Canterbury Tales Compared to Dante’s Inferno This study will explore the themes of innocence and guilt in the "Hell" section from Dante’s Divine Comedy and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The study will focus on the uses each author makes of urban and more natural settings to convey messages about innocence and guilt. While both Dante and Chaucer make use of this motif in making their thematic points‚ a great difference exists between them. Chaucer’s primary purpose is to present a humorous and compassionate
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Cerberus the three-headed dog with a mane and tail full of snakes‚ also known as Kerberos‚ was believed to be the offspring of Typhon and Echidna‚ this relation makes Cerberus’ relatives‚ the Sphinx‚ Hydra‚ and Chimera. Cerberus’ brother Orpheus is a monstrous two-headed dog and Cerberus’ Egyptian counterpart‚ Anubis‚ is the Egyptian dog that guarded the tombs and guided the souls to the underworld. In Norse Mythology‚ Garm‚ another monstrous dog is guarding the house of the dead. Cerberus was
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me on the autumnal blast The cataract2 of Death far thundering from the heights. 1842 —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Mezzo Cammin1 Written at Boppard on the Rhine August 25‚ 1842‚ 1 The title is from the first line of Dante’s Divine Comedy: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita” (“Midway upon the journey of
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Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. Inferno is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell‚ guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem‚ Hell is described as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically‚ the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul towards God‚ with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. Because Dante is an educated Christian‚ he uses mythological references to make Hell
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Dante faints. While the horrific storm continues to manifest‚ but Virgil carries Dante to the first circle of Hell. As the story continues into the next chapter‚ Cantos 4‚ the audience learns about the first layer of Hell. A loud clap of thunder woke Dante from unconsciousness. After he woke up‚ he realized he was on the other side of the river. As he looked down below him‚ he noticed that there was a deep valley that stretched in front of him; this was the first circle of Hell‚ known as Limbo.
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Every time the word hell comes up‚ the first thing that comes to mind is a hot underground warehouse that is home to many bad people who passed away. Nevertheless‚ hell is a scorching dwelling for evil human beings. However‚ some may argue in saying that hell is a freezing dungeon. Maybe those people probably got that information from an excommunicated Catholic who made up hell and decided who was inside of the “Inferno”. Then again‚ our religious beliefs are all made up. It is that people have faith
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end of his journey through Hell; his opinions change about the barbaric sinners‚ and he begins to believe they are evil and deserve their eternal torture. We are now in Canto XXXII and XXXIII‚ of Dante Alighieri’s “ The Inferno”‚ part of the “Divine Comedy”. He descends to the ninth circle of Hell‚ Cocytus. The first subsection is Caina. Here are the treacherous against blood ties. They are stuck in the thick ice on the freezing lake‚ with only their heads above the ice. Their sin is the lightest
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and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.” These three major biblical fallacies are the major reasons that Dante’s Inferno can really only be looked at as a fictional story. Firstly‚ throughout all of The Divine Comedy‚ Dante shows extreme bias against his enemies. Time and
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In the BBC article “How comedy makes us better people”‚ Mary O’Hara claims comedy holds a very relevant place in not only British politics and culture‚ but also in the entire world because it can be used to comprehend and come to terms with confusing events or tragedies‚ challenge the authority of our governments‚ and destroy bigoted states of mind. Humor continues to mystify the philosophers and intellects that study it to this day. Why does humor play a major part in our everyday lives? What is
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Dante’s Hell is based on a law of symbolic retribution – the talion or “divine justice.” Dante believed that the world‚ including art‚ is created by the “divine word‚” and that all meaning ultimately comes from God. The Inferno‚ then is a poem about the consequences of denying God. In essence‚ the punishments fit the crimes. The lower eight circles are a structured according to the Aristotelian concept of virtue and vice and are grouped into sins of incontinence (corresponding
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