Vision L Enfer, Vision Du Chevalier, By Simon Marmion

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.

In Dante’s Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Canto V introduces the torments of Hell in the Second Circle. Here Minos tells the damned where they will spend eternity by wrapping his tail around himself. The Second Circle of Hell holds the lustful; those who sinned with the flesh. They are punished in the darkness by an unending tempest, which batters them with winds and rain. Hell is not only a geographical place, but also a representation of the potential for sin and evil within every individual human soul. As Dante travels through Hell, he sees sinners in increasingly more hideous and disgusting situations. For Dante, each situation is an image of the quality of any soul that is determined to sin in

Dante and Virgil have just left limbo, the first circle of hell, and are now on their way into the second circle of hell, where hell really begins. It is here that Dante first witnesses the punishment brought upon the sinners. They encounter Minos, the beast-judge who blocks the way into the second circle. He examines each soul as they pass through and determines which circle of hell they must go to by winding his tail around himself. Minos warns Dante of passing through but Virgil silences him. Dante encounters a dark place completely sucked of any light and filled with noises more horrible than a tempest and sees the souls being whirled around in a

vastness of life and he realizes that god is there to look after him and help him handle his

Before the printing press was established, persons known as “copyists” made a living of drawing or writing different types of manuscript books.

He never gave up hope and continued to find his way back home. He also shows loyalty to the god by not cursing them for all the harmful events that occur during his journey

The use of vivid imagery helps persuade the sinners to consider converting and to consecrate their lives in order to prevent suffering in the dreadful state.

While every person has a different depiction of Hell, Dante provides fascinating imagery of his portrayal, so the reader can truly experience the

How does the protagonist feel towards The Creator? (2 points) The “Fallen Angel” feels as if The Creator is to blame for his lame, boring, and depressing job he has in Hell. He states that he “hasn’t ever paid much notice” showing that he feels that The Creator doesn’t care about anyone in Hell and just made it and simply left forever afterwards. 5.

Finally, in his later years, he comes to understand that Heaven brings the process to an

One of the things present in that journey is the symbol of his sins that affect him later on when he turns into an adult. He was once a child and transformed into an adult when the time came for him to make the amend for the one

In 1350 the renaissance had begun, it was the time to bring back and restore many things from the past. Many people from the renaissance time tried to make a living on their own by painting and writing books. Although it seemed very hard to spread their ideas around the world but until 1444 their worries began to shrink. A man from Germany named Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which made possible for people to have copies of books and letters in much lesser time than they were used to. The invention of the printing press was one of most notable inventions from the last millennium because it brought very important changes and accomplishments in the whole world that we can still

A major theological problem exist as it related to Christ descending into hell to take the keys of death. Although the Apostle’s Creed points out that Jesus descended down into hel, His descent was not about suffering, but about a triumph victory over Satan. In order to ascertain the truth behind the afterlife, the validity of hell has to be established.

He learns about the injustice his people, Israelites, have suffered through, and uses the godly

He creates a world where the title character is stripped of everything he has and knows, to be solely judged on his merits. He was led to believe his life was his own and was shocked to learn otherwise. He learned to accept his death with little more than his good deeds and was accepted into heaven. The moral is that while a person may live a good life here on earth, with all the trappings, beauty and luxury one can have, it won’t matter in the end. Everyone from the wealthiest aristocrat to the poorest pauper will be judged on their acceptance of Christ and their good works.