Dante's Inferno Outline

Dante’s inferno Animated Epic Outline I. The Arrival a. Dante returns from the Third Crusade which has had him away from his home for several years. b. In monologue, he has a grim feeling because of the woods. He senses someone following him c. Upon reaching home, he finds his father dead, and his beloved Beatrice dying of a stab wound. d. She is relieved of his return and her spirit began to ascend to heaven but Lucifer snatched and dragged her into the gates of hell. e. Dante runs after them and is briefly stalled by Virgil who offers to become his guide. Dante uses his will and his faith to pry the gates open. II. Entry into Hell a. Dante and Virgil board Charon, a demonic ferry that takes souls across into
Dante then commands it to charge into the city where he sees Lucifer announcing his plans of marriage to the souls in the city. Dante strikes Phlegyas down, and chases after Lucifer. c. A flash back reveals Dante’s experience as a crusader where Kind Richard gives silly orders that strained his patience and makes him doubt the value of his prisoners lives. VIII. Heresy - for the heretics, people who have gone against the teaching of their churches a. Dante comes across Farinata, another man Dante hated in life, who taunts Dante by revealing Lucifer's plan to wed Beatrice and trap her in hell forever b. Dante kills Farinata in rage just before the circle collapses from the force of Christ’s death which Virgil says, quakes the circle eternally. IX. Violence - Souls boil in a vast river of blood from their own victims; violence they had inflicted upon others a. Virgil helps Dante face the minotaur, guardian of the Circle, causing an easy defeat by using the beast’s own anger against him. They cross the river with the help of the centaur, Nessus. b. Dante find his mother in the Forest of Suicides, where she is tortured for hanging herself, unable to stand his father’s violence. He was told she had died of a fever. In sorrow, Dante uses his cross to free