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            Dante's Inferno takes mankind on a frightening journey through the depths of hell.
             exhausting journey proves to be an invaluable lesson in restoration of the Church, which was in a corrupt state.
             The physical ends of the journey are to strengthen the pilgrim's body for the upcoming and rigorous ascent on.
             mount purgatory. The intellectual ends of the journey, however, are far more beneficial to the human soul. Man.
             must first understand the foundations of sin before he can hope to climb the mountain of salvation; it is only by.
             climbing down Lucifer's grotesque body, i.e. grappling with sin itself, that the pilgrim is able to reach the.
             mountain of Purgatory. On his voyage through hell, Dante shows the effects of the sin on the sinner's soul.
             through their punishments; each punishment is relative to the sin. Dante symbolizes the effects of sin on the soul.
             by using variations of a constant motion to punish the sinners in the circle of the lustful and the round of.
             sodomites. Dante presents the second circle of hell as the pitiful realm of the lustful, in which the souls are blasted.
             by a wind storm "eternal in its rage"(V.31). The lustful, like all sins of incontinence, makes "reason slave to.
             appetite" (V.39). The lustful never truly commit themselves to a concrete relationship; they just flow freely from.
             one person to the next. (i.e. there are no strings attached) The lustful are so easily swept of their feet that they.
             are forever being swooned. The carefree lifestyle the lustful practice leaves no room for self-direction. Thus, the.
             image of the harsh winds incessantly whirling the souls symbolizes the how the lustful deprived themselves of.
             self-direction. The soul is turned from its proper nature when the soul deceives itself into thinking that it does not.
             have the power of self-direction. The sodomites, like the lustful, have allowed themselves to become powerless.


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1. Dante's Purgatorio XV - a close review

... of God's Divine Love is illuminated through the splendor of light and its reflection. The emphasis on the reflecting power of this Divine Light is Dante-the-Poet's way of expressing the importance of spreading God's Love in order to overcome and purge ourselves of the darkness of our sins. ... of the location and movement of the "spera", the sun. The movement, or constant flow, of the sun across the sky is a reflection of Dante's own journey through purgatory. It is exactly "mid-afternoon", and more precisely, it is three o"clock in the afternoon. The Trinitarian reference is used ... ...

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2. Dante

... the worst sins (Witt, 325). The worst of all sins, the traitors to God and country, are overseen by Satan himself. Hell, as described by Dante, consists of dark and frightening abysses between gigantic rocks; steaming, stinking marshes, lakes, and streams; storms of hail, rain, snow, and fire; tortured ... another (Durant, 1071). The fifth circle contains the wrathful that wallow in mud and in their rage bite each other and themselves. As Dante and Virgil continue they arrive in the city of Dis. The city holds those who were heretics. Coffins line the city with the ... left face, black w...

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3. The Spirtitual Journey's of Dante and Augustine

... and methods of teaching. They make many mistakes and are affected by various temptations, but they learn from their sins and temptations while gaining maturity and understanding. These stories represent Dante and Augustine's lives' to becoming faithful Christians. Augustine became a very influential educator and a passionate spiritual leader. Manichaeanism, "a dualistic religion that resembled early Christianity in emphasizing the life of the ... circle is "where the gluttons are punished." (Alighieri, VI) They are punished by hail rain and snow, which represents personal degradation. I...

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4. Dante and Aristotle - Ethical Frameworks

... their emotion over reason with regard to sexual desires: Semiramis was so vulnerable to her sexual desires that she ignored all laws and was unable to regulate her desires. Both Dante and Aristotle condemn those who are ruled by desire. Aristotle posits that overindulgence is antithetical to notions of moderation. The virtuous person is moderate and since gluttony is a fundamentally ... in the third circle of Hell through vivid imagery and symbolism. The image of the gluttonous lying sightless and heedless symbolizes the empty and selfish sensuality of their lives. Furthermore, Dante w...

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5. Dante the Pilgrim and Poet

... with the Circle of the Lustful. He meets Francesca and Paolo, two lovers trapped for eternity because their forbidden love. Dante the Pilgrim really shows his poetic side, by fainting after meeting them. Dante's poetic side and adoration for an epic love, clouds his sense of reason. He does not see the souls as ... that book and he who wrote it, too: that day we read no more," (Canto V 137-138). Dante shows kindness to these souls, but as he progresses he will see the wretchedness of sin. Dante begins to lose some of his compassion beginning in Circle V. Here, the wrathful are striking at...

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6. Dante's Inferno

... sinners receive punishment in perfect proportion to their sin; to pity their suffering is to demonstrate a lack of understanding. While traveling through the dark wood, Dante has lost his path and wanders onward through the forest. He comes across a mountain where the sun beats down, while attempting to climb three beasts ... one, but in the end they will reach Heaven. Virgil claims it was Beatrice and two other holy women sent him to maneuver Dante's travels. Beatrice being Dante's love. Virgil begins Dante's quest through the gates of Hell. The gates marked with an unforgettable inscrip...

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7. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

... , for example, defines human reason as the highest state man can achieve without God and observes that it distinguishes man from other life forms, but Dante provides a modified explanation that a man of reason cannot achieve a greater state without God's glory; by placing man before God, Aristotle can achieve ... together in hell for their adultery and calls to them to speak on their side of their story (Raffa). Saddened by their love story, Dante fainted with compassion and fell to the floor as Paola wept at Francesca's side (Alighieri 135-140). Nevertheless of the lovers' tragic, hear...

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8. Dante's Inferno - Critical Narrative

... the crime itself. Kameen states that, "Each sinner suffers a different severity based on his or her unique sins" (Kameen). This is where Dante comes into play. For example, the third circle of Hell is for the gluttonies. "More often than not, however, the punishment is much more ... their might and their burden. It is that effect of mirroring the sin that defines contrapasso" (Phung). Phung is defining what he thinks Dante is trying to portray with his said punishments. Phung agrees with this so called symbolic punishment when he states, "Contrapasso gains its strength ... , and how in ...

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9. Dante

... city with a growing middle class. But due to opposing forces in the military, middle class, and the Church, the chaos stopped Florence from having a peaceful community. Dante was born into a Guelf family. He was well educated for his time. As a young man he was in two military wars, and then in 1300 became a ... happily, in heaven. His journey's climax is a vision of God. His poem is most complemented for his symbolic meanings behind each of the cantos. Dante's imaginary voyage can be understood as the purification of one's soul and of the achievement of inner peace through the guidance ...

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10. Thematic Essay on Dante's Inferno

... the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering depending on what you did and serves as different levels of punishment and along in this journey, Dante understands the soul towards God along with the Inferno describing the nine circles of hell being Lucifer, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, ... throwing a gift back in God's face and the gift being life because you are destroying God's creation. There are different types of love that Dante shows but Dante also expresses a selfish type of love in the third circle of Hell of Gluttony and in the fourth circle of Gr...

  • Word Count: 1077
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