Catherine Craven GHUM200‚ Tu/Th 12:25 October 23rd‚ 2012 Compare the relationship between Virgil and Dante in Inferno with Sigmund Freud’s discussion of the conscience or super-ego in Civilization and Its Discontents. How does Freud explain and characterize the relationship between super-ego and ego in the individual? Cite examples of the interaction between Virgil and Dante and compare closely with Freud’s discussion of the psychical agencies‚ super-ego and ego: To what extent does the dynamic
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In many ways‚ Dante’s Inferno can be seen as a kind of imaginative grouping of human evil that is addressed into nine circles that descend into the depths of hell. At times it is very questionable the way Dante wrote the circles‚ wondering why they were created the way they were. For example‚ a sin in the Eighth Circle of Hell‚ bribe‚ would be considered worse than a sin in the Sixth Circle of Hell‚ murder. To understand this‚ one must realize that Dante followed very strict Christian values during
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The Woods Dante’s Inferno opens in the setting on Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante
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the Odyssey VS. Virgil in the Inferno Two of the greatest 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
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several children. He began writing poetry at a very young age. After he was exiled from Florence he wrote the epic poem‚ Divine Comedy. It is believed that some of the epic poem‚ of the Inferno was written about the people in his life that wronged him. Dante the poet creates Dante the character in the Inferno. Dante‚ the character‚ in the Fourth Bolgia is in an astonishing disbelief by the punishment of the sinners in the Eighth Circle of Hell. In Canto XX‚ Dante and Virgil journey through
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Dante‚ the pilgrim‚ experienced Hell and as he reached the bottom of Hell‚ he experienced something completely different opposed to what readers would have expected. Dante Alighiere’s depiction of Satan once he reaches the bottom of Hell reveals the theme‚ that in Hell the punishment is always befitting of the sin. As Dante and his tour guide‚ Virgil‚ arrive at the last circle‚ Satan is described to have‚ “three faces on his head...underneath each came forth two mighty wings...at every mouth he with
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religions. Each of these religions has had an idea of what the afterlife consists of. Many artists and authors have portrayed their versions in their works. One of the best known authors is Dante Alighieri who wrote “The Divine Comedy”. In “Volume I: Inferno” Dante describes his version of hell in detail. There are nine circles of hell according to Dante; some even have multiple levels within themselves. Each level is centered on a specific kind of sinner that has to spend eternity in hell and they
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Garrett Beckstrom Mrs. Benson-Flannery English 2 Honors 3 April 2014 The Inferno and the Journey of Dante ’s Soul The Inferno by Dante Alighieri‚ written in the fourteenth century‚ remains regarded as one of the most influential literary works of all time. The epic poem tells of the journey of Dante through the Nine Circles of Hell‚ and of his many encounters with historical‚ and mythological figures. Acceptance of God ’s ultimate authority on good and evil is portrayed as key test of a mortal soul
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Professor Fyfe ENL106-01 Option #5 Final Paper The geography of each hell and its denizens changes drastically through out the decades‚ as literature is spread across the world. The earliest piece that I chose to examine was Dante Alighieri’s Inferno‚ which dates back to sometime between 1265 and 1321. I also chose Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1564-1593)‚ Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit (1945) to show the transformation over time. The final piece of literature that I picked‚ and also found
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The world will turn into a chaos because the only thing that stop people from doing bad things are punishments. -It’s easier to do bad things than good things. “So that the Universe felt love‚ by which‚ as some believe‚ the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock‚ here and elsewhere‚ fell broken into pieces.”(canto 10) God wants to destroy sin‚ but at the same time lovingly save the sinner. If we continue to hold on to sin we will be destroyed along with sin
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