dante's inferno
Dante explores the imaginative communication between a soul's sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives in Hell- if there is such a thing. Although Christianity, religious philosophy etc are the raw themes, Dante still manages to manipulate his tale beyond all real reasoning to become that of imagination. Dante's Inferno therefore can be seen as a kind of imaginative categorization of human evil, the various types of which Dante creates and explores through his journey in Hell. Although he follows a strict religious doctrine and implies religious arguments of good and evil he rarely discusses them in Inferno. Rather Dante creates imagery and creatures that only exist in the mind's eye.Because the subject of the poem is afterlife (yet another journey) there's a subject of i
The plane on which the story will unfold is established. How are ideas about imaginative journeys conveyed? 'Midway on our life's journey, I found myself I n dark woods, the right road lost. In essence to read this poem without realising the context and the symbolic meaning is not to understand it in full. 'Our' links us, the readers, invites us to join Dante in the search of the 'right road'. Virgil promises Dante to show him punishments of hell. The lion being the bestial violence in relation to the sins of adulthood and the wolf symbolizing malicious sins, the sin of age. For example the three animals that Dante meets on his journey- leopard, lion and wolf. Dante uses mythological, religious as well as symbolic figures to enter the world of unknown, the world of philosophical speculation. The image of 'dark woods' also brings out images as well as associations of mainly dark unpredictable, wild. However the use of the words 'journey' and 'right road' can also have a spiritual meaning of Dante's future adventure, this is leaving the relm of literal. We are aware that Dante is lost not physically, rather in the world greater then the mortal can encounter (later in the poem we learn that Dante infect is recognised as being mortal by the fact that he has a shadow, which does not exist in Inferno). The leopard depicts the sin of self indulgence or inconsistence- in relation to the sins of youth.
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Inferno Dante,
Roman Empire,
Dante's Inferno,
Inferno Virgil,
Hell- Christianity,
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relation sins,
'right road',
dante creates,
symbolic meaning,
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