This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. ... This escape from reality into the unconscious is present in The Inferno as well. The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, through hell. ... Virgil relates to both The Inferno, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ...

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This obstacle is similar to a situation in another work, Dante's Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. ... Beatrice dies prematurely at the young age of twenty-five, and this inspires Alighieri to write Inferno. ... This escape from reality into the unconscious is present in The Inferno as well. The Inferno is a three-day trip into the unconscious, through hell. ... Virgil relates to both The Inferno, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ...

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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. ...

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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. ... The nine circles conveyed in the Inferno ar...

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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. ...

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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. 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...

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