In the Divine Comedy‚ Dante goes through many circles of Hell. These circles symbolize the sins that the people in each circle have committed. Ironically‚ many people in modern day television shows‚ movies‚ or books commit most of these deadly sins. For example‚ the characters from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie have committed many of these sins. Augustus Gloop has committed the sin of gluttony‚ and Veruca Salt has committed the sin of greed. These characters‚ according to Dante‚ would
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Dante’s Real Inferno The three most significant influences on Dante Alighieri were his philosophical education‚ his political struggles in Florence throughout his life‚ and his infatuation with the woman known as Beatrice. Dante’s education played a major part in influencing his famous writing‚ Inferno. Dante grew up in Florence‚ a significant artistic and intellectual center throughout the 13th century‚ says Jay Rudd. Dante had private tutors in his youth and studied Christian theology at the
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sculpture created by Auguste Rodin in 1882. It was originally made of plaster‚ but other recreations of it are made of bronze. The Thinker was originally part of The Gates of Hell‚ which represented the poet Dante as he contemplated writing The Divine Comedy. The size of the statue varies between the many copies‚ but the original was around 2 feet. The original Thinker had a smooth texture and a dark color. The statue has a variety of proportions with many different balances because of its simplicity
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supported by lines 101 and 102 as “they made me one of their company‚ so I became the sixth among such wisdom”. By literally (haha pun) including himself with the greatest poets of all time‚ Dante not only seems convinced of his status for his Divine Comedy‚ but is arrogant in assuming eternal greatness. While
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Dante’s Divine Comedy is the tale of one man’s spiritual journey in the quest for salvation. He enters the Gates of Hell‚ descends to the bowls of the earth where he encounters Satan‚ and eventually is able to ascend through Purgatory. His journey culminates with his contemplation of the Mystic Rose. Dante’s description of his journey to Hell is as gruesome as his depiction of its master. As ugly as he once was beautiful‚ Satan is depicted as a huge‚ hideous dragon-like beast‚ with a shaggy
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credited the intense journey of Dante. The Swimmer‚ a story about a man’s eight-mile journey home‚ is a book that explores how a man reflects upon life. Many of the themes used in The Swimmer have been influenced by themes from Dante’s Inferno of The Divine Comedy. Both books explore how two men deal with the knowledge that they know that they have done something wrong and the physical as well as the mental journey both take to reach their destination. In The Swimmer‚ the protagonist Neddy chooses to
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Virgil Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome’s greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day. Virgil- Beatrice sends Virgil to Earth to retrieve Dante and act as his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Since the poet Virgil lived before Christianity‚ he dwells in Limbo (Ante-Inferno) with other righteous non-Christians. As author‚ Dante chooses the character Virgil to act as his guide because he admired
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a poem that was written halfway through Longfellow’s life and titled as such. It follows the life of a middle aged man who is basically whining about all the things he missed out on in the past. This title comes from the first line of Dante’s divine comedy which is translated to “Midway upon the journey of our life”. Society looks at their past as if “I could have done this in my past‚ I missed out on this and that.” Longfellow shows that people felt like that in 1842. He uses different poetic techniques
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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 two very distinct roles: either the divine love Beatrice represents‚ or the sinful female inhabitants of the Underworld in whom Dante sympathizes with. Women ’s sins‚ as depicted by Dante‚ tend to be overwhelmingly sexual in nature as
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“Through me the way into the suffering city//Through me the way to the eternal pain‚ //Through me the way that runs among the lost.//Justice urged on my high artificer;//My maker was divine authority‚//The highest wisdom‚ and the primal love.//Before me nothing but eternal things//were made‚ and I endure eternally.//Abandon every hope‚ who enter here.” Canto III 1-9 Venturing through the very depths of hell‚ Dante the pilgrim bears witness to the various consequences of the sins that humans have
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