Divine ComedyDante's Divine Comedy is a moral comedy that is designed to makethe readersthink about their own morals. The poem could have been used almost as aguide for whatand what not to do to get into Heaven for the medieval people. Dantetakes the reader ona journey through the "afterlife" to i...

In Dante\'s \"The Divine Comedy,\" the reported direct speeches of particular characters – namely Francesca, Ulysses, and Count Ugolino – reflect important connections between Dante\'s work and the characters\' deeds. Francesca\'s romantic speech of courtly love, Ulysses\' rhetorical words, and ...

While Homer's The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, and Dante's "The Divine Comedy" share the characteristic of being epic poems, they each offer different accounts and opinions of what lies in Hell. While Homer's account of Hell is largely filled with encounters of different personalities, the ...

The Divine Comedy is a tale of the Pilgrim (Dante\'s ego) beginning his travel through Hell (Inferno) and learning about sin\'s pervasiveness. The torments of the sinners, who exist forever without hope of redemption or of an end to their suffering, graphically illustrate sin\'s consequences. As the...

Movers and Shakers: Dante Have you ever thought about what comes next? What comes after life? The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri pondered this same question, and over the course of his 56 year life, he would come to change the world, touch lives, and question faith all with the power of hi...

It was said that amongst the three Divine Comedies of Dante, Paradiso is the least read. But being the least in terms of audience reading does not make it into a bad literary creation. It is, in fact, the best. Unlike Inferno and Purgatoryo, Paradiso offers the readers complete perfection. T...

In several literature works the objective is for the reader to understand the concept that the author is implying. Dante\' Algheri\'s The Divine Comedy is a classic example. This poem centrally represents the expression of the medieval mind in imaginative literature. The symbolism in \"The Inferno\...

Although both stories are tragedies and contain great suffering, Dante is without a doubt the stronger of the two characters. The men share a commonality of fate stepping in and deciding their actions for them. Dante's fate, however was a much better one than Lear's was. Dante thought hi...

Dante Reaction PaperIn his lecture, Professor Mark Dantmore says that Purgatorio is "almost science fiction" to people of the time it was written. I find it very interesting that a book in the Divine Comedy, something the Catholics take as truth, might be described this way. Of course Purgatorio i...

Life After Death?Eventually, everyone dies. At some point, most people wonder what will happen in the after death. Is there a heaven and hell? Are we punished for our sins? Or is death just the end, there is nothing afterwards? Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in part to describe what he viewed h...

Dante Alighieri wrote when he was poor. Dante Alighieri wrote when he lost his loved ones. Dante Alighieri wrote when he was exiled out of Florence, Italy. How could he do it? Simple, he was prepared for challenges, independent, he had a focus, and always had a sense of higher purpose. From the...

Style In Candide, Voltaire uses many writing techniques which can also be found in the works of Cervantes, Alighieri, Rabelais and Moliere. The use of the various styles and conventions shows that, despite the passage of centuries and the language differences, certain writing techn...

\"The Comedy,\" later renamed \"The Divine Comedy,\" was written by Dante Alighieri of Florence, Italy. In the early 14th century, while in exile, Dante wrote this epic poem, which is broken down into three books. In each book, Dante recounts his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, respecti...

The Draw of SatanTypically in classical litterature Satan is portrayed as the antagonist. In the Divine Comedy, for example, Dante leads the reader through a terrrifying portrayal of Hell. Each creature, a creation of Satan, is more horrible than the last. The reader leaves this stage of the book...

Constantine Brancusi, a Romanian sculptor born in 1876, is considered one of the first creators in modern art. As a young man he was a craftsman in woodcarving. From 1898-1902, he studied at the National Fine Arts School in Bucharest. In 1904, after traveling through Budapest, Vienna, Munich, an...

Be sure to read the introduction to this section ("The Formation of a Western Literature" 1541­ 1545) carefully. Latin as a "universal" language of the educated and the continent­wide domination of the Catholic Church made a European culture possible. (By the way, "Catholic" doesn't have the denom...

Albert Einstein once said, \"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist\" (Art). This quote can define many artists over time, especially Auguste Rodin. Rodin was an incredibly talented sculptor of the nineteenth century. He created numerous well-known pieces including ...

Dear Dante, I write to you to speak of your vision of Hell. You describe it in awesome, and often gruesome, detail, but there are a few things that contradict my own vision and beliefs. First, I have grown up in the church, so have been taught all my life that all sins, whether big or small, h...

Epic ConventionsAccording to Webster's Dictionary, an epic is "a narrative poem of some length telling of heroic deeds or events." While this is an accurate definition, there are also several other characteristics that tie them together as a literary format. Virtually all epics demonstrate an invo...

I have always enjoyed movies. But at some point I started to think of movies as more than just entertainment. I began to view them as a movie critic would, rather than just a casual viewer. Because of this perspective, I think of "Apocalypse Now" as one of the best American made movies I have ever s...

Aligheiri Dante's "Inferno" is the first of three books in Dante's classical work "The Divine Comedy." The "Inferno" pursues Dante's journey through Hell on his path to discovering God. He begins at the bottom Hell in sin, and must fight his way to the top through a variety of adventures...

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Divine Retribution ( in Italian contrapasso) is clearly shown in canto 28 by showing the punishment of the sowers of schism and scandal in the 9th bolgia of circle 8. To begin this canto, Dante talks of the many wars in Puglia (southeastern Italy) and across the peninsula which have been known as t...

St.Augustine in the Inferno It is hard to place St. Augustine within just one of the levels of Dante's hell for his sins were varied and not great. Today many of his sins are commonplace. For example, most people attempt to better their own lives without regard of others. They attempt to increase th...

FREEDOMIn "Paradiso", Dante is led by his guide Beatrice, and ascends through the heavenly spheres of Heaven, where he is granted a vision of God's heavenly court. In each sphere, Dante meets many souls who have been rewarded for their cardinal virtues, such as prudence, fortitude, justice, and temp...