Dante's Inferno

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is on a journey through hell in which he sees the different versions of sins and what consequences come after the immoralities. The person who commits a sin usually has to suffer in some way that would show revenge for the law of God. Dante threatens the people and tells them that they basically have nothing to look forward to except for having to suffer being separated from the will of God. Since these works were written by Dante, he had the power to judge others and decide how they will be punished for their sins. These visions that he had could very well be all false prophecies and may not be believed by every person. One thing that Dante did was to give enlightenment to sins that people did not know and made people

The Inferno is a book that has grabbed a large ,and ever growing, audience for centuries. The book challenged 14th century catholicism and continues to challenge modern day theology. Tackling topics that are usually considered to sensitive to touch, Dante gives us a book filled with dark and light, a physiological adventure and a physical one, religious and historical controversy, a story that everyone can relate to in a strange and different way. Every person who reads this book walks away having complete their own spiritual journey and going on to challenge what they think and fight for what they believe, just as Dante did when he wrote this book. The story of Dante's life makes it seem as though he was born to challenge political and religious ideas.

The political turmoil became further drawn out between opposition for the empire to have power or whether the power should be held by the papacy. According to Dante and Thomas Aquinas, a philosopher and Franciscan during Dante’s time, they both agree that the church’s role did not require the amount of power they were trying to acquire. However, a lot of that changed when Pope Celestine V abandoned his duties of the papacy which gave rise to Dante’s biggest enemy, Pope Boniface VIII. Unlike Aquinas, for Dante the biggest things were the effect on the community and the infiltration of trust which most of his characters in the Inferno are guilty of. However the infiltration within the church is much too widespread and personally affected Dante; in turn in his poem he has placed them in different levels of hell to make them wish they can repent what they did on earth, as the inferno is a journey reflection of the

Dante’s version of hell is based on that of Medieval Catholicism, which professes to be quite divergent from the Buddhist faith. Yet the similarities are actually quite

Dante showed some bias believes, throughout Dante’s Inferno, Dante does this because he seems to make the Inferno work to his advantage in a way. The punishment of people in hell seemed to be very strange, because some of them are easier than others, and some don’t seem fair. Dante’s Inferno is filled with injustice, Bias believes, and The punishment of people in hell. The injustice of Dante’s Inferno is shown throughout the book, but most of it can be found in Limbo.

Dante's Inferno shows a vast variety of different religious implications within the story. Showing as the most obvious is Christianity. Dante is a major Italian poet, hence the idea that Inferno is Italian for hell, and this epic poem is one that tells the journey of Dante through hell. While on his journey he is being guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Dante Alighieri’s epic poem the Divine comedy was written in the 14th century. Specifically, he completed the epic in 1308, and during this time period roman Catholicism was at its peak of popularity in Rome. Dante is known as a strong believer in Catholicism, however he believed that the pope at the time, Pope Boniface VIII, was an arrogant and power crazed ruler. (Thompsett) Dante’s personal views of church was that it was too involved in government and political affairs. He believed in the separation of church and state. This meaning that the state should not be dictated by the church, and the church should not be dictated by the state. And Boniface's ruling as Pope did not quite follow Dante's beliefs. Christianity was the overlooking religion of the epic poem as that was Dante's religion, but many other religions played their own parts. Some being Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism and Zoroastrianism. (Burky)

Dante writes on hell and one can come to a conclusion that while he was writing this book, he grew closer to God. As professor Long stated during the plenary panel, one can use literature as a source to grow closer to God and their intelligence being sharpened. Throughout The Inferno, Dante comes across all the souls that are scattered around hell; mostly because their reason took hold of them insofar their knowledge was limited. Although their knowledge was limited, professor Lamkin would put it, do not let reason overwhelm you. For if you do, some things may never be accomplished.

