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- 31: Dantes Inferno 2
- Michel De Montaigne, a fifteenth century French essayist once said that, "The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. (21st Century Dictionary of Quotation, 1993) In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conveys the concept that actions throughout life determine the quality of the afterlife. In various instances throughout his work, Dante shows the correlation between actions on Earth and the nature of eternal life. He views life on Earth as a long struggle where the worthiness of Heaven is established. He believes that the path to eternal happiness is not direct, and must be adequately proportioned with suffering. The true nature of the soul is conveyed through anguish. The struggle of spirit that Dante undergoes when entering Hell mirrors the trials that humanity faces. The author conveys that in order to persevere through hardship, the nature of evil must be learned and refused. By using Virgil as a ...
- 32: Comparing A Painting By Fra Filippo Lippi And Dante Gabriel
- Comparing a painting by Fra Filippo Lippi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti The two pictures are Rosettis Ecce Ancilla Domini and Lippis Annunciation. Both of the artists were influenced by their age. Lippi lived in Italy between 1406 and 1469 and Rosetti from ... on the walls of a salon or an Academy. This competition naturally led to a variety of styles. Some turned to history or exotic arts and others sought new ideas. One of such artists was Dante Gabriel Rosetti he turned against the neo-classical traditions of the Academy and looked for different inspiration. He wrote in 1901 that "an artist, whether painter or writer, ought to be bent upon defining and ...
- 33: Hidden Politics
- ... is the dynamic equation of Irish nationality, politics, and Catholicism. Ideally separate entities, these three qualities are inextricably intertwined. One of many instances depicting this occurred at the Dedalus' Christmas dinner, in an argument involving Dante Rioridan, Stephen's great-aunt, and Mr. Casey, a friend of the family. ---And can we not love our country then? asked Mr. Casey. Are we not to follow the man [Parnell] who was born to lead us? ---A traitor to his country! replied Dante
The priests were right to abandon him. The priests were always the true friends of Ireland. (201) As seen, Mr. Casey first links national fervor to politics with the rationale that in order to love their country, the Irish must also follow a specific politician, Charles Parnell. Dante's reply furthers the integration of ideals by linking religion to politics, through stating that the priests were right in abandoning Parnell in the political arena. Religion and Irish nationality are also linked when ...
- 34: Inferno
- By: Vova Vovochkin Although it is hard to read Dantes triple rhyme, I am thrilled by the Infernos ambiguity and allegoric power. It is really a three-dimensional art. Just like Picasso in his paintings, Dante makes me think about the meaning of the situations and their implications. Moreover, it is as visual as masterpieces of Picasso. Dante makes us believe in his narration involving our senses. This narrative poem astonishes me by the power of the language and by its mysticism. In the first canto we see Dante in the ...
- 35: Dante S Inferno 2
- ... churches, souls after death either are purified from venial sins or undergo the temporal punishment. The ultimate happiness of their souls is supposed to be thus secured. The second part of The Divine Comedy that Dante wrote is Purgatorio (Purgatory). If I was chosen to be God, sinners would be sent to neither hell nor heaven, instead they would stay on earth. No one would commit an iniquitous act and be ...
- 36: Darkness At Noon
- Dantes Inferno is one of the three parts of his Divine Comedy. The Inferno is divided into thirty-four cantos, each containing a description of a specific region of hell. Sinners in each area are ... for different sins. Sinners of lust suffer in upper hell, sinners of violence in middle hell, and the sinners of fraud in the lowest part of hell. The sufferings of these people are portrayed through Dantes eyes as he descends lower and lower into hell with Virgil, his helper. The punishment for each sinner corresponds to the sin that they committed. In Canto 18, Dante and Virgil travel into the First and Second Pouch of the eighth circle of hell, also called Malebolge. This region of hell is divided into ten parts, or "pouches", where sinners of "ordinary" fraud ...
- 37: The Divine Comedy
- ... It had its own government, courts, system of taxation, and laws. To live a good Christian life guaranteed access to heaven in the afterlife, and a life of sin was to be sentenced to hell. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, who had an admirable depth of spiritual vision and was known for his intelligence (Encarta, 1). Between the years of 1308 and 1321, Dante wrote the epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which described a journey through the afterlife. It takes place during the three days of Good Friday, when Jesus died, and on Easter Sunday when he rose body ... lost the straight path. Ah! How hard a thing it is to tell what this wild and rough and difficult wood was, which in thought renews my fear! (Alighieri, 1) This passage tells us that Dante is lost in the middle of the woods, and he is in the middle of his life. The reason he gives for being lost is that he had become inattentive and was not paying ...
- 38: She Works Hard for Her Money
- ... at most restaurants, severs are required to "tip out", or share a percentage of their tips with the bartender, busser, hostess or other members of the staff. After reading the interview of the waitress, Delores Dante, in Working, by Studs Terkel, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the attitudes of a career waitperson and those of a waitperson who has different aspirations and plans for the future ... Maureen Walsh who has been a server at various local restaurants for seven years. She is also a full-time college student, and will earn her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education this December. Delores Dante has been waiting tables in the same restaurant for twenty-three years (Terkel 279). After her marriage broke up, she started waiting tables because she needed fast money and didn't want to work an ... lot about people in her line of work, and enjoys talking to her customers. She invents ways to keep her job interesting, and likes to converse with her customers about a great number of topics. Dante says that giving service and being servile are two different things (Terkel 294). Delores Dante takes pride in her work, and aims to please all of her customers. She says that she does certain ...
- 39: Themes Of The Love Song Of Alf
- ... being labeled to paralyze his actions. Prufrock s character seems too pitiful to be tragic. Eliot does not directly say what the character Prufrock is feeling; instead he utilizes the works of others, such as Dante, to clarify his thoughts and his universe. The beginning of the poem is from Dante s Inferno. The original work describes a hellish place where spirits are in the forms of flames and the character is asked to describe his life. He tells his story only because he believes no one will hear it. By alluding to Dante s Inferno , Eliot has accomplished two things. The first was to set the tortured and torn tone of Prufrock s mind as well as the poem. The second was to hint at the theme; ...
- 40: Epic Works
- ... wife is besieged by suitors, his son is now a grown man and his country is facing certain civil war. In the final acts, order is restored with the assistance of the goddess Athene. In Dante's epic, The Divine Comedy, he tells of a journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. This epic is divided into three sections. In each of the sections he meets with mythological, historical, and contemporary individuals. Each individual encountered during the journey represents a religious or political symbol of fault or virtue. In addition, specific punishments and rewards are associated with each fault and virtue. Dante uses each punishment and reward to illustrate the larger meaning of human actions in the universal plan. Paradise Lost is considered by some to be one of the greatest poems in world literature and most ... an epic. Of the three epics only the Odyssey involved actions of great glory by the central hero. In the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost, the main characters are not fighting monsters or outwitting Cyclops. Dante walks through Hell, and views the fate of man, Adam and Eve are manipulated by God and Satan but are not gods nor do they have god- like qualities. The influence of the supernatural ...
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