... . Two of those writers of pre-enlightenment age; Dante Alighieri and Thomas More, were using an image of "world" in their work for supporting almost same argument of an ideal community in different manners, therefore in different ways. Dante uses the reflection of his image of "Inferno" of his Christianity, to prove the dictations of the Church using religious and substantial reality effects that can ... overcome this punishment is "not easy to attain." (Dante, Inferno, Canto XXVIII, p.21) Besides this religious-reality effect, Dante provides a strong effect using a substance that existed...

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... "), is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "The Divine Comedy." It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. Allegorically, "Divine Comedy"  represents the journey of the soul towards God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin. The poem ... starts on Maundy Thursday in the year 1300. The narrator, Dante himself, is thirty-five years old, and ... ...

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Dante Alighieri, one of the most respected poets of all time, accomplished many things during his life; with his crowning achievement being the invention of the fourfold analysis method. The allegory of the literal, political, moral, and spiritual aspects of a work of literature can be quickly and easily derived with this method. As the creator of this method, it makes perfect sense that Dante ... the Inferno. These individuals are frozen up to their necks in ice, the cold symbolizing a lack of human love and warmth, which they denied others in life. But one question continuously plaguing sch...

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