Dante’s Inferno and Thousand and One Nights have many similarities that are paralleled in the aspect of religion and morals. They both are represented by two different cultural backgrounds, but the lessons that are revealed are the same. Within the two writings the main topic and lessons to be learned is love and mercy. Thousand and One Nights are represented by the Islamic culture. It has many moral lessons and important spiritual enlightenment. The telling of stories is one way that morals were taught. This is why Scheherazade told many stories unto the king. The story points to the belief in the healing and restoration. Scheherazade uses wisdom by storytelling to deceive the king into thinking differently about killing her. …show more content…
In this writing love is most important and go hand in hand with Christianity. Dante and Virgil travel from the outward circles to the lowest circles of the Inferno. When he encountered the circles he came across seducers, which can be paralleled with the power that a woman has with her soothsaying words. Scheherazade in Thousand and one nights was able to take the king’s mind off of murdering her. Also when Dante meets the two unfaithful lovers, there consequences were gruesome in hell, likewise when the king’s first wife betrayed him she was murdered a gruesome death by him. Dante’s journey shows him the moral truth and the consequences of being disobedient to that truth. Going through Hell, Dante is shown the worst sins and transgressions that defile the truth. Lucifer is placed at the very end of his journey through Hell because he represents ultimate choice of sin and deception. Satan’s punishment is the worst of all the sinners in Hell. He represents evil, and his punishment is the greatest of all the sinners. After going through all the circles of the Inferno, he goes to the Purgatory where he sees those who wait on their help. Dante at the end experiences love, truth, and
Dante’s Inferno creates an imaginative comparison between a soul’s sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives in Hell. Christian themes in Dante’s inferno would be wisdom and knowledge of the horrors of Hell, compassion and forgiveness, and the perfection of God’s justice.
There is a balance in life between actions and consequences. Literary devices in The Devine Comedy help in the development of themes in the Novel. Dante Alighieri’s book tries to convey the message of karma. The use of plot, conflict, imagery, juxtaposition, and motif reveal themes of justification and punishment in Dante’s Inferno.
“The Inferno” was written in the early fourteenth century by Italian politician Dante Alighieri, the book is the first part of the epic poem the “Divine Comedy” and it is followed by “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso”. The book “Inferno”, which is the Italian translation for Hell, narrates the journey of its author through what he believes is Hell, consisting of nine circles of suffering underneath the earth. In his journey Dante is guided through the nine regions by the poet Virgil, who represents Human Reason, each circle in the book represents a different type of sin with a different type of punishment, varying according to the degree of offense they committed in life. In his trip through every one of these circles, Dante realizes and emphasizes the perfection of God’s Justice and the seriousness of each offense towards the creator of all life. Certainly, Dante as a Christian realizes the perfection of God’s justice; he is able to create a connection between a soul’s sin on Earth and the punishment
These two sinners tell Dante a woeful tale of love and betrayal through their tears. Francesca, the woman who tells the story seems so pitiful and sad, not because of what she had done, but because she is in Hell. Francesca says that she is in hell unjustly because she loved the man she is now spinning in an eternal wind with. Dante believes her wholeheartedly and is sucked into her sob story. The readers other the other hand, know better.
Dante’s trip is representative of humanity’s shared moments of weakness and descent into sin. From the start, sins are presented as dark woods that accompany a righteous path, which Dante has wandered off of. Ascending from the darkness and into light brings hope and acceptance of God and His way. Yet, the obstruction of Dante’s acceptance by the three beasts shows he is still unworthy for Heaven, so he must travel through Hell with the hope of gaining knowledge and understanding of sin. By climbing into the light — or emerging unscathed and learning about, as well as coming to terms with, the wrongdoings of society — Dante will be able to prove his faith and some sort of worth.
Often when we set out to journey in ourselves, we come to places that surprise us with their strangeness. Expecting to see what is straightforward and acceptable, we suddenly run across the exceptions. Just as we as self‹examiners might encounter our inner demons, so does Dante the writer as he sets out to walk through his Inferno. Dante explains his universe - in terms physical, political, and spiritual - in the Divine Comedy. He also gives his readers a glimpse into his own perception of what constitutes sin. By portraying characters in specific ways, Dante the writer can shape what Dante the pilgrim feels about each sinner. Also, the reader can look deeper in the text and examine the feelings that Dante, as a writer and exiled Florentine, may have felt about his particular characters. Dante shows through his poetry some admiration for certain sinners, as if in life he had reason to respect their actions on earth, only to mourn their souls' fate. In the case of Pier Delle Vigne, it is clear that Dante wishes to clear the name of the damned soul that has been conscripted to hell for the shame of unjust dishonor.
