Rhetorical Constructions of Dante’s Inferno In his mildly satiric epic poem The Inferno (1317)‚ Dante Alighieri asserts that individuals must learn to reconcile their sympathy and emotional naiveté for the acceptance of suffering and the violence of God’s justice. He suggests that pity for sinners clouds an individual’s pursuit of stringent moral standards and could make him or her unfit for entrance into Purgatory or Heaven. Dante elicits his argument against the notion of pity through the use of a dual narrative
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Finding His Father At sea on a long voyage of about three years‚ Edmond Dantes is finally able to come back home to France. Dantes returns back to France hoping to see his father and fiancée but doesn’t see what he had hoped too. Once Dantes arrived to France he was immediately jumped on by his fiancée Mercedes. The two were so excited to see each other. After a few minutes of being with Mercedes‚ Dantes asked‚ “Where is my father?” Mercedes was slow to begin‚ not knowing what to say. Edmond once
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encounter between Dante‚ the main character‚ and Filippo Argenti‚ a member of the condemned‚ deals with Dante’s response to Argenti’s place in hell‚ his disdain for Argenti‚ and his symbolic rejection of sin by his actions. Dante has no sympathy towards Argenti even though Argenti is condemned to stay in the slimy River of Styx until the Judgment. Dante holds great animosity towards Argenti carried on from conflicts they have had in life to the putrid circles of hell. The hostility Dante demonstrates
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The Contrapasso in Circle Eight The Inferno is the first of three books about a pilgrim named Dante journeying his way through Hell on an ultimate quest to get to Heaven. This story is all an allusion of Dante‚ the author‚ and his journey through life and the trials he has to go through. While in Hell‚ Dante encounters many sinners who have specific punishments tailored to fit their crime. Dante calls the idea of a punishment fitting its crime the “contrapasso”. I believe that the contrapasso is
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Dante Algheri’s poem‚ the Inferno‚ attempts to perfect the concept of Divine Justice. Main Christian religious ideals and Dante’s political views and past encompass the concept of Divine Justice. Dante‚ born in 1265 in Florence‚ Italy‚ belonged to a family intensely involved in the political scene at a time of upheaval and unrest. Dante augmented his political standing by holding several public offices at a time of political unrest‚ and further‚ exiled from Florence. Dante’s political beliefs and
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place created by Dante Alighieri; The Inferno is exactly the type of Hell where no person would want to be. Even those who acted upon the lightest of sins suffered greatly. While each realm contained a different sinner‚ the punishment that each were forced to face was cruel‚ repulsive‚ and sometimes rather disgusting. Through grieving tears without an exit‚ unbearably itchy scabs‚ and a putrid‚ slushy ground‚ Dante uses vivid imagery to describe the various realms of Hell. As Dante passes through
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several political offices. Summary The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante as he strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. Just as three wild animals threaten to attack him‚ Dante is rescued by the ghost of Virgil‚ a celebrated Roman poet and also Dante’s idol. When asked why in hell (pun intended) he came‚ Virgil answers that the head honchos of Heaven – the Virgin Mary and Santa Lucia – felt sorry for Dante and asked the deceased love-of-Dante’s-life
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The Insanity of Edmond Dantes In the story The Count of Monty Christo by Alexander Dumar‚ Edmond Dantes is to become the captain of the ship Pharaon. He is framed for collaborating with a traitor. Edmond is sent to prison without a proper trial. The prison‚ Château d’If‚ is a terrible place. Dantes finds the captivity more than he can bear and becomes suicidal (59) Edmond is actually insane and hallucinates most of the story. Edmond is actually in his cell for the majority of the book‚ and predicts
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Figuring out who you are is hard‚ but for Edmond Dantes‚ it’s even worse. So many things have happened to him‚ shaping his character from person to person. Being in prison for so long took all the optimism and hope he had when he first came off the ship. Being someone else after he escaped so people wouldn’t know who he was changed him. He started acting like the person he was pretending to be and less like himself and how he was before prison. His life became revolved around the aspect of revenge
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highly regarded as one of the great literary works of all time. The most famous of the Divine Comedy‚ the Inferno‚ is the story of Dante’s journey through Hell. With the great poet‚ Virgil‚ as his guide‚ they make their way through the nine circle of Hell in which Dante describes. While‚ very much a religious work‚ it is also just as political in substance because of the ways in which Dante draws on his life experiences to influence and shape his version of Hell. His descriptions of Hell are still
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