A Literary Review of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” is a narrative poem describing Dante’s journey through his perception of hell in search of salvation. Dante’s writing of this classic piece was greatly influenced by the politics in Florence during the late thirteenth century but the Inferno is much more than a political symbolic work of literature but is a beautifully poetic and allegorical. Inferno has made a memorable mark in European Literature as a great medieval
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literature in the middle ages and is mentioned in many writers’ works. The Inferno written by Dante Alighieri is one of the most recognized written works of the middle ages. He writes of a mans journey through the levels of hell to rediscover his faith in God and the purpose of divine justice. Although this book is just a small part of Dante’s complete epic poem it displays societies views on religion. In one of the first cantos Dante and his guide‚ Virgil‚ encounter sinners outside the gates of Hell. Bees
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Dante wakes up and he is exposed to the strongest odor crawl into his nose. He sees a bright light‚ and wonders if it is heaven but he is on a sweaty and moist floor. The mist has a putrid smell of eucalyptus and male fragrance‚ in combination with the smell of a Protein shaker bottle left inside a gym for a month. He gets up and walks toward the dim light in the other room‚ as he walks through this room‚ and Boom! A 10 Foot 750 pound man of forty years of age stands over Dante. The man flexes his
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The Just Punishments in Dante’s Inferno Inferno‚ written by Dante in the early fourteenth century‚ is a poem about Dante’s‚ the main characters‚ journey through Hell and signifies the nature of sin on Earth and punishment in Hell (Gardner et al online). Those who sinned while on Earth are justly condemned to different levels of punishments in Hell‚ relative to their sins on Earth. Each of the nine circles of Hell represents a worse sin‚ and therefore‚ a crueler punishment. The categorized punishments
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Dante’s Inferno depicts all the different types of major sins you can commit in your lifetime and the punishments you will endure thereafter. Dante had a system for these punishments that worked on the idea of divine justice. Basically‚ whatever temptations you succumbed to‚ you will be punished in a deserving manner based on how bad the sin was. Dante’s 9 circles were in order from bad to worse‚ 9 being the worst. One circle that Dante passed through was full of people who committed the sin of gluttony
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journey of our life‚ I woke in wonder in a sunless wood‚ for I had wandered from the narrow way. Dante Inferno Canto I Such was my sickness and my torture‚ as I accused myself even more bitterly than usual. I was twisting and turning in my chain until it
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Hell is a place of eternal punishment and torment. Mirroring Dante Alighieri’s concept of symbolic retribution‚ sinners are afflicted by the chief sins they committed. Within my version of hell‚ more attention is given to the common suffering sinners experience on their journey to their individualized punishment based on whether they committed sins of thoughts or actions‚ thus helping underscore the idea that no matter the sin committed‚ they all sinned against their Creator and deserve to travel
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Dodson Literature Mrs. Elliot February 9‚ 2012 Dante’s Inferno The second circle of this hell is lust. Dante set up his hell with nine levels. each level has a different punishment for a different sin. the lower level you go‚ the worse the punishment gets. the easiest punishment is level one which is paganism and it descends and gets harder from there. Each level is designed to accommodate the people that will be in it and the punishments that are in each. there are several images of people that
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1. The symbolism of the three beasts in Inferno I The three beasts‚ a leopard‚ a lion and a she-wolf‚ which impede Dante’s path as he tries to climb the sunlit hill‚ represent dark forces that threaten mankind. There are three interpretations that the beasts symbolize. Firstly the beasts represent the sins of lust‚ the leopard‚ pride‚ the lion‚ and avarice‚ the she-wolf. Second‚ the three beasts have a biblical analogue in Jeremiah‚ which states‚ “Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
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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. If we let go and confess‚ sin alone will be destroyed. Dante shows less sympathy
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