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    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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    faced with an ignominious end‚ Dante Alighieri wrote his greatest work‚ The Divine Comedy. We can understand Dante’s motive in writing this epic by reading Cantos I through III of Dante’s Inferno. The Divine Comedy was a self-analysis by a man who found himself spiritually lost. Immediately in Canto I we see that Dante "the character" is lost on a spiritual level. He awakens mid-way through his life in a dark woods severed from both light and human connections. Dante is in the dark because he is guilty

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    Judging Individuals by their Appearances: A Pretty Face is Not Perfect In Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac‚ Roxane and Christian’s romance plays a key role in teaching us about the consequences of judging others superficially. He does this by telling a story about a love triangle comprised of Christian de Neuvillette‚ Roxane‚ and Cyrano de Bergerac. Christian and Roxane initially fall for each other due to physical attractiveness. However‚ Roxane only chooses to love Christian if he is eloquent

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    The Dante Club begins with the murder of fictional Chief Justice Judge Healey‚ who had avoided taking a position to stop or support the escaped slaves of the South. Found by his chambermaid near a white flag atop a short wooden staff‚ Healey had been hit in the head and then left in his garden to be eaten alive by strategically placed maggots and stung by hornets. Holmes‚ who examines the body for the police‚ recognizes the correlation between the murder and the punishments seen in Dante’s Inferno

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    In Dante Alighieri’s “Purgatorio” from his epic poem The Divine Comedy‚ sinners on the terrace of lust walk through a wall of fire to purge their sin. Dante’s symbolic use of fire is appropriate to curing their human imperfections as it represents the wild and irrational tempest that they displayed towards others while they were alive. Now‚ the lustful have the opportunity to feel the bite that they inflicted. Furthermore‚ Dante’s method of purgation relates to Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and

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    about a philosophical Christian‚ Dante Alighieri‚ who after being exiled from Florence‚ in the year 1302 Dante commenced to write his views on the repercussion of sinning in the form of 100 tersests. The formatting of this story is so meticulous for the reason that it has recurring themes‚ the number three. The story is based on three main parts all in the culmination of the pursuit of paradise. The first part is named the inferno‚ in which we meet our two main characters that will guide us down to the

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    The Count of Monte Cristo Character Analysis In the novel The Count of Monte Cristo‚ I read many events unfold. Edmond Dantes was a very happy and honest man. He has the perfect life‚ or so it seemed. On the day he was to be betrothed to Mercedes‚ three men tried to ruin his life. Dantes ended up in prison for fourteen years. Once he escaped prison‚ he sought revenge on those who lied to get him falsely accused of being a bonapartist agent. I think Edmond Dantes is the protagonist. He sees

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    Characters of Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès-The protagonist of the novel. Dantès is an intelligent‚ honest‚ and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful after he is framed for a crime he does not commit. When Dantès finds himself free and enormously wealthy‚ he takes it upon himself to act as the agent of Providence‚ rewarding those who have helped him in his plight and punishing those responsible for his years of agony. Lord Wilmore- The identity of an eccentric English nobleman that

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    Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) William-Adolphe Bouguereau The image depicts a scene from Inferno‚ a classical poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300’s in which Dante is led through the levels of Hell by the dead poet Virgil. In this particular moment‚ Dante is witnessing the horrors of the wrathful in Hell. Clearly‚ Dante is the figure cloaked in beige and covering his mouth in utter disbelief. His eyes‚ however‚ are not directed at the two fighting men. He is staring off towards the

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    Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a story about an adventure into Hell with Dante and Virgil. Afterlife is when people live in Heaven or Hell after they have died. Hell is a place where the bad go and get punished in many different ways. Dante’s view of the afterlife is much different than today’s view of afterlife. A sin is when you commit an illegal act in the eyes of God. It’s a violation of God and the ten commandments. When you arrive to Hhell you are given a specific area where you go‚ and depending

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