reasonable assumption that Shakespeare was interested in the connections between madness and love and desired to explore it in Twelfth Night‚ which is undoubtedly one of his greatest comedies. The general comedy and chaos that results from madness and confusion

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    Carol and Dante’s Divine Comedy share many similarities and differences. Each novel is based around a central christian holiday‚ has a flawed main character encouraged to better themselves‚ and both manifest a tripartite structure. The greatest differences between the author’s and the literature are the time period‚ and the author’s personal lives. These are just a few examples of a how a Christmas Carol and Dante’s Inferno compare and contrast to one another. Dante’s Divine Comedy begins on Good

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