One of the main themes in Dante's Inferno is the symbolic punishment that Dante shows to the individuals he comes in contact with during his plight in Hell. Throughout the Inferno, Dante uses symbols to evoke "the will of God.... Dante's Inferno is jam-packed with symbolism. Each canto and stanza of the Inferno possesses an alternative meaning. ... " My question is based upon societies current perspective on the idea of an "eye for an eye" being inhumane, and how would Dante's Inferno be looked upon presently....

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Dante's Inferno Dante's Inferno is one of the three parts of his Divine Comedy. The Inferno is divided into thirty-four cantos, each containing a description of a specific region of hell. ... In Canto 18, Dante and Virgil travel into the First and Second Pouch of the eighth circle of hell, also called Malebolge. ... Here, Dante talked with a man and his friend who were friars of a Catholic military order called Jovial Friars. ... Dante believes that in hell, we will suffer in the way we made others suffer. ...

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In "The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno," Dante often uses love and romance as a theme to convey his message of Hell in The Inferno. The Inferno is epic that is about a telling of Dante through his Journey throughout Hell while being guided by Virgil. ... Love plays a important aspect in "The Inferno" because without it, Dante wouldn't have been able to complete his journey without his guide who was sent by Beatrice. ... In "The Inferno," Lust is the second circle of Hell which Dante encounters and it has people being punished by being blown back an...

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Dante's Inferno, is an allegorical poem telling the story of Dante's journey through hell, led by Virgil the Roman poet. ... Throughout the Inferno, Dante explores allegory in the punishments enforced upon the sinners is followed through out all nine circles of hell. ... Contrapasso in regard to Dante's Inferno, has two meanings. ... Dante's use of allegory in The Inferno is the most important tool that he had to accomplish his goal of deterring others, and himself, from sin. ... The Inferno can be viewed in many different ways. ...

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In particular, Virgil's Aeneid was the most influential in my reading of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. During the course of reading Dante's Inferno, I quickly began to notice similarities and parallels with Virgil's Aeneid. ... The narrator in Inferno (Dante) recounts on his fearful journey through hell in search of salvation (Heaven). By realizing the significance of epic poetry in Aeneid, I was able to better understand the purpose of Dante's journey in Inferno. ... In the poem Inferno, the spirit refers to Dante's departed wife, Beatrice whom is in heaven. ...

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Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. ... Dante's Inferno enables man to understand that the punishment of the soul is retributive justice assigned by God. ... Now that the pilgrim has investigated all sin and knows the foundation of all sin, Dante us spiritually prepared to welcome the hope of salvation Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell. ... Dante's Inferno enables man to understand that the punishment of the soul is retributive justice assigned by God. ... Now...

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Dante's use of allegory in the Inferno greatly varies from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in purpose, symbolism, characters and mentors, and in attitude toward the world. ... Dante's Inferno describes the descent through Hell from the upper level of the opportunists to the most evil, the treacherous, on the lowest level. ... Dante's Inferno is a detailed description of sin and its relationship to degrees of punishment. ... In contrast, there are numerous characters in the Inferno. ... In Dante's Inferno, Dante specifically criticizes believers of Judaism and Islam. ...

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Greg Young The Inferno of Dante A.P. English August 26, 2003 In the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. ... Frightened, Dante returns to the forest. ... Beatrice being Dante's love. ... Dante reaches the walls of the City of Dis. ...

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Dante vs. Everyman Dante's Inferno and Everyman clearly have certain similarities and certain differences in their main characters and themes. ... In Inferno, Dante suddenly wakes up in the dark woods and knows he must get out of them. ... In Inferno, Virgil, a personification of Dante's human reason, shows him that he needs to escape the sinful lifestyle he is in. ... Inferno. ...

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The Inferno Dante's opinion of sin and sinners changes as the book Dante's Inferno moves forward because this is Dante's way to come to terms with God. ... Although he has sorrow for persons in the early circles, his resentment and bitterness starts to prevail as he goes deep in to the Inferno. Dante made it so the worst crimes were ones that had personally affected him in his life. ... This is the closing statement of the Inferno. ... Dante's change throughout his journey through the Inferno is clearly shown by his sorrow for the two lovers, then his disgust and rejec...

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Dante's Inferno is a classic story and the movie What Dreams May Come is a movie that somewhat depicts the book. Dante's Inferno is one part of a trilogy of Dante's story telling how he was taken to heaven. ... Like the Inferno, What Dreams May Come portrays hell as a place not of fire but of solitude were all you can think about is what you did to get there. For example in Inferno, Archbishop Ruggieri has to feed Count Uglino for all eternity, who he starved to death in the tower of hunger. ...

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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri portrays a frighteningly vivid vision of the Christian hell using poetic prose. ... There are other reasons for Dante's writing of the Inferno. ... Sister Mary Rose Gertrude describes Dante's use of revelations and honesty that underlie the inferno. ... (196) This is how Dante justified his writing the Inferno. ... This exert from the Inferno portrays Dante's manner of mixing universal justice with his own hatred. ...

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Dante's Inferno Annotation The beginning of Canto nine begins at the point in the story right after Virgil and Dante were denied further passage through hell (passage into the city of Dis, to be more specific). ... Because Dante saw that his Guide, one who he had placed all his confidence in, was actually trying to hide his uneasiness from Dante, Dante started to feel great anxiety and internal conflict. ... The danger of this situation is enhanced with line 48, when Dante draws close to Virgil and again in lines 55-57 when Virgil has to shield Dante from MEDUSA. ... Because of this...

