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. As the story progresses, however, the character becomes less and less inclined toward pity, and repeated comments by Virgil encourage this transition. ... Frightened, Dante returns to the forest. ... Beatrice being Dante's love. ...

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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. ... We learn that God is not tempting us so he can find out our character and find something hidden within us, but so that we will find out what is hidden within us and realize our own character. ... 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 ki...

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Dante was born into a Guelf family. ... Dante's dream was to return to Florence. ... It is divided into three sections, named the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). ... Each character is symbolic of a particular fault or virtue. ... Then after Dante traveled with him, Dante would meet up with another guide who would take him to paradise. ...

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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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