Dante’s Divine Comedy is a multi-layered epic, containing not only a story about his incredibly difficult journey from earth to the depths of hell then up to the peaks of heaven, but it also contains many insights on theology, politics, and even his own life. Broken into three canticles—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—the work is written in the terza rima form. In Inferno—in 33 Cantos—Dante makes a vast journey through the nine circles of hell. In the Eighth Circle (specifically, the Ninth Pouch), Dante meets with those who “were, when alive, the sowers of dissension” (Inf. XXVIII.35-36). Dante encounters a myriad of characters in many realms of interest, including theological and political figures.
In the Muslim community, destiny is considered part of the important moral standard of obeying and submitting to God. Consequently, the idea of predestination is a recurring theme in The Thousand and One Nights. These stories, including Aladdin’s Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and The Three Apples, all share similar concepts of the power of fate and predestination. In each story, the main characters are given several opportunities to change their fates. However, in order for the characters to succeed, they must take advantage of their situations. In The Thousand and One Nights, even though destiny partially accounts for the fates of the characters, it is also important that the
“One thousand and one nights” is a book collection of stories from the Islamic Golden Age.
The Thousand and One Nights is a combination of stories that were put together over hundreds of years ago. As time evolved it has maintained its original moral that used many literary devices to explain it. The frame tail or overall story in The Thousands and One Nights is the story of King Shahrayar. King Shahrayar brother Shahzaman found his wife in the arms of one of their kitchen boys. Hurt and with rage he killed his wife and the kitchen boy, and fled went to his brother's kingdom. While at his brother's kingdom, he was very depressed until one night he saw his brother wife sleep with a slave. Of course King Shahrayar was
In the book, A Thousand and One Nights, I was able to perceive the anger the men in the readings hold against women, specifically their wives. The women hold this power to them, that they are able to win the hearts of men, but eventually do something to anger them. The women have this way of persuading the men to have sex with them, or do another favor, but the women cast a spell if they are not pleased.
In The Inferno, Dante explores the ideas of Good and Evil. He expands on the possibilities of life and death, and he makes clear that consequences follow actions. Like a small generator moving a small wheel, Dante uses a single character to move through the entire of Hell's eternity. Yet, like a clock, that small wheel is pivotal in turning many, many others. This single character, Dante himself, reveals the most important abstract meaning in himself: A message to man; a warning about mankind's destiny. Through his adventures, Dante is able to reveal many global concepts of good and evil in humanity.
Dante’s Inferno presents the reader with many questions and thought provoking dialogue to interpret. These crossroads provide points of contemplation and thought. Dante’s graphic depiction of hell and its eternal punishment is filled with imagery and allegorical meanings. Examining one of these cruxes of why there is a rift in the pits of hell, can lead the reader to interpret why Dante used the language he did to relate the Idea of a Just and perfect punishment by God.
The Thousand and One Nights and Arabian Nights comes in the Middle Eastern and Western origin. The stories gathered from different cultures in India, China, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece. The Thousand and One Nights and Arabian Nights give triumph to fables bring heroes and heroines with moral lesson to life. “King Shahryar and his brother, Shahzaman believe women are treacherous” (Byatt, 1). “This led Sultan with every new wife to be executed by the next morning “(Byatt, 1). Until Shahryar married Shahrazade this man’s mind and heart begin to change with her 1,001 nights of stories. The tales will explore aspects similarities personality of the characters, comparison Western and Eastern stories, and moral message helps the reader to understand the purpose.
As he finds the realm of the Lustful, Dante gets taken aback when he listens to the tale of two ill-fated lovers, Paolo and Francesca. Dante becomes sympathetic and emotional, saying, “I was swept by such a swoon as death is, and I fell, as a corpse might fall, to the dead floor of Hell” (Alighieri.V.138-140). Despite only being in the second circle of Hell, Dante feels the most pity towards the sinners here. This illustrates his naivety in learning about the evils of sin, but Virgil remains silent so Dante will learn the hatred by himself. He is simply starting from the beginning, and no human is without error. He...