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Dante Alighieri wrote a major work known as the Commedia that consisted of three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. ... In the Inferno, Dante learns that God's punishment is just, God's power is divine, and God's reign is eternal. ... The deeper Dante and Virgil go into Hell, the worse the sins are. ... In every level of hell Dante asks the sinners to tell them their story so Dante can tell their story to the people who are still alive. ... God's just punishment, divine power, and never-ending reign are major things Dante learns while he is in the Inferno because ...

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In "Dante's Inferno," Dante the Pilgrim goes through some important changes as he progresses further through the Inferno. It is important to view Dante the Pilgrim and Dante the Poet as two distinct and separate characters. ... Dante's reaction toward Francesca in comparison to the shade Bocca, best shows how drastically Dante's attitude towards the damned changes. ... As the poem progresses we see Dante the Pilgrim and Dante the Poet becoming more and more similar. ... Dante's story represents not only his own life but also what Dante the Poet alleged to be the common Chr...

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One specific group that is particularly apt for analysis is who were treacherous to kin, located in the first layer of circle nine in the Inferno. ... Another explanation for Dante the poet's harsh judgment toward those who betrayed their families is that the politics of Dante's time were heavily rooted in bloodlines. ... Ciardi comments on this in his notes in "The Inferno," mentioning that that the two Alberti brothers were constantly feuding because Alessandro was a Guelph and Napoleoni was a Ghibelline. ... It is in the outermost layer of Cocytus that Dante and Ugolino first me...

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In Dante's Inferno, Virgil delineates that, there are "three dispositions that Heaven refuses, Incontinence, malice, and mad bestiality " (Inferno, Canto XI, 80). ... Vices in the inferno thus concur with Aristotle's Ethical framework insofar as vice, as posited by Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, is characterized similarly by immoderacy and incontinence. ... Indeed, it seems Aristotelian morality is the very source out of which conceptions of sin in the Inferno are constructed. ... The structure of Dante's Inferno narrowly accords with Aristotle's Ethical framework. ....

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In Dante's Inferno, God punishes sinners in a unique way so that the crimes they commit on earth reflect the punishment they face while in Hell; which is a contrapasso. ... While Dante is in circle seven, Virgil tells him to, "break off a twig among these brambles"(241) and Dante listens to what he says and after he does this the "stem cried out 'Why do you break me? ... That is how Dante and Virgil get to meet a guy whose name is Pier Delle Vigne. ... When Dante and Pier Vigne are talking, Dante learns a lot about the punishment of those who commit suicide. ... Also...

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Dante uses the reflection of his image of "Inferno" of his Christianity, to prove the dictations of the Church using religious and substantial reality effects that can divert ordinary people to the way of Church. ... As a strong defender of these ideas, Dante creates Inferno where is filled with the sinners according to Church. ... Throughout Inferno, there is a quotation of Hz. ... (Dante, Inferno, Canto XXVIII, p.21) Besides this religious-reality effect, Dante provides a strong effect using a substance that existed in the same time interval. ... First of all, Dante's Inferno was a to...

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The first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy, also known as Inferno, tells about the spiritual pilgrimage of Dante from Hell to Purgatory (Fiero 148). ... As a matter of fact, the Inferno serves as criticism of his Italian contemporaries, some from history and legend from his era, marred by the severity of their sin (Sayre 441). Alighieri opted to write Inferno as vernacular literature in order to address and apply its message of conflicting moralities to a wider audience, of and from medieval Italy, and to the world today. ... " Even in hell, Dante and Latini show ...

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Tracing Motif in Inferno Political Story The world of Dante, in which sins are punished in Inferno, has a direct connection to Dante's views as to who is responsible for the political status of Italy. ... Dante believed that politicians were the general decision makers. ... Ciacco's prophecy is the first of many reoccurring prophecies in Inferno. ... By use of allegory, Dante revealed Inferno as a political commentary as it is an interpretation on morals and way of life. Dante realized he not only had to expose his own sins and wrongdoings, but expose and redeem his society whi...

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Dante claimed not to be the appropriate person for the journey. ... For this reason, the inferno is based mostly on social and political traditions of the time that are in conflict with religious beliefs. ... Dante's Inferno above all reflects the thoughts of the author and the social, as well as the political beliefs and structure at the time in Florence, Italy. ... What Dante saw was so painful that he can't even handle it. ... The splitting of the men fits into the pattern of the rest of the punishments in the inferno. ...

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In Dante's, Inferno,. Looking at the "poetic justice" of the inferno the reader has to think why are some serious sins today like murder less punishable than less serious sins like fraud. ... As Dante and Virgil move on quickly they come across the river Styx. ... Dante Cross's another river, the Phlegethon a river of boiling blood. ... The "poetic justice" that Dante portrays is a little confusing and ironic. ...

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Augustine's Confessions and Dante Alighieri's Inferno are both stories about lost men on a journey to find salvation and God's grace in heaven. ... In Inferno, Dante goes through many battles while facing sin and temptation as he goes through the three divisions of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso. The inferno is Dante's idea of what hell would be like and it represents all the kinds of temptation man goes through in order to find salvation. ... Dante's Inferno is also full of allegory and is all-together a learning process of Dante's life. ... Beatrice in heaven ...

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This is a question that people will have answered in Dante's Inferno. ... Many of Dante's ideas about the inferno make the reader think about their everyday actions. ... Dante also goes onto describe the ugliness of Lucifer. ... When Virgil and Dante are leaving this circle to ascend out of hell, Dante creatively describes where hell is located. To get through the ice Virgil and Dante go down Lucifer's back. ...

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