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. ... This love that is shown is improper and shouldn't be used as it is represented in "The Inferno" and instead tries to con...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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....

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Dante's Inferno, is an allegorical poem telling the story of Dante's journey through hell, led by Virgil the Roman poet. ... The Inferno envelops the familiar conflict of good and evil or heaven and hell. ... Contrapasso in regard to Dante's Inferno, has two meanings. ... The Inferno can be viewed in many different ways. ... Regardless, the allegories are a fundamental part of the Inferno. ...

• Word Count: 1352
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. As it says, sin has "harassed [his] heart with so much fear" (Inferno 1837). ... In Inferno, Virgil, a personification of Dante's human reason, shows him that he needs to escape the sinful lifestyle he is in. ... Inferno. ...

• Word Count: 833
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1583
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2364
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... The Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno is a deep look at hell through the eyes of an Italian Christian based on his knowledge of doctrine. ...

• Word Count: 660
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 the Poet created this hell, so he is stern and moralistic towards the ...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. One example of a contrapasso is in canto thirteen, where sinners who commit suicide are in a form of a tree watching their bodies h...

• Word Count: 1339
• Approx Pages: 5

Define Horror In The Devine Comedy Horror is an ancient genre, who's roots are lodged in ancient myth and folklore. Horror can be defined in many different ways. It is described as a feeling of intense fear, dislike, and pain. Dante's "The Divine Comedy", can be described as containing images...

• Word Count: 460
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The punishments of the dammed in The Inferno have a special meaning, because they explain in the form of an allegory how the sinners had to suffer for the faults they committed in their lives. ... We presented three types of contrapasso, the violence against oneself, the fortune tellers, and the hypocrites, which are some of the most relevant kinds of retribution that what we find throughout The Inferno. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Dante and Virgil are chased by demons into the sixth pouch of the eighth circle of hell that consists of hypocrisy. A hypocrite is someone who pretends to possess virtues, morals, or religious beliefs but in reality do not have them. Punishment for these sinners is to where cloaks that look beautiful on the outside but are lined with lead on the inside. This punishment matches the sinners because they get a taste of their own medicine and have to live in hell crawling around. The eighth circles of hell, Malebolge, consist of sinners that involve conscious fraud. ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School