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Contrast of Realism in More and Dante


By this point, according to strict and corrupted rules of Church, these seem to be same as Islamic predictions and beliefs of Fra Dolcino's community are considered as "perverted" according to 14th century Christianism. Hz. Muhammed also says that Fra Dolcino will "soon follow" (Dante, Inferno, Canto XXVIII, p.21) in Hell, and that gives a sense of reality to Christian reader by having a real and able-to-see example of Fra Dolcino about the punishment of leaders of schism. Since Hz. Muhammed was the first responsible man of creating a new religion instead of improving Christianity and also, Fra Dolcino was a more familiar example of leaders of schism to the reader, Fra Dolcino should be sentenced to the most painful punishment like Hz. Muhammed. This punishment as the Church predicts is too hard and painful therefore to 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 in the same time interval.
             Substance that Dante used is Fra Dolcino who was known as a heretic and sentenced to the death by the Church, and also lived in the same time of Dante. Therefore, even this text generally talks about an illusion of Hell, a reference from a "wicked" in Hell to a real person known as heretic makes the connection of Dante's ideas to the real world in the minds of readers who are Catholics and strongly forced to be faithful to Church. The process of reality effect can be established that reader shall realize that both of them are performers of same sin according to Church, therefore the illusion is a view of real Hell.
             Besides the religious struggle of Dante, Thomas More has a different way of affecting reader with his words. Even though Raphael's story about the country of Tallstoria seems to be very artificial, there are strong points of different aspects that may leave some question marks that this kind of a country can be real.


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