Dante Alighieri

our universe is governed. The belief of karma is that there is a balance in life between actions and consequences. In other words, what goes around comes around. Literary devices in The Divine Comedy help in the development of themes in the Novel. Dante Alighieri’s book tries to convey the message of karma. There is never a wayward action that goes without punishment in the book. The use of plot, conflict, imagery, juxtaposition, and motif reveal themes of justification and punishment in…

who wanted good for their society, including Dante Alighieri, who wrote the epic poem The Inferno. In the epic, Alighieri creates his own structure of Hell and names a protagonist after himself, Dante. Dante experiences all the horrors of Hell with his guide Virgil, who is portrayed as the symbol of human reason. This is not only…

Within the opening lines of the first canto Dante writes “Midway upon the journey of our life/ I found myself within a forest dark,/ For the straightforward pathway had been lost” (Alighieri 1. 1-3). This passage shows that Dante is suffering a mid-life crisis and that he is searching for a spiritual answer to help him find himself within the dark forest. The third line referring to the straightforward pathway being lost is talking about how Dante has become lost in life. Emotionally and…

Inferno by Dante Alighieri is about his experience visiting sinners, and descending through Hell. Even though the sinners are in Hell for a reason, they tend to believe that they are not deserving of their sins. They blame others for their logical punishments. Lust is in the incontinence section of Hell. Francesca, the main sinner of Canto V, convinces Dante that she isn’t entirely deserving of the punishment, but she also reveals her true character through her diction and allusions. Dante…

The Comedy Illuminating Florence is a oil on canvas painting by Domenico di Michelino created in 1456. The painting depicts Dante Alighieri along the city of Florence, Mount Purgatory, the Earthly Paradise and the Celestial Spheres. Domenico di Michelino, an Italian painter, born in Florence, primarily depicted scenes from the Bible. It is not surprising then that like many other artist, Dante's Divine Comedy called to him and like many other artists, he attempted to paint Dante's words on…

What is the punishment for sins committed in one’s life? Dante attempts to answer this question in Inferno, the first section of The Divine Comedy. In this section, Dante travels through the different layers of hell and observes the people and their punishments in each circle. Alighieri’s Inferno attempts to assign punishment to each sin. However, his punishments are not assigned haphazardly. As Dante travels through the first three layers of punishment in hell, he observes the symbolic…

Dante has shown the process of redemption through the course of his writings of The Devine Comedy. This is a natural process that he has taken the time to work thought and explain thorough his description of a trip venturing through the areas of Hell, Purgatory, and finally Paradise. The works show the effects of life on a person and what can be achieved if they focus on reaching up to return to God through their life. Life has it tendency to bog us down and disrupt our trip back to God with…

in both literature and life. This is the very case when taking into regard one of the greatest epic poems of world literature, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The theme of greed holds the potential to be one of the most dominant sins represented within the Inferno. Throughout the poem, the concept of sin follows the character Dante through his journey into hell. Alighieri describes the Inferno as a place for sins to be acknowledged and punished accordingly amongst the nine circles that separate…

The systematic eventuation of a revelation is what resonates in the individual 's mind, more-so than the actual event of the discovery itself. Dante Alighieri 's epic, The Divine Comedy (Inferno), and William Shakespeare 's play, The Tempest, coalesce in articulating the significance of one 's journey towards making discoveries. Dante 's guided venture into the depths of Hell, as well as Prospero 's manipulation of the events on the island, serve to convey the amount reflection and introspection…

The Divine Comedy is a three part series, written by Dante Alighieri, which describes the frustrations he felt, while in exile, pertaining to Florentine politics. The first part in the series, The Inferno, depicts Dante’s pilgrimage into the underworld of Hell. The epic describes Dante’s descent in an attempt to get back on a spiritual path. The Inferno was created with the purpose of telling the politics of Florence and combining ideas of Pagan and Greek religion (“Literary Background”).…