Often when we set out to journey in ourselves, we come to places that surprise us with their strangeness. Expecting to see what is straightforward and acceptable, we suddenly run across the exceptions. Just as we as self‹examiners might encounter our inner demons, so does Dante the writer as he sets out to walk through his Inferno. Dante explains his universe - in terms physical, political, and spiritual - in the Divine Comedy. He also gives his readers a glimpse into his own perception of what constitutes sin. By portraying characters in specific ways, Dante the writer can shape what Dante the pilgrim feels about each sinner. Also, the reader can look deeper in the text and examine the

Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet and writer of the 13th century, creates a fictional account of his visions of his journey through Hell. His background as a Catholic influences his life and his writings, including The Inferno. He uses the historical and political events of his lifetime to influence his writings as well. Dante is educated and very familiar with the history and literature of the classical world. In The Inferno, he expresses his admiration for Greco-Roman history, literature, mythology, and philosophy, but he also places limitations on the ability of the classical world to gain salvation as taught and believed in Christian doctrine.

how can Dante's work be depicted into different aspects of religions? The best way to understand the words of Dante is to relate religions to the text, by researching backgrounds of three diverse religions, analyzing the different aspects throughout Dante; we then can correlate his works with a deeper religious sense.

Dante explains, “If I had words grating and crude enough that really could describe this horrid hole supporting the converging weight of Hell, I could squeeze out the juice of my memories to the last drop. But I don’t have these words, and so I am reluctant to begin.” On his journey, Dante states that he does not have the words to explain Dante believes that an individual has to see the circles of hell to understand it’s make up and importance. This is crucial to individualism because Dante believes that every person should have the chance to see the circles and form an opinion about hell based off of their own findings, not from what they hear from another individual. Dante understands that individuals should have their own intellectual development, their own thought process of thinking, learning, and questioning, by creating one’s own interpretations Dante questions his ‘master’ Virgil during the journey, which proves that authority figures, role models, or people of a higher status should not dictate how one lives their life.

Around 1314, Dante Alighieri completed the Inferno, the first section of what would make up The Divine Comedy, a collection of three poems reflecting Dante’s imaginative journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. In these poems, Dante the poet describes the pilgrimage that Dante the pilgrim must complete to attain salvation. With the Roman poet Virgil as his guide, Dante the pilgrim must purge himself of his own sinful nature, which can only be achieved by observing and learning from those that have landed themselves in either Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven. Described in Inferno, his excursion begins in Hell where Dante learns about the stories and the sufferings of many sinners. As Dante the pilgrim progresses through Hell it is clear that he assumes different personas. In some instances, Dante the pilgrim is portrayed as an empathetic man who pities the sinners while on other occasions, Dante the pilgrim is portrayed as a callous and indignant being in regard to the sinners. While Dante the pilgrim is depicted in these two completely different ways, it is the insensitive portrayal that more precisely depicts Dante the pilgrim, as that is his true identity when he leaves Hell. His journey affected him so greatly that by the end of his pilgrimage, Dante the pilgrim has transformed from a compassionate man into an impervious and even cruel individual.

In the Inferno, written by Dante Alghieri, it shows Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell. In each of the circles of hell, there is a sin that is committed and people get punished for what they have done wrong. Although society’s views on people’s actions today are much different on how it was back then, some ideas still remain the same. Society has changed the way it views how people express

Imagine a place where tyrants stand up to their ears in boiling blood, the gluttonous experience monsoons of human filth, and those who commit sins of the flesh are blown about like pieces of paper in a never-ending wind storm. Welcome to Dante 's Inferno, his perspective on the appropriate punishments for those who are destined to hell for all eternity. Dante attempts to make the punishments fit the crimes, but because it is Dante dealing out the tortures and not God, the punishments will never be perfect because by nature, man is an imperfect creature. Only God is capable of being above reproach and of metering out a just punishment. While Dante 's treatment towards the tyrants is fitting, his views on the

“The Inferno of Dante Alighieri” translated by Ciaran Carson, originally written by Dante himself is a classical piece of literature. It is the first part of Dante’s three part epic poem entitled, “The Divine Comedy”. “The Inferno of Dante Alighieri” transports the reader into a gradual ride, going from an familiar and earthly land, to descending the depths of Hell in the search of salvation. The imagery conjured up while reading this book is plentiful as Dante’s writing is impeccable. Naturally, with such narrative content, later artists would look at this great work and become inspired themselves. A work I would like to discuss is one by the Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli entitled, “Dante and Beatrice in the Stars”. With support of “Reading Dante’s Stars” a work by Alison Cornish, I feel that the stars as a motif not in the Inferno played a significant role in establishing the setting and the ego of the self. I feel like this Botticelli’s work alters the meaning of Dante by giving us a visual mechanism to help us understand Dante’s experience in this world, which is dictated by the decisions made of these individuals that are based upon the perversions of love or manifestations of God’s love.