The Cantos

Test Four – A Modest Proposal and The Rape of the Lock Short answer questions: 1. Swift’s solution to Irish poverty is to eat babies. This will provide a source of food for the elite, income for the poor and a reduction in the number of mouths to feed. 2. Teenagers were not a good investment because they would only bring three to three and half pounds. The cost to feed and cloth them until up to that age was at least four times their value. 3. Slyphs were spirits of women who had been flirts in

When Dante the Pilgrim finally reaches the bottom of Hell in Canto 34 of the Inferno, the typical reader has enormous expectations for what lies down there. Following Dante’s structural logic of Hell, this is the last, deepest section dedicated to punishing the worst sinner, Satan. Doré approaches the task of depicting Satan with a metaphorical, underlying emotional treatment of the narrative. Doré’s illustrations are inspired by dark and gothic elements of Romanticism. His work dedicates focus to

undemanding awareness serves not only numerous of Inferno’s instants of impressive imagery and figurative power, but also serves to irradiate one of Dante’s foremost themes: the excellence of God’s righteousness. The dedication over the gates of Hell in Canto III unequivocally articulates that God was stimulated to construct Hell by Justice (III.7). Hell subsists to penalize depravity, and the aptnesses of Hell’s precise penalties testify to the celestial excellence that all sin violates. There are a magnitude

There are two types of power- spiritual and Earthly. Earthly power includes political power, wealth, tangible items, and worldly desires. Spiritual power includes free will, religious alignment, and spiritual desires. Many nouns define power, and power defines many nouns. Whatever the circumstance, some form of power is always present. Desire strikes a search for power. Dante writes “we live on in desire” implying that we live through desire (20). Each one of us chases a desire during our journey

“Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell.” (canterbury tales) Throughout the middle ages the church became more and more corrupt through four most leading issues. One betrays the main problems that caused the church to become corrupt. Two very significant perpetrators within the church that was a part of causing the downfall. Three many evil practices that led to corruptness in the people furthermore making

In early fourteenth century, Robert Manning of Brunne wrote a poem of an educational text informing people to avoid the seven deadly sins. Sometime later, in the late 1500s, Edmund Spenser wrote a book entitled The Faerie Queene and in Book 1, Canto 4, Spenser discusses the Seven Deadly Sins as the two characters, Redcrosse and Duessa, embark on their journey to the sinful House of Pride. Spenser has a unique way of which he alters to readers an artful conception of such a broad aspect

For scholars to recognize Dante’s Inferno as a politically influenced piece of work there needs be an understanding of a contemporary custom, Aristotelian in nature, which engaged political sensibility and moral principles concomitantly with an ethical conscience determined by the Catholic faith; all of these qualities were intangibly interwoven and could not be disconnected. Political actions were required to be guided by moral standards to permit human beings to live out Church approved virtuous

Belphoebe: An Ever Steadfast Love In Edmund Spenser’s epic poem, The Farrie Queene, Spenser utilizes the strategy of incorporating many subplots and characters to emphasize allegorical concepts; especially, themes concerning the gender roles of women. Characters such as Florimell, Britomart, Malecasta, and Belphoebe, create a spectrum that contains different types of chastity that is seen among women. For instance, Florimell’s chastity depicts a beautiful woman who is committed to her virtue of

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante narrates his descent and observation of hell through the various circles and pouches. One part of this depiction is his descriptions of the various punishments that each of the different sinners has received.  The various punishments that Dante envisions the sinners receiving are broken down into two types. The first type he borrows from various gruesome and cruel forms of torture and the second type, though often less physically agonizing, is Dante’s creative and imaginative

In this canto Dante addresses one of the great moral problems of Christianity, which was particularly pressing for Renaissance scholars who revered the Ancients. Baptism is necessary for salvation, but it seems essentially unfair that all the good people who lived before Christianity, or who never heard of it, should suffer for something over which they had no control. Dante solves this problem by keeping the good Pagans and infidels in Hell, but giving them a painless and honorable fate. Limbo is