Category: Dante Alighieri

Dantes Inferno is an undeniably Christian text, as it catalogs various types of earthly sinners and describes the torments they experience in Hell. The poem is the first part of Dantes three-part religious project, The Divine Comedy, which goes on to illustrate Christian Purgatory and Heaven. Inferno, however, is much more than a mere dramatization…

The Divine Comedy written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was published in 1320 a year before his death. The long narrative is written in the format of a poem, which is divided into three parts and explores the journey of Dantes alter ego and his fictional self which exists within the poem is in…

Dantes The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem that depicts the realms of the afterlife. It is comprised of three parts with Inferno(hell) being the first. Dante’s Inferno is based upon the idea of mortality and divine justice. In this part, he creates his own hell made up of nine different levels, each for various…

The use of symbolic retribution, a punishment that is symbolized by the crime that was committed, is found throughout Dantes Inferno. In Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Dante is first found in a dark forest where he encounters three different animals. After avoiding the different animals he is led through the nine layers of hell by…

A place where sinners, who voluntarily chose their sin and fail to repent who fail to repent, linger it what is know to be Hell. In The Inferno of Dante, the speaker Dante, unless otherwise stated, finds himself in the midst of the underworld, despite being alive. Dante knows this journey through hell is one…

After a perilous journey through a savage forest, Dante reaches the foot of a hill and desperately desires to climb it: ‘After I had a little rested my weary body, I took my way along that deserted slope, so that my halted foot was always the lower’ (28-30). In the act of walking, Dante describes…

Dante built his version of hell utilizing equal measures of Roman Catholic doctrine and his own personal perspective regarding his guilt or sins of the people he positions there. Dante had been involved in a political battle in Florence and in losing it, he had been banished from the city. Aristotle is one character who…

Religion is and has always been a prominent portion of individuals lives. The bible and other religious text guide followers on how to avoid the suffering of Hell. In The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, produces a physical interpretation of Hell and the result of each sinner would receive because of their sins. Dante the…

Latin texts have always touched on the topic of afterlife due to the close knitted relationship with God and Christian belief. The Underworld, Heaven and Hell have always been interpreted in different ways, each influenced by contextual ideologies or religious factors within those preceding times. One can determine the Divine Comedys significant societal expectations through…