The Allegorical Journey In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy

These characters are the uniting factors, because they interact with each other and are part of each others life later within the novel. Both John and Bernard have feelings for Lenina and vice versa. Their lives are intertwined, but Huxley also explores the separate part of each character’s life. This form of plot within the novel is similar to a parallel plot structure, with each character’s plot being shown alternately, but it is more episodic due to the fa... ... middle of paper ... ...iduals deemed normal in the “brave new world”. When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, he created an intriguing and effective novel, designed to captivate the audience and provide them with a story that is easy to digest, even though it is complex.

Throughout his journey, Dante comes across many familiar names and faces. Some of them recognize Dante, and try to share their stories. Dante shows remorse for some of these souls, but understands that their punishments are well deserved. He realizes that feeling sorry for them is useless because it is their own... ... middle of paper ... ...commit, so that we may fix our mistakes and stop ourselves from repeating them. Dante challenges himself on his journey through hell to face these sins like we do in everyday life.

He has finally understood how to hate sin. Dante has come far. From bouts of pity to disgraceful insults, he realizes the way to act in the face of sin. The sinners deserve no mercy, just more torture. This philosophy is what Dante needed through his journey of Hell to get closer to his faith.

He is hoping that God wants them to realize this and will allow them back into heaven for admitting that He is superior. Belial's argument is the complete opposite of Moloch's in that he believes in repentance, not revenge. Mammon disagrees totally with Belial's argument. He thinks that because they have been banished from heaven and become so obviously hideous, there is no longer any place for them there. He believes that they are forever banished to Hell and they should make the most of their situation.

Dante writes these future-seers as, “For backward to the kidneys turned the face, and backward always did they have to go, as they had lost sight of the things ahead.”(Dante 20.13-15). To earn just against the future-seers, Dante writes them as having their heads facing backwards on their bodies so they can never see ahead, or more importantly, the future. Dante writes them being punished base on their fraudulent act, specifically this punishment for this sin. This supports the theory that Dante wrote based on his belief of divine justice. In the remaining cantos, Dante loosely bases the retribution of the sinners on their specific damnation.

He may be trying to say that Heaven ... ... middle of paper ... ...ngel before he defied God and was renamed Satan. He is depicted with three heads and six wings with his lower half permanently frozen in place. Sayers notes, “Satan is impotent, ignorant, and full of hate, in contrast to the all-powerful, all-knowing, and loving nature of God.” (Canto XXXIV). Dante learns to come to terms with his previous sins and lets the past be what it may. After experiencing Hell firsthand, he does not plan on returning.

It has meaning beyond the literal sense, and encourages Dante to finish his tour through the Inferno. In one sense, Virgil is chiding Dante for wanting to call it quits when he has come so far. In another sense, Virgil convinces Dante to get up and continue because he is so close to finishing. In a last sense, Virgil is hinting that Dante has a long way to go, and stopping here won’t benefit him at all. Underneath all that, Dante the poet wrote that as a little bit of self-motivation to get the drive to finish the Inferno.

Dante felt impelled to write the Inferno because he was going through his own personal struggles at the time. In a way he was extremely depressed because he was exiled out of Florence, and the love of his life Beatrice died. While Dante was in exile for so many years, it allowed him to write some of his most significant works of literature that people still read to this day. Dante begins his struggle when he becomes lost in the dark forest and then later finds himself in the deep depths of hell with Virgil. “Everyman—that is, any human being—finds himself in the dark state of sin and error after having wandered from the true moral course established by God” (Rudd 10).

Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is said to be the single greatest epic poem of all time. The opening story of the character of Dante the Pilgrim is told in the first of the three divisions: The Inferno. The Inferno is a description of Dante’s journey down through Hell and of the several degrees of suffering and many mythical creatures that he encounters on the way. Throughout his travel Dante displays many different feelings and actions but the emotion that summarizes the entire poem is fear. While some of his character traits change as his mind matures and acknowledges the justice being carried out, from the very beginning until the final Canto, his fear does not subside.

These symbols are usually emphasized because of their meaning to the story and because of how the author intends them to be read by the audience. The mood/atmosphere is the general impression given off from the setting. It constructs how the readers view the story. Eudora Welty amazingly captured the familial connection and love as well as the courage that Phoenix contains. The setting is crucial to the full understanding and meaning of a