Divine name

Gabriella Savino Western Civilizations I: Ancient December 6, 2015 Professor Gradie The Continuing Relevance of Dante’s The Divine Comedy The colloquia, The Timeless Relevance of Dante spoke about the continuing importance of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. It was a text that inspired artists and reflected heavily on the major questions of living life, such as, its meaning and its virtue. Professor Joseph Nagy (English) spoke on Dante’s love story, Professor June-Ann Greeley (Theology & Religious

My family of five is blessed to have unique names that are quite different from the common “Sams” and “Johns” floating around the United States. However, it is not the tongue twister names that confuse people as they get acquainted with my family. When I share the names to others, I never fail to baffle people at the end of my list, Heonsu, Misug, Onyoo, Youngeun, and Sarah. “Sarah?” they exclaim. “Wait, what? Why is her name different?”. Every time this occurs, I am forced to explain in my practiced

In the play “The Importance of being Earnest”, screenwriter Oscar Wilde explores the theme of wordplay and dramatic irony. Mr. Wilde is a talent poet with multiple written works under his belt, as stated on the site WWW.wilde-online.com. He was a Victorian writer that did poke fun at his own culture with his satirical writing style. From his writing, he is using humor to critique the attitude of the standards of the socialites around him. This is especially true with “The importance of being Earnest”

parents decide to named me Yi Ling. My name, Yi Ling Ni, represents me fairly well in some ways of my life, but as I grew up, I found myself pondering; why was I named this name? My name was chosen before I was born. Knowing that we were twin girls, my parents thought of names that would fit for twins. After consulting with my grandparents, known to be very wise when it came to Chinese characters and poetry; the names Yi Wen and Yi Ling were chosen. The Ling in my name is a Chinese character that represents

Wang Si Yu is my foreign exchange student who has lived with me for the past year. Her name, Si Yu, means rain and was chosen for her because her parents thought it sounded beautiful. However, I know her as Ella. When she came to America to complete her junior and senior years of high school she chose an english name. We went through a complex naming process but she finally decided on Ella because that was the easiest for her to pronounce. Ella is from North East China, a province called Harbin.

it is widely known as the most noble manifesto of Italian poetry (Hede, p.34), and the most perfect expression of the sweet new style, a mostly candid and ingénue story of Dante's love for the Florentine Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s name became synonymous with The Divine Comedy. The writer began to write his masterpiece since 1307, before his exile years, and it was the capital work that Dante has developed until the last moment of his

tellers are found everywhere in the archipelago. It is ironic that there are dozens of fortune tellers in front of the Quaipo Church when it is supposed to be a house of God and place of worship, not a place of sin. In keeping with Dante's theme of Divine Retribution, the Fortune Tellers and Diviners have their heads on backwards, their tears ran down their backs, and down the between the cleft of their buttocks . These are the souls who, on Earth, tried to see too far ahead of them, and thus will

Poetic justice is a literary device that allows one to see how evil is punished and how good works are rewarded. In the Divine Comedy, it is revealed that in Heaven and Hell there is good and evil will both be punished or rewarded justly. The story follows Dante and how he witnesses poetic justice, which is exercised in every part of the Divine Comedy. Hell is emphasized as being the penalty for evil. Purgatory contains those who were a mixture of both good and evil, and they are reconciled and

The Hell depicted by Dante Alighieri in the Inferno, the first part in his epic The Divine Comedy, is one full of endless suffering and torture brought on by a completely wrathful God. This is not the place of God’s divine and perfect justice that Dante attempted to construct, but rather one that almost glorifies torture as not only the most effective form of punishment, but the most fitting and just one. The way in which the different circles of Hell are so brutally described make it very hard to

and a life of sin was to be sentenced to hell. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, who had an admirable depth of spiritual vision and was known for his intelligence (Encarta, 1). Between the years of 1308 and 1321, Dante wrote the epic poem, 'The Divine Comedy,'; which described a journey through the afterlife. It takes place during the three days of Good Friday, when Jesus died, and on Easter Sunday when he rose body and soul to heaven. It is a moral comedy, and was written to make readers evaluate