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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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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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 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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In the epic "Dante's Inferno," " by Dante Alighieri, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Dante Alighieri's epic confronts the reader and audience with a sense of violence, portrayed like no other. ... Dante is accompanied by the famous poet Virgil on his journey through the underworld to heaven. ... Dante is exposed to this savage nature throughout all of the circles. ... In the epic Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. ...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to frighten him into abandoning his errant ways. ... The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, t...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Inferno is a story about Dante's a brief period in his life when he lost sight of his moral principles, and turns to his faith in order to get him back on the correct path. ... Education becomes the primary element in all aspects of Stephen's life, and it helps guide him, as does Virgil in Dante's Inferno. ... In The Inferno, Virgil guides Dante through hell in order to frighten him into abandoning his errant ways. ... The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, t...

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Dante wrote the romantic affair story between Francesca and Paolo in "The Inferno" in Canto V and how the power of love led them to be punished together for adultery.  Coming into the second circle of Hell, Dante encounters Minos who is the judge of the damned sinners; he tells the souls where to go as they arrive. ... Dante asks Francesca to tell him her story, as she tells her story he feels sympathy for her, he was moved, and his response was emotional.  ... Dante is moved by the unfairness Francesca has to go through. ... Dante's response to this unfair story ending was em...

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Inferno (Italian for "hell"), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." ... It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. ... Allegorically, "Divine Comedy"  represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. ... Virgil then guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. ... Allegorically, the Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is. ...

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Dante's "The Divine Comedy", can be described as containing images and thoughts horror. ... Dante puts the violence at grotesque level with examples of bloodshed which that can only justify the horror in Dante's "The Divine Comedy". The splitting of the men fits into the pattern of the punishments in the inferno. ... As Dante watches the man who has just been split into two, the man looks back at Dante. ... Dante's "The Divine Comedy" was an extremely successful horror story. ...

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This essay will focus on comparing the Greek and Roman views of hell to Dante's medieval version. ... This phrase appears: "Through Dis's homes all void, and empty realms- which is interesting because in Dante's Inferno, the deepest parts of hell is called a city named Dis. ... It is also fascinating to see "the swamp of Styx" mentioned and described in The Aeneid, a hellish place obviously adopted by Dante thirteen hundred years later. ... The Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno is a deep look at hell through the eyes of an Italian Christian based on his knowledge of doctrin...

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The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. The Inferno is Dante's journey through the rings of Hell in his search for enlightenment. ... In the Inferno, Dante travels further and further down through the rings of hell on his way up to the heavens. ... Finally, just as Dante does eventually escape the Inferno, so does Prufrock and his unknown companion as they drown in what it was that consumed him "human voices." ... The first and last ten lines seem to be the strongest references to Dante's Inferno, which make th...

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Dante and Virgil are chased by demons into the sixth pouch of the eighth circle of hell that consists of hypocrisy. ... Dante has a personal encounter with two people, Catalano and Loderingo. ... Dante sees Caiaphas as "one crucified with three stakes on the ground. ... As Dante moves down the circles of hell, he changes greatly. ... The lower Dante and Virgil go in Hell reveal more serious sins. ...

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The epigraph of the poem is a passage from Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno. The Inferno is Dante's journey through the rings of Hell in his search for enlightenment. ... In the Inferno, Dante travels further and further down through the rings of hell on his way up to the heavens. ... Finally, just as Dante does eventually escape the Inferno, so does Prufrock and his unknown companion as they drown in what it was that consumed him "human voices." ... The first and last ten lines seem to be the strongest references to Dante's Inferno, which make th...

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Dante was born into a Guelf family. ... Dante's dream was to return to Florence. ... Dante was no longer a citizen of any place. ... It is divided into three sections, named the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). ... Then after Dante traveled with him, Dante would meet up with another guide who would take him to paradise. ...

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Hawthorne writes, "One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno- The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes the souls in Hell. ...

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Suspiria does not have a central theme or strong story line, but in some ways, the amount of gory detail in the death scenes, the ways in which the characters are murdered and the evilness of the "monsters " in this film parallel characters and scenes from Dante Alighieri's Inferno. ... Each person that is murdered in the movie dies in an excruciating way, similar to the way the souls are tortured in the Inferno. ... Although her gruesome, torturous murder does not tie specifically to a circle in Dante's Inferno, her swaying dead body reminds me of the tortured souls in the second ci...

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