The Divine Comedy : An Analysis Of The Divine Comedy

In the poem, The Divine Comedy, Dante (the author) demonstrates the basic stages of the Monomyth while making his way through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. His writing mirrors each stage which includes the departure or separation, The initiation or challenge, and the return. In stage one, the hero finds himself in an unusual world of adventure (not the “real world”). His journey involves assistance from many which helps him cross the threshold into the imaginative world. Stage two continues with the hero successfully meeting and defeating several challenges and roadblocks in his way. The last Monomyth stage contributes to the hero completing his journey successfully and finding his way back to the mundane world. This paper will demonstrate and define Dante’s journey to adventure, crisis, and victory using the three stages of the Monomyth in the poem.

     Dante's Inferno, itself one piece of a literary trilogy, repeatedly deploys the leitmotif of the number three as a metaphor for ambiguity, compromise, and transition. A work in terza rima that details a descent through Nine Circles of Hell, The Inferno encompasses temporal, literary, and political bridges and chasms that link Dante's inspired Centaur work between the autobiographical and the fictive, the mundane and the divine and, from a contemporary viewpoint, the Medieval and the Modern‹Dante's recognition of the Renaissance as our millennium's metamorphic period and of himself as its poetic forerunner (until deposition by Shakespeare).

In the Divine Comedy, Dante is lost in the dark woods at the bottom of mount Delectable. This place fills him with great fear so he looks for a way out. In an attempt to leave this fearsome place Dante tries to climb the mountain but because he is unworthy he is blocked by a leopard, lion, and a she wolf. The mountain represents heaven and he is block by three animals that represent deferent sins, a leopard which stands for fraud, a lion that stand for violence, and a she wolf that stands for lust. Then he runs into Virgil who was sent by Beatrice, the women he loved that died years earlier. Beatrice sent Virgil to help guide Dante to heaven to see her and to become worthy of God and Heaven. Dante had the option to either go see Beatrice and become worthy but would have to go through hell to do so, or he can stay in the woods without Beatrice and be unworthy of heaven.

Jeovan Medina Professor Ohayon 04/14/15 Dante’s Inferno Literary poems and essays started booming during the twelfth centaury. From these great works we have Dante’s Divine comedy. In Dante’s comedy we have three parts that elaborate his journey through The Inferno, Pulgatorio, and lastly Paraiso. Dante’s portrayal of Hell in the Inferno is an undisputed masterpiece of visual and allegorical imagery, enriched not only by extensive use of figurative language, but by concrete physical descriptions as well. With his vivid and extensive imagery we will see Dante draws themes from biblical allusions, history sources, and classical.

Domenico di Michelino (1417-1491), an Italian painter and medieval poet was known best for his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which includes sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: Purgatory (Purgatorio), Hell (Inferno), and Paradise (Paradiso). This poem was a great work of medieval literature and was considered the greatest work of literature composed in Italian. The Divine Comedy was a Christian vision of mankind’s eternal fate. When The Divine Comedy was written, Dante made a cathedral painting that represents his poem called Dante and His Poem. In the painting, the Dante shows the 3 tiers related to the Christian afterlife. Dante was standing in a red robed colossus, revealing his poem to the city of Florence. The painting was full of great meaning, inspiring so many artists from Rodin to Robert Rauschenberg.

For The Divine Comedy, women act as both the initial force of inspiration and the final goal of the epic adventure — seen in Dante’s celebration of both Beatrice and the Virgin Mary (Paolucci, 140). The book opens with Dante pilgrim in a state of confusion, only to be instructed on the right path by Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri’s love interest who has now come to life in The Inferno to act as motivator for his journey. It can

Foscolo, Rossetti and Valli demonstrated that the different critical exegetical positions, regarding the Divine Comedy (whose intent appears on one side as a disciplinary and moral renewal of the Church, and on the other side as a hidden, heretical reversion) were not free from contemporary pressures. In fact, their own theories are able to offer a valid evidence of the nineteenth century's political and religious debates, and for this reason, I am going to analyse the interpretation of Dante's work by Ugo Foscolo, through both, the 'Discorso sul testo della Divina Commedia', and two articles that Foscolo published in the Edinburgh Review' in 1818; in addition, I am going to analyse the interpretation by Rossetti through his work titled

C. His writing style not only consisted of some literature firsts, but also his ability to make the reader feel present in the story

The theme of equilibrium between reason and faith is one of the core messages of Inferno and it is essential in conveying the main idea of the Divine Comedy and of the pilgrim’s journey that the exploitation of intellect and the misuse of will is the cause of sin, and that through faith, those who are morally lost find their salvation in God. In Inferno Dante makes it clear that he greatly values knowledge and reason in a way that is more characteristic to the Renaissance rather than of his own Medieval time. However, throughout this first book, the author reminds the audience of the Christian nature of his poem as he uses the stories of the sinners he encounters to stress the idea that without faith, the intellect is not sufficient to achieve divine salvation and that the misuse of reason can often lead to terrible sins.

The beginning lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri indicate a pragmatic journey through the dark woods. It is soon evident that The Divine Comedy is in terms of an allegory. Midway through his life, Dante finds himself lost and in darkness. He is confused and unaware of how he has ended up in these dark woods. Dante soon comes across Italian poet Virgil, who will guide him through the Nine Circles of Hell. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy: Inferno portrays Dante’s life and adventure through Hell which allegorically represents a much broader subject: man’s journey through life to salvation.

At the same time, however, the religious function of Dante’s poem must not be neglected. In the opening lines of The Inferno, Dante embarks on a journey and finds himself “in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost” (Inferno, I, 2-3). Dante’s description of the dark wood indicates the lack of God’s light, and thus informs readers of the life he lived in the condition of sin. These opening lines establish the religious context for the poem, as Dante has deviated from “the straight way”, the way to God. Furthermore, Lee H. Yearley contributes to this religious perspective by

    Some people think that the medieval churches view on sin, redemption, heaven and hell was very complex, but actually the churches views were straight and to the point. I will discuss with you what sin, redemption, heaven and hell were to the medieval churches and I will also share some examples in the story that will help you better understand The Inferno and the medieval churches views.

Dante's `Divine Comedy', the account of his journey through hell, purgatory and heaven is one of the worlds great poems, and a prime example of a most splendidly realized integration of life with art. More than being merely great poetry, or a chronicle of contemporary events, which it also is, the `Comedy' is a study of human nature by a man quite experienced with it. The main argument I will make in this essay is that Dante's `Comedy' is chiefly a work of historical significance because in it lies the essence of human life across all boundaries of time and place. I feel that such a reading is justified, nay invited, by Dante himself when he says;

The Divine Comedy is considered the greatest work of Dante. The author worked on it for many years and inserted all his internal and external experience in it. He called this poem a comedy meaning its middle style and a happy ending. The Divine Comedy is written in the genre of vision which was highly popular in medieval literature. In this genre, authors described people walking through torments. Dante modified greatly this genre, adding the whole universe to the abyss of Hell. Moreover, he goes personally through all the circles of the otherworldly place where he to his surprise comprehends such entities as truth, love, and beauty. The Divine Comedy is infused with the theme of love, which is especially noticeable when Dante enters Heaven and meets his beloved.

The Divine Comedy is an epic about Dante’s journey through the three hells. It begins with Dante lost in a forest with monsters chasing after him. Virgil’s spirit, an influential Roman poet, appears and guides Dante out of the forest and through the gates of the Inferno (Alighieri). The Divine Comedy is made up of three parts: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradise. Critics say that the Inferno is the most compelling and brings about