Human Rejection In Dante And Dante's Inferno

Often, we cannot see the good until we have experienced the bad. Dante Alighieri, a poet who makes himself the main character in his Divine Comedy, finds himself lost in a dark wood at the start of The Inferno. Though he sees a safe path out of the wood towards an alluring light, he is forced to take an alternate route through an even darker place. As the ending of the pilgrim Dante’s voyage is bright and hopeful, Alighieri the poet aims to encourage even the most sinful Christians to hope for a successful end. Thus, Dante the pilgrim goes to hell in The Inferno to better understand the nature of sin and its consequences in order to move closer to salvation; his journey an allegory representing that of the repenting Christian soul.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein tells the tale of a man whose entire life turns to misery after creating what he calls a monster, a demon and a fiend. However, the real monster in this story is pride and the feeling of superiority. This is evident in the novel with Robert Walton’s view of himself and his expedition, Victor Frankenstein’s attitude towards himself in comparison with the creature, and mankind’s perception of the creature and their ignorance towards him.

   Frankenstein can be read as a tale of what happens when a man tries to create a child without a woman. It can, however, also be read as an account of a woman's anxieties and insecurities about her own creative and reproductive capabilities. The story of Frankenstein is the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears. Mary Shelley, in the development and education of the monster, discusses child development and education and how the nurturing of a loving parent is extremely important in the moral development of an individual. Thus, in Frankenstein, Mary Shelley examines her own fears and thoughts about pregnancy, childbirth, and child development.

   Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, sheds light on the importance of appearance through the tale of an unwanted creation that is never given a chance by society. Ironically, the supposed beast was initially much more compassionate and thoughtful than his creator, until his romantic and innocent view of the human race was diminished by the cruelty and injustice he unduly bore. Not only does the creature suffer the prejudice of an appearance-based society, but other situations and characters in the novel force the reader to reflect their own hasty judgment. The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation,

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

What goes around comes around. When sinners reach hell they are forced to experience the counter-suffering of contrapasso. For each sin, Dante gives a specific punishment relating to that sin. Some of these sins include violence towards self, violence towards God, sorcery, and hypocrisy. For the despicable lives they lived on earth, they are doomed to suffer relating consequences for all of eternity.

Rejection is a hard thing to overcome. Rejection and abandonment can happen to newborn babies, children, and adults. Some babies are abandoned due to birth defects; children and adults are bullied and rejected because of the clothes they wear, their hair, face, ethnicity, and body. Some of this rejection can go too far, and can cause the one being bullied to become suicidal, or even homicidal. The theme of rejection is apparent in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Isolation and abandonment happen to each of the main characters; Victor Frankenstein, the creature, and Robert Walton.

Rejection is the dismissing or refusing of a person or idea. There are many examples of rejection in current events, wildlife, novels, and everyday life. For example in the book the metamorphosis, the antagonist, Gregor mysteriously turns into a roach overnight. Because of this, he utterly disgusts his family and can no longer provide for them either, so ultimately, they turn their backs abandon Gregor. People decide to reject something when it is no longer convenient to them, but why does this cruel abandonment happen?

People often harshly judge the physical appearance of people. Acceptance and rejection is not only perceived in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly but also in the modern society. Specifically, people tend to get rejected and accepted very often in relationships; one person will deny the date of another person. Frankenstein not only demonstrated the power of social acceptance and rejection but also how these factors can shape an artificial human being. The creature, which Victor Frankenstein had created, encountered many hardships while trying to adapt into the new and foreign society.

Dante’s “Inferno” is a pandemonic story told through the eyes of Dante as he travels through the nine circles of hell with the spirit, Virgil. Dante, being a mortal, was sent to visit hell by God for he had “lost his way” through life; and Virgil, the spirit, was to be his guide. As Dante travels through the first section of hell and ends at the city of Dis, it becomes known that the journey is only beginning for Dante and his moral compass is in desperate need of this experience to place him back on the way of life. Dante faces many challenges through hell as he experiences immense fear, pity, sorrow, and guilt. These emotions are adamantly shown through his reactions to his environment and the way he handles the complications of each circle

Dante's character in The Inferno has come across many terrifying sights and creatures on his journey through Hell. Hell is filled with an abundance of sinners who have done wrong towards God, others, and natures cycle. The lost souls of Hell have no way of escaping their fate of being doomed to treacherous conditions for the rest of eternity. Once a person is sent inside the gates of Hell there is no escaping. The sins that are committed are matched up with a specific punishment that mirrors their wrong doing.

While traveling through Hell, Dante the pilgrim encountered numerous sinners on each level, all prepared to tell their tales of misfortune and transgression. However, though some ask Dante to remember them or tell their stories on Earth, most of them speak for their own gain, not simply to educate Dante on the penalties of their sins. Each sinner appears to wallow in the past, isolating themselves in their sin and occasionally ignoring Dante as a person entirely. Even when these sinners find themselves physically trapped together with another soul, they remain lonely and miserable in their suffering: they have deprived themselves of the forgiveness and love God offered them and now must find something else to love. As they have rejected God, these sinners still seek to fill that void of emptiness to which they have forever condemned themselves. In Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the irony of the sinner’s contrappaso reflects the irony that, even in the suffering they have brought upon themselves, they have a misplaced love in their sin in place of the love God offered them.

Dante’s inferno was much more than just a journey through hell. Readers were able to take this journey with him as well. Readers got a first hand account of how an average Catholic man from the 14 century experienced hell. This journey was meant to be a lesson learned for all every single reader; this was a wake up call for everyone. Dante’s Inferno accomplished something that no other author had ever done, and that’s portray hell. No living man has ever witnessed hell for himself, yet due to this poem they actually have. Dante did much more than just give an overview of hell, but he gave a full scripted map of what hell was actually like. There was tons of detail that went along with the poem which made this journey so great. Dante lived during

Religious people always fear that they will not make it to Heaven or the place their God resides. The bible and other religious text give advice on how to avoid the pain of Hell. Dante Alighieri, a famous Italian poet, wrote about the physical description of Hell and the punishments each sinner would receive for their sins. Although The Divine Comedy chronicles Dante's journey from the depths of Hell to the glory of Heaven it contains a deeper meaning. Dante reveals the true meaning of the Inferno through his leading motif, his interactions between the sinners, and the intertwining of other literary works into the Inferno.

The pain of rejection is a common feeling in the human experience. Feeling unwanted can have a powerful negative effect on one’s self perception. The clones in Never Let Me Go and the monster in Frankenstein both experience this. The pain from this ultimately ruins their self confidence and causes them to believe that they are inferior.