... This description establishes a dark mood throughout the story. Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes the souls in Hell. Furthermore, Baglioni converses with Giovanni in this mansion chamber and tries to manipulate him in his ... This description establishes a dark mood throughout the story. Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inf...

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... instances of intertextuality. In "not as lost violent souls" " (15,16) Eliot wants to compare the hollow men to the "small-souled " people excluded from hell, from Dante's Cantos 31 and 32 in Dante's Inferno, who were not "lost " or "violent" enough and couldn't take sides between good and evil." The fifth and final section begins with "Here we go round the prickly ... ...

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