Inferno

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno from The Divine Comedy, conveys his ideas and images of hell in one grand epic. The poem explains each circle of hell, who occupies these spaces, what sin they performed, and what endless punishment they received. The poem describes a dream that Dante has, where he is guided through these circles of hell with the great poet and author of The Aeneid, Virgil. Dante’s arrogance and egotistic personality are exposed in his extremely opinionated and bias poem. Dante is an important

On a trip through Hell, Dante and his guide Virgil journey through the different layers of Hell, observing the punishments of various famous sinners. In the poem “Inferno”, Alighieri describes his travels through Hell while justifying the contrapassos he assigned to different categories of sinners. He encounters many sinners in the other Circles, but spends much the poem describing the punishments and sins of the Falsifiers of circle Eight. In determining contrapassos, Alighieri used his own life

Alighieri, “The Inferno” demonstrates hell in its very nature, and the torment Dante visually experiences to achieve paradise throughout his journey. Dante Alighieri, born from 1265 to 1321, drew his inspiration of composing “The Inferno” from his deceased love, Beatrice, and anger towards his exile from Florence. Twenty years after his death, “The Inferno” received a half dozen commentaries. Although some may criticize and contradict Dante’s selection of the ranks of hell, “The Inferno” represents personal

The inferno by Dante is a story of faith, religious and moral beliefs with various elements, symbols and themes. Through this journey Dante is guided through hell and back by Virgil a symbolism of his teacher and a comrade philosopher like him. The three elements through out this story that seemed to stand out the most are the perfection of God's justice, evil as a contradiction to God's will, and the style of language. Solely based on moral beliefs Dante's poem is obviously a deeply Christian standpoint

people think of Hell, they usually picture a fiery burning Hell with the screams of sinners as a constant background noise.However, Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy and more specifically The Inferno, had a completely different idea of Hell; an icy version of Hell. Dante wrote The Inferno after being exiled from the catholic church, and all of Italy. Throughout the piece, the reader sees many different people that personally hurt Dante placed in one of his 9 rings of Hell. Each Level of

In Dante Alighieri's The Inferno, the themes of justice and eternity are interwoven throughout Dante's journey. As he wrestles with questions of pity, grace, and forgiveness, readers do the same. With each encounter with sinners, views of justice and God's mercy are questioned. Dante's Hell judged people in terms of their actions, not their hearts. Just because they had affairs or were hypocritical, they were sent to Hell. Their judgement was not weighed by whether or not they believed in Christ

In Canto XV Dante and Virgil leave the suicide forest and begin their trek towards the Great Cliff when they encounter the ring of sand that houses the sinners that were violent against nature. The punishment for the sodomites is heavily influenced by the cultural view of homosexuality in the medieval ages. They went ‘against nature’ and performed an act against the community and God by having sexual relations that wouldn’t result in a procreation. Nature, in turn, sets its wrath upon them by raining

Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Critics, in particular, recognize the first canticle of the comedy, The Inferno, as an unequivocal masterpiece of visual and allegorical imagery. Dante very skillfully weaves figurative language with tangible physical descriptions to achieve an unparalleled poetic work that continues to have immeasurable influence on western literature to this day. Every aspect of The Inferno is gravid with endless symbolism specifically referencing mankind’s sins and the subsequent retributions

The Development of Dante the Pilgrim in Inferno Perhaps the most interesting character in Dante’s Inferno is Dante the poet. A character who finds himself in a dark wood because of an undisclosed past sin and must journey through hell to escape. Although his character is somewhat undefined in the beginning of the text, his reactions and actions taken in the inferno slowly develop him into a character the audience can relate to. In the early cantos of Inferno, Dante appears to be a very cowardly man

heart of a poet, whether it be romance, adventure or simply a story from experiences. And perhaps there are no better poets that are better able to drag their willing audience along a journey than Homer and Dante. The epic tales of The Odyssey and Inferno, respectively, were seemingly written along a parallel train of thought when describing their characters journey, easily engaging the creative functions of the reader with adventurous tales of hope and adventure. Their characters, Odysseus and Dante