Category: Dante Alighieri

  • The Divine Comedy’: Dantes Interpretation of Hell

    The Divine Comedy’: Dantes Interpretation of Hell 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…

  • Inferno And The Real World

    Inferno And The Real World 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…

  • The Sinners In Dante’s Inferno

    The Sinners In Dante’s Inferno 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…

  • Sinners And Punishments In Hell Due To Dante

    Sinners And Punishments In Hell Due To Dante 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.…

  • The Effects Of Sin On Humanitys Moral Disposition In Dantes Inferno

    The Effects Of Sin On Humanitys Moral Disposition In Dantes Inferno 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…

  • Analysis of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ and His Criticism of the Church: Critical Essay

    Analysis of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ and His Criticism of the Church: Critical Essay 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…

  • The Features Of Dante’s Hell

    The Features Of Dante’s Hell 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.…

  • The Divine Comedy’: Dantes Interpretation of Hell

    The Divine Comedy’: Dantes Interpretation of Hell 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…

  • Inferno And The Real World

    Inferno And The Real World 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…

  • The Sinners In Dante’s Inferno

    The Sinners In Dante’s Inferno